I'm 29 and turning 30 in October. I feel like I'm looking ahead and able to see the stop sign now, almost like I could have or should have done more in my life. Well, I DO have a child (a 3 year old) so I know I have done some things great.
Tell me, is it just me or is my age considered "old", or an age where I'm "past my prime". I don't know if other people feel this or if it is just me.
What steps could one take to regain thier psychological youth again, or should I forget about it and just focus on aging.
Perhaps, I have a problem here...somebody slap me or something, I don't know.
Get back. Any comments are appreciated.
2007-07-30 06:55:16 · 18 answers · asked by ? 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
If 50 is the new 30, you must be the new 10? Nah can't take you that far back so how about 18-21?.
You are not old - repeat after me. "I am not old". "I am no where near past my prime, I'm just getting my stride"
I turned 30 and 40 with no psychological change, it is a number just as the one I have this year. I turn 50 this year. I don't feel 50, I don't look 50, and even though most people I work with I could be their mother, I never think about it that way. Most of them think I'm only 41 or 42 so hey. I have no intention of slowing done. I keep up with my teenage kids and what is going on. I refuse to be what a '50' perception was from years gone by. I am what I am that is a number that hangs out there for record keeping purposes.
There are days I coulda, shoulda, woulda, but you know something - I have 30 years at least to go. There are society road blocks coming my way. But I am going forward and not give up or give in. I wish at 30 I had done some things a little different but can't look back just ahead.
But you do not have any of that yet. If you still want to do something - DO IT! I know people that have done amazing things after 40. Total changes in career, schooling, life style, everything. Don't fall into that trap of decades gone by. Quit focusing on aging. Why would you do that? You are not even at the halfway point. You maintain youth by living not doing steps, just by going out and living life. Always moving foward.
So get up, get out there, and go! Happy Birthday!
2007-07-30 07:14:29 · answer #1 · answered by Margaret K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I turned 30 in December and had mixed emotions. But I looked at it this way, and you should too: It's just a number. That's all it is. I feel no different then I did when I was 29, 25, 19, ok, well maybe a few extra aches and pains, but I've done so much of what I wanted to do in life, and I will do more, and more, and more, until I can't do anymore. That's my view on life, and I tend to forget my age. So hey, if you want to go rollerskating, or have a living room slumber party, or jump in the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese, just do it, I do!
2007-07-30 07:02:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Honey, very soon you won't be trusting anyone under 30. You haven't even come close to your prime yet. You're NOT aging, although because of that question I have serious doubts about your emotional maturity. You'll see. Did you know there's a whole world out there that kids have no part in, unless you actually produced them? And it's interesting and wonderful?
Print your question out and put it away for five years. Then take it out and wonder how could you have ever been so stupid.
2007-07-30 07:12:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with the last guy...you can always bounce back provided your giving it your best...while it may be more difficult to keep up now, it doesn't make the fact that you can get back into shape no matter what your age (unless something like paralization got in the way..but there's always God), so the next time you are feeling old (trust me I know what you are going through, I'm 28 now) just try to remember that somewhere there is an 80 yr. old man still jogging on a track to keep in shape...that's 50 years on you and I...just some thoughts.
2007-07-30 07:07:49 · answer #4 · answered by aldamixxmasta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck no! I didn't take life seriously until I turned 30! I was a single mom and just felt bad that I was no longer in my 20's, but it just gets better! It's never too late to go do new things, learn a new craft, go back to school, start another career, go sky-diving, whatever you want! I think you're just in a rut.
Do you do activities with your child? Go biking with a child seat on the back, take 'em rollerskating, go to the pool! Have a little fun. Do you have friends to go play with? You didn't mention if you're single or married. If you're single & there are singles groups near, go join one. You'll be amazed how much fun you can have! Good luck!
2007-07-30 07:07:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i turn 30 next year and i understand you, i feel like i should have accomplished more (i'm single & childless, i know hold back the gasps) but then i think about my friends in their 40's and my mom turning 50 who are saying the same things. Its time to throw out the preconceived ideas about who & what you are supposed to be just because of your age, do the things you enjoy & make the most out of your life your way, not by your ideas of what society thinks is appropriate....to be cliche, age isn't anything but a number :)
2007-07-30 07:14:00 · answer #6 · answered by wyatt.rebecca@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being in your thirties is a great time. You're no longer a kid, have nothing to prove to anyone and can act exactly the same as when you were a teenager without being told to grow up by your parents (or at least no get grounded for telling them to get lost or ignoring them).
Old is a state of mind and as the old saying goes you are only as old as you feel.
2007-07-30 07:08:08 · answer #7 · answered by segunitb1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(1) Someone wearing less than required amount of clothing - hence showing off their appealing body parts such as lean stomach, well-shaped legs, etc. (2) Someone who has a flirtateous attitude and talks in a sultry voice - only during "appropriate" times. And not all the times - that would be a whore/manwhore! (3) Something/Someone that can turn someone else on. (4) Kissable pink lips are sexy. :D
2016-05-17 23:03:26 · answer #8 · answered by thuy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hahaha, are you kidding? I am 21 and get sh*t for dating men your age. 30 isn't old. If you ask me that's the prim of your life because your not as likely to make stupid mistakes. Or live with your parents. By then you should know enough about the world to know its ups and downs and still enjoy it.
2007-07-30 07:03:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
To quote Paul Westerbeg:
I wake from a dream and I look for rain,
take an amphedimine and a crushed rat brain,
how am I feeing? Better, I suppose.
How an I looking? I don't wnat the truth.
What am I doing, I aisn't in my youth.
I'm past my prime, or was that juse a pose?
It's a Wonderful lie, I still get by on those.
30 is when we start living the wonderful lies.
I'm 38, trust me, it sucks.
Joe
2007-07-30 07:04:08 · answer #10 · answered by Joseph G 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋