Today is my college roommate’s thirtieth birthday. How did this happen? Nothing feels different yet I keep hearing that it is.
I’m not really sure how much aging actually happens after twenty-three. Up until that point I was highly developmental, a beta-testing adult with too little common sense. I might still lack common sense at times but I no longer feel like I’m changing much, at least not on the inside. Most of my friends seemed to plateau around the same point a few years back. Thirty is supposed to be a big deal but I’m not altogether sure why, other than it makes one consider how quickly the remaining years might fly by. True, responsibilities pile up over the years, and people get entrenched in careers and patterns and parenting, but I no longer see much shift in my friends’ personalities. I am not sure how to feel about this.
Are we boring?
Interesting observation. My own take on it is that I am surprised by how much I continue to change. I sort of expected this to end after those formative high school and college days, but it hasn't at all.
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