On Turning Thirty...

[geminigirl]

Someone asked me last week if I had any feelings on turning thirty (which I'll do on 5/27.)
I replied, "I don't, really. If I didn't have the wedding, and (other project which isn't public knowledge yet) I might be, but I'm so focused on other things that I just don't have time to think about it."

That's semi-accurate...I haven't given much thought to turning thirty. Part of it is being so focused on other things that I have coming up. Part of it is being happy with where things are at. Turning 26 was hard, but I was unhappy then. No wonder I was unhappy about my birthday.

Tell me about your birthdays? Tell me which years were hard for you to face, and which ones you looked on with joy and excitement.

Comments

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

31 was hard to face. I'd been used to 30 for about 3 years.

Y'see, Dad called me shortly before I turned 28 and said, "Guess what! In two years and nine days you'll be 30!"

I was none too pleased, but the whole time I was 28 my answer to my age tended to be "most of 30", and at 29 it was "I'll be 30 next year." So turning 30, complete with big parties and fanfare . . . wasn't hard to face.

This year I rang in the day at agentxs's house, copying stuff off my HDD, then on the day-of I was pleasantly recognized at a couple social occasions. But no big party to plan nor real landmark . . . other than leaving that well worn number, and some not too easy life changes to boot.

[vix.livejournal.com]

I turn 30 in July, but have no wedding or major project to distract me from it. School has done more than enough of that, and frankly I haven't had a spare moment to find anybody remotely close to marriageworthy.

I just can't believe I'm almost 30, that's all. I feel like I'm 22 years old half the time.

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

My suggestion to you: act like a complete idiot on your 30th birthday. My best friend told me to queue my favorite song before I went to sleep the night before my birthday. Then when my alarm went off, I was to turn on the song and jump up and down on the bed. I now celebrate all my birthday mornings dancing on my bed, which probably why it started falling apart....

As for hard birthdays, 32 was difficult. I had just gone through a major breakup two weeks earlier and was moving out my apartment. Plus, I had the feeling of "there's no stopping it...my thirties are coming through." When I told my advisor that, she laughed so hard that I think she fell out of her chair.

[lala2.livejournal.com]

Well...I'm turning 40 on July 13th. That has me a bit freaked. :)

[onlyblossom.livejournal.com]

wow my baby is growing up :) happy almost 30 sugar!! can't wait to see you at your wedding:)

the best birthday for me was when i turned 38. for some reason it was like a freeing day, one i seem to have grown up in. i met a tons of new folk and for some reason what all laughs that year.

my worse was when i turned 50 it was depressing. i just didn't find anything to smile about. but now i'm *ahems* 50 something now, i find lots to laugh about again :)

[holliehoxenfree.livejournal.com]

The birthday that I moved back to Wisconsin was hard (25 in 1999) because my entire life had recently changed ( from work to school, from relationship to single, from VA to WI ) and I really felt like I had no idea who I was but was pressing on anyway.

30 was a big change because I was finally 'not' the youngest or one of the younger person/s at most gatherings be they office or other. This year feels a little weird because the '31' is a reminder that it just doesn't stop. I think once you leave your 20's, it begins to hit you that you had a lot of goals when you were younger that you may not reach by 30 or even ever.

Of course, you also realize that being older has tons of advantages and that you wouldn't go back to being 20 for any reason! (but that's another post entirely)

[veryfineredwine.livejournal.com]

I was mildly disappointed in my 27th birthday. That one was hard because it was the fall of 2000 and ever since I could subtract (age 6 or so) I thought that the year I turned 27 would be somehow special. It wasn't. In fact, that fall I returned to university to complete my degree (in a field that I hadn't intended to be in) and felt a bit disappointed in myself that it was taking so long to get one single baccalaureate.

Birthdays don't scare me. I've always had energetic older women who seem wiser, more graceful, gracious, stubborn, and independant as role models, and I can't wait to grow up to be like them.

[sandboxdiva.livejournal.com]

I've had a hard time facing all of my birthdays...I'm not usually happy with where I am in my life at the time, plus having my birthday at the end of winter, just a couple of weeks after Valentine's Day, hasn't helped any.

[meimeigo7696.livejournal.com]

Turning 28 and 30 were very cool. We went to London for my 28th birthday due to a airfare sale and we went to Paris for my 30th as it coincided with my hubby's business trip.

Turning 35 was a bit hard this year. Too much was going on then.

[fairion.livejournal.com]

I had trouble with 30. I knew it meant I was getting older but I didnt feel older. I also didnt feel like I looked any older. I didnt want to be old and thirty just sounded so old to me. I got over it.