| | I have only an hour until I’m officially 30, so here are my final completely random (and needlessly dramatic at times) thoughts at 29.
1. I have to pee.
2. I don’t feel that I should have to get a 30-and-over club card or change preferred radio stations (I already listen to NPR most of the time (or my iPod), so I’m well into my 60s for radio choices). Also, if you have to label an event “only for the grown and sexy”, it’s probably not a “grown and sexy” event.
3. I can no longer laugh at crass humor. I love inappropriate and warped humor. Now I have to be responsible with my humor.
4. To those of you still in your 20s, try to get to a 3rd world country for either a vacation or mission-type trip. (I highly recommend sub-Saharan Africa or Latin America.) Not at a resort, but something amongst the people, for at least 9 days or more. It will change your perspective in so many ways about your real place as an American and where you should be in the world.
5. Speaking of responsibility, I have to be responsible now. I am already, but there is no excuse for mistakes now. I can no longer casually date for fun. Every choice I make has to be the right one. Everything is significant. I have to marry only for money. I have to have $1 million saved up for each child I plan to have, just to have them make it through one year. I have to know the correct answer to any question asked of me and be a VP by 40. So much pressure. Thank God I’m 30 now and can magically execute each task flawlessly.
6. I can no longer like video games. No more Guitar Hero III or The Sims. No more comic books. It’s all serious books now. What does Oprah recommend this month?
7. Gasp! I’ll have to rush into marriage now. No more wasting time!
8. I don’t look forward to losing touch with certain friends throughout the years. Thank God for Facebook, but it’s not the same as seeing and hanging with the original Chocolate Posse, the Party Posse…and others. I didn’t have friends until the 10th grade. So, friends mean a lot more to me than most folks.
9. I’ll need to own either a Lexus IS or BMW 3 or Mercedes C or CLK within the next year. So I can look like I fit in while riding around yuppie areas of DC.
10. I can’t dance like I like to dance anymore. Janet Jackson and Madonna are flukes in the rule. Even though I had aspired at 29 to be able to move like them at their ages (47 and 55, respectively – it’s true…Janet is SO not early 40s!), now that I’m 30 I know that is impossible. Thus, I will relegate myself to the “head bob” when a song I like comes on. Less chance of a muscle pull or broken bone that way.
11. I’ve only been in love once until now. Once. It was an unhealthy situation, but I was in love. Is that good or bad to only be in love once from birth-29?
12. I don’t like not knowing things. For example, all this effort I’m putting into the career I want…will it work? That’s not up to me to decide, I know, but that’s an example of “not knowing something” that I don’t necessarily like. But such is life.
13. I always knew that 30 was coming. I prayed to live to see it. But now that I have 34 minutes until it happens, it’s a new awareness.
14. Random, but…No, I still don’t “get” the hype around Beyonce. And while she hit 30 four years ago, I like her music, her entertaining style, her singing voice (most times), and thought she did a good job in Dreamgirls, but I don’t get it as far as her being the first choice for a singer at the Oscars, Grammys, We Are One Concert, Emmys, Tonys, SAG, etc. (Those last few will happen, just give it time.) – That was for Marc and Nick. Love ya!
15. Related – I’m still more of a Mariah fan than Whitney. Always have been.
16. Still related – Nope, still don’t like R. Kelly. Never did. Even when he first came on the scene.
17. I don’t look forward to strange new body pains that I’ve heard starts at 30. I also don’t look forward to having to go to bed earlier simply because I can’t “hang” anymore. But maybe I’ll get more done in a day now by going to bed early and getting up earlier? Hmm…
18. I really thought I would get at least 30 thoughts out, but oh well.
19. I look forward to having more wisdom, better relationships, better living, better choices, and all the good things that come along with being 30 and over.
20. Since “30 is the new 20” I’ll leave with thought #20. Besides, this is long enough. To those who are below 30, enjoy your 20s. You don’t know as much as you think you do. Be willing to make a mistake sometimes. Live life with love and enjoy. Treat others the way you want to be treated. For believers, Jesus first, then everything else.
Take time out to slow down and enjoy life. Don’t become so obsessed with “success” and trying to work so hard to do EVERYTHING by 30 because you have this goal in mind that if you don’t life isn’t going to improve or be worth it. It’s really just a number. Life moves on and goes on. Time is linear, and these numbers are a way of keeping track of where you are on the line. Life still happens. To those 30 and over, I look to you for help and guidance on this day. 
Thirty (30), thank God for you. I accept you. |
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