Is 30 Really The New 20?
Your twenties went by in a blur and before you knew it, boom. It’s over. “Can we go back?” or “Wait I wasn’t ready!”, these are the thoughts that play in my mind when I look back at the last nine years. I’ve spent almost an entire decade coming into myself in a myriad of different categories. First I was the college sorority girl that got her first taste of freedom from her parents, then I became the live-in girlfriend that was still trying to figure out what day I needed to do the laundry on and how the hell did I make lasagna? Next up was Fiancé’ and then quickly came wife and mother. That seems like a lot of living in nine years. I keep hearing, “Oh don’t worry about your twenties coming to an end, thirty is just like the new twenty”! The only thing is, I don’t want to be twenty again. Taking a look back at the person that I was at twenty, I am now able to identify the shyness, eager to please, and dare I even say it, yes, immature at times girl that I was. I choose to leave those things in my twenties and take with me into my thirties take the daring, self-assured, and witty woman I’ve grown into.
Here are a few other things that I don’t mind leaving in my twenties.
- Raging hangovers after partying late into the hours
- A diet consisting of mostly fast food
- Meaningless relationships with acquaintances and beaus
- Wandering through life without a real sense of direction
- Reckless self-indulgence
What I look forward to experiencing in my thirties:
- Anniversary celebrations with my husband
- PTA meetings- Yes I look forward to even the most mundane of parenting tasks!
- Girlfriend vacations! I’ve always dreamed of taking luxurious trips to the french riviera with my best friends but I can only now just afford it!
- Doing exactly what I want, when I want because now I’m comfortable enough in my own skin to do just that!
The next time that someone says “Don’t worry thirty is the new twenty”, my answer will be “ I certainly hope not!”.
