this year I'll be 30---what the fuck happened?

[Blue_Tires]

2. what will i do with my life?

3. and where/how will i ever find a decent woman? (I've been looking, and am convinced she ain't out there!)


just thought i'd knock out all these questions at once :evilfrown: :nuke: :cry:

[SmileyBoy]

1. Tell me how it comes out - I'll be 30 in six years.

:scared:

[Blue_Tires]

3. have yourself frozen in time

because shit is only going to get more complicated

[SmileyBoy]

7. It's been growing exponentially already.

And the worst thing is that my social/economic safety net is diminishing further and further. i.e. I'm going to have to buy my own health insurance in Sept. of 2007, because I won't qualify on my parent's plan anymore.

Life is gonna start sucking MORE.:(

[Blue_Tires]

10. good luck!!

stay away from blue cross/blue shield, who refused to insure me! (currently uninsured)

[killerbush]

2. Relax, I'll be fifty in 6 years

[asthmaticeog]

4. I'm 36 next month and still wondering the same shit.

I think it's probably best to forget about it and just get on with whatever you're into doing.

[Redstone]

5. A week ago I turned 53. I found a decent woman, but for your

first question, well, I don't have an answer.

Redstone

[Missy Vixen]

6. Blue_Tires, you're 30?

Okay, it's like this.

I had a teacher in high school that used to tell me he was 42, and still didn't know what he wanted to be when he grew up. I'm in my mid-40's and just now figuring some of it out. This may not apply to you.

The "decent woman" part? I can only give you the female perspective. I liked guys that hung out in bookstores. Sometimes, they liked to read. I liked guys who were intelligent, funny, and not afraid to sometimes laugh at themselves, and thought that they'd like a woman who was intelligent and had a good sense of humor. I liked guys who could be just as happy listening to the game and having a beer or two in their backyard than a guy who insisted he needed to go to a five-star restaurant before he was having fun. I liked guys who listened intently to what I had to say. You might say I fell in love with my husband's ears before I fell in love with the rest of him.

I'm just one woman. I know there's someone out there for you.

Julie

[Blue_Tires]

11. thanks for the insights!

i feel a little better now

and fwiw, i'm still technically 29...I'll be 30 in Sept.

[Missy Vixen]

14. Go see the Mets

You'll find a woman there, because she must love baseball.

Julie

[Jara sang]

8. and then one day you find...

ten years have got behind you..

no one told you when to run...

you missed the starting gun.

[Blue_Tires]

12. i'd start sprinting now

if i wasn't broke and in debt

[Floogeldy]

9. You're all messed up inside, right now.

Shhhhh. Wait. ;)

[CarpeDiebold]

13. dude, i feel your pain

the first question - right there with ya. nooo clue on this end either.

the second - ah man, that kind of negative attitude gets you nowhere. draw up a list of *exactly* what qualities/characteristics you'd like your mate to have AND not have. that should keep you from going crazy trying to find the amorphous perfect woman, and something you can work with. me two cents.

g'luck :)

[Blue_Tires]

22. yes, that's a good point

i keep telling myself that the 'perfect' woman doesn't really exist, and if she did, she would almost certainly be interested in someone other than myself!

[miss_american_pie]

15. Hmmm

1. I turned 29 a couple months ago and asked the same damn thing.

2. The best way to find something is to stop looking.

:hug:

[BlueIris]

16. I am right there with you, buddy. I'll be thirty in May of '09 and I...

DON'T WANNA!

Well, okay, I do. And I can't WAIT to be 35. I just don't want to quite yet.

As for what to do with your life--there's an excellent book about that out there now by Po Bronson called, "What To Do With Your Life." Good stuff.

I'd relax about not having found the right woman yet. At least you're not in a committed relationship with someone who is totally wrong for you, with a mortgage, 2.5-5.5 kids, and a mess o' scary in-laws. They always say you find the right person when you're not looking. So...stop looking?

[Blue_Tires]

21. thanks

i'll look up the bronson book

[malmapus]

17. I turn 32 this year =(

Still wondering where 30 went to :(

[Giant Robot]

18. I turn 35 this year

And I'm still wondering what happened to high school!!!

[tigereye]

19. ha ha just wait til you are almost 50

no, seriously, the 30s are a pretty cool decade. You find out a lot about yourself.

[hedgehog]

20. Well, you see, about thirty years ago, when a mommy and a

daddy love each other very much, they....


Happy Birthday from someone old enough to be your mother.