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Oh god yes. The only thing I miss are the bands. While all my friends would be busy drinking their asses silly, I'd pull up a chair and just enjoy the live music. I still miss that, but nothing else about clubs/pubs appeals to me, especially since I don't drink.Quote:
Originally Posted by haohmaru
At 35, I don't feel any different than before. I still look young, have all my hair, and have most of the same interests. The biggest change for me is the complete lack of time now. :(
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Originally Posted by Melf
31 here. Still a head of black hair (one grey hair came a year ago and it got plucked) and looking nearly the same as I did when I was 25.
HOWEVER, my job forces me to work-out/run several times during the week, so that might have something to do with it.
The 30's isn't a big deal to me at all, since I still feel physically 20. Just less time for gaming and frivolous things that were important to me that I thought I'd be doing forever don't seem as important as they once were...and you know, I don't miss them one bit.
My priorities have change a lot.
Focus is more on others than it once was, and I find myself thinking seriously about the future, including all the Big Stuff (marriage, house, career, etc.) that never worried me when I was in my 20's. Part of this is youth, of course, and the silly notion that there's time for that later...
Well, now is later.
The best example of this are the choices I'm making re: my career. Not too long ago I was willing to go anywhere in the world to ply a trade, so long as it would be personally rewarding (read: sexy/cool), regardless of the side effects. All I wanted was a cool job that would make me happy. But now my definition of happiness includes other ppl. I will not work anywhere, doing only the most self-aggrandizing job. That definition of happiness (thinking of others) may be anathema to TNL but I believe it is a responsible, adult definition.
Today my career choices are purposefully limited and I will not sacrifice my relationships to do what feels good. With these (self-imposed) limitations has come freedom and, to a great degree, satisfaction. I am free to not worry about all that I am missing by limiting my career scope, and I am satisfied that I have chosen something that will be personally rewarding, not least because I serve others.
I'm 3 months shy of 30, and I haven't had so much fun since I was teenager and people decided that my being punk as fuck was cool. But I'm also far less responsible now than I was when I was a few years ago. I attribute some of that to spending all but 9 months of my twenties in 2 long term relationships, and now that I'm single I intend to stay that way for a while, and some of it to going back to working 'kid' jobs and playing music while I finish school (this is also odd, as none of the other students I've met know shit about the world I come from, and will also be a negative when job hunting at 35).
I am bald, but I have been since I was like 24 and it looks good on me. I'm in better physical shape than I've ever been, thanks to my job (185 lbs versus 230 6 months ago!) Most people think I'm 21-25.
One of the two big negatives I find is much more effort is spent on taking care of myself than before. Not just eating and exercising, but grooming. Odd hairs spring up in places and must be dealt with, I even have to pluck my ears now, and trim nose hair. I used to get much more life out of razor blades, and never got infected follicles or shit like that. Ever since my breakdown earlier this year, sleep has also become imperative.
The other is that many single women my age that I meet seem to have really kicked that 'husband/father-hunting' thing into overdrive, and I just don't really want that.
On the other hand, I feel like I have much more perspective on just how short life really is and how important it is to make the most of it than I used to. Happiness, satisfaction, and health are far, far more important than buying a house, a career with lifetime plan, a credit rating, or any of that shit. Fuck being a grown up.
I'm also more willing to change my mind about ideas I've held when proven flawed, and more resolute in holding the ones that prove true.
I haven't started going bald yet, on the flip side, I cannot grow a beard nor even a full goatee.
30 fucking five and all I got is Lip Service, Flavour Savor and Chin Music after a month of no shaving.
:(
My pecker still gets hard, I'll never take Viagra.
my hangovers are disasters. even if i'm not sick, i'm just physically wiped out.
I still like to go dancing with girls I've already met/am hooking up with but as far as clubs being a place to try to pick up girls, forget it. I only did that for like a year and it sucked then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
Dancing is hot.
I'm 3 years short of 30, but I'm pretty much planning for the big stuff, the debts, the house (or two) perhaps some bigger ticket spending items. But honestly living on $1500/mo between myself and my g/f I cannot see a happier life. I see my entire extended family, we eat amazing food, we socialize and such. I would like more art in my life, and a career but that comes later.