Holy crap, I'm 30!

Nosferatu

Wow, I feel way more crusty than I did yesterday.

The other day, I was thinking about the last 10 years of my life. Bought a house, engaged twice, married once, and spawned once. My falling out with both of my parents, ditching what I thought was my best friend, dealing with my JW issues, and doing a huge personality overhaul (which is still ongoing). I accomplished a lot since I was 20. Perhaps I'll be able to spend at least some of my 30s enjoying what I've accomplished, but life is full of surprises!

Nosferatu

<---- and why does this thing say my Birthday was yesterday?

oompa

Congrats Nost...and Happy Birthday! I only wish I was were you are at 30. I was still Borg ecrusted at 30 and had many years to go before I woke up and began your path. The closer to 50 you get and that happens, the harder it is to adjust IMHO......................oompa

ps maybe you were born at midnight or a leap year?

dinah

Well, happy birthday, Nosferatu!

Thirty huh? Cry me a river. You ain't crusty yet. Look at it this way. You spent your 20's getting your house in order. Your 30's should find you getting more comfortable with your life on the outside of the org. I didn't "wake up" til I was in my 30's, so I'm hoping my 40's will be better. Late bloomer, I guess.

Have a great day! Don't sweat the numbers!

R.Crusoe

If you are fortunate 30 is a superb age to be enhancing all the pitfalls you are now awake to! You can mould your own diet, exercise, information uptake and look at life with journeys still in mind and routines to build in whilst your youth is still in the cells that you possess. Treat yourself with the respect of all life that has been imbued as a gift of the cosmos in this soul that is you! Challenge yourself to blossom as the summer flowers in the life you are in - you have a decade at least before fading and so your summer is arriving! I wish you well!

AK - Jeff

I am a 'crusty' 52. Try rebuilding friendships, and the baggage that comes from leaving the organization in your late 40's.

Still - ain't freedom to think great?

Jeff

zagor

Wow, I feel way more crusty than I did yesterday.

Just wait, it gets better soon you are going to realize that life can really be lived and not only fantasized about

Welcome to the dark side!

LouBelle

Happy birthday!

Enjoy your 30's, by what I've read, you deserve it and you're free to do!!!

WingCommander

I am 28, and already at 25 I was not looking forward to 30. 30 - means half of 60!!! Aaaack!

Like you, I seem to look back in time at everything that has occurred. I mean, like me, you probably had the "generation that saw 1914 will not pass away" drilled into you, so from little on up you never thought you'd see 20, much less 30 in "this system of things." Now, my whole family has died, and I am the only one left. I have a deep feeling of regret and astonishment that I am still here....that "this system of things," is still here. We were all supposed to be in the New System by now, remember? The year 2000? No way were we EVER supposed to see that in this Old System! But yet, here we are ..... now pushing 2010. I have a young son myself now. No way will I be raising him the same warped way I was raised, always looking forward to destruction of everyone around him.

I think when you are a JW, getting older is alot harder for the above stated reasons.

Regards,

WIng Commander

Nosferatu

WingCommander, you took the words out of my mouth! That's another thing I was thinking about the other day - I wasn't SUPPOSED to see 30. I was supposed to be in Paradise Erf by now.

But what a shit morning it's been so far. I spilled my cup of water I had from yesterday, another co-worker scared the shit out of me in the lunchroom, and I spilled half of my breakfast on the floor - all within 10 minutes. If this is 30, I want 29 back!

Holy crap, I'm 30!

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