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Essay About Turning 30

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Like every year, I have been going gaga over my birthday from past few weeks and this time I guess, even more. Well its not every year that you turn 30. I have been on an emotional roller coaster ride, being overwhelmed thing about how I am about to complete 3 decades of my life, and being depressed over how worthless has my life been, the very next moment. My situation presently closely resembles with that of the FRIENDS Episode "The One in Which They All Turn 30". Seeing my age as 29 years for the last time on a railway ticket made me sad. I wanted to be 29 till further announcement but again was lured by the idea of turning 30 and then 31 and then 32 and so on..I want to be 16 forever but also be a wine that turns better when older... I must say life 's never been so confusing !!! I feel excited thinking of having spent almost 30 years being alive. Not that I can remember them all, but I have anecdotes from the elders to support the fact that I exist beyond my memories... When I look back, I have had quite an easy going life that I spent laidback inside my comfort zone. I had my own shares of troubles and issues which have in some way, been …show more content…

I don 't stand where I had imagined myself when young. Well i am married and into a decent job, yet I am nowhere close to what I had planned for myself,say, even 5 years back...that is demotivating.Not that I haven 't enjoyed this journey.. I have lived each and every moment and may be traded that momentary happiness for the long term goal. All these have been totally worth it. But going forward and setting some long term goal scares me now. What if I set some goals and 5 or 10 years down the line, again fail to achieve them ?? It 'll be like I lived my life on my own terms and conditions but repenting at the end. I realize the problem is a very complex one.. I evolve time to time.. Today I am not what I was 5 years back and might not be the same 5 years

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