Are you the person you imagined people your age to be?
When you were younger did you have an idea of what people were like at 30? 40? For instance, I remember thinking women who were 30 were SO grown up and had their shit together... Then I hit 30 and realized what a joke that was. If you had an image of what life looked like at a certain age, are you the person that you imagined at your current age?
I am hitting a milestone birthday this year and I'm definitely not what I imagined a woman my age would be. Yes, I have a career and a spouse, but I do not "feel" my age or the way I viewed women my age when I was younger.
Am I alone in this? Does this make me immature or delusional? Do I need to call my therapist? And listen, I definitely don't feel 25, but I just thought I'd feel differently at this age.
I definitely don't feel like an adult...let alone one nearing 40.
I read something on IG the other day that was talking about how a lot of the "adult markers" (getting married, having kids, buying a house) that we grew up with are things that we don't value as much as our parents did/aren't attainable for us, so that kind of messes with your idea of adulthood.
So true. I definitely haven't hit those "adult markers" and honestly, may never! I also think that likely our parents felt how we feel about adulthood but we obviously weren't having those conversations with them. Unfortunately, I lost my mom so I can't ask her what nearing 40 felt like but I would venture to guess that I'm not wrong...
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