30 Questions from a 30-Year-Old
/It's officially been one calendar month since I turned 30, which is further proof that time moves too quickly. (I wonder if it will go this fast once I'm pregnant. That's 9 months I could stand to have fly by.)
In honor of my one-month anniversary of being 30, I've been wondering a few things that I was hoping ya'll could help me answer:
In honor of my one-month anniversary of being 30, I've been wondering a few things that I was hoping ya'll could help me answer:
- When will I start to feel 30?
- When will I start to get freaked about turning 40?
- At what age do people stop being able to sleep in?
- Why did my metabolism stop working the moment I turned 30?
- Did anyone else's metabolism stop working when they turned 30?
- Will I ever feel like a grown-up?
- Will I ever feel like I'm "ready" to have a baby?
- Is there ever a "good time" to get pregnant? i.e., will I ever look forward to the next 9 months and not think, "I'd like to be able to drink at ____..."
- Should I keep making new friends, or work on the quality of friendships I do have?
- What am I going to be when I grow up?
- Is it bad that I'd have no problem being a stay-home mom?
- How do people know how to parent and not have their children 1) die from something because they don't know what they're doing (like choking) or 2) turn into psychos, murderers and generally horrible people?
- Will the people I celebrated my 30th birthday with be the same people I celebrate my 50th birthday with?
- How old is too old to celebrate birthdays?
- Will my kids like me?
- What happens when someone I know gets divorced, as statistics say? What will I do?
- When will the world become a better place?
- How will I deal with the people I love dying?
- Will I ever understand politics? History? Geography?
- When will I finally write my first book?
- Were my 20s really the best years of my life?
- Do I look old to young people? Young to old people?
- Will I ever have a body that I'm happy with?
- How do I balance my ambition of being an author with my ambition of not working ever?
- At what age should my parents stop looking after me, and when should I start looking after my parents?
- Will I ever feel like I've "made it," in terms of money, success or happiness?
- When will taking a shower stop feeling like a chore, and like something I want to do?
- Will I ever take medication for my anxiety or OCD?
- Will my weight ever fully catch up with my appetite? In other words, will the fact that I eat like I'm 300 lbs ever actually mean I weigh 30 lbs?
- Are you ever ready for 30?