And another one!
Monday, March 19th, 2007
So tomorrow I’ll be 27 years old. It’s kind of a big deal, but not really.
When I was a child I thought that 27 was the age at which I’d get married and start a family. My aspirations are rather different now.
When I was 25 I had my quarter-life crisis, panicking about my life direction and the usual stuff. It hit me hard; I was no longer in my early-twenties, I had somehow aged into my mid-twenties, which was just a sidestep away from my late-twenties… There were so many things that I wanted to achieve by my 30th birthday - sort out my career, get my own place, etc. I could no longer afford to lark about like I had all the time in the world. I was a quarter of a century old. I was miserable in a stressful dead-end job, trapped there by several thousand pounds of debt.
A couple of years later I’m a bit more relaxed about my life. I still want to reach certain goals by my 30th birthday, but I also need to live a little bit on the way. I need to enjoy my mid/late twenties, not just race through them in order to tick off some boxes.
Tomorrow I’m going to enjoy a relaxing Elemis facial and a back/neck/shoulder massage. In the evening I’m going to watch Patrick Stewart in the Tempest. I’ve never seen a Royal Shakespeare Company production before, so I’m looking forward to it.
2:31 am on 20-Mar-07
Happy birthday! Enjoy yourself and don’t worry 27 is a piece of cake…30 is the first real freak-out birthday I promise.
10:47 am on 20-Mar-07
Have a great birthday!
I’m the same age and minus the Elemis facial, that post could have been written by me - I had a crisis and managed to sort my head out. However, after this, I’m not counting any more…
1:58 pm on 20-Mar-07
Thanks y’all, I’ve decided that I’m staying 27 forever. Crisis averted!
My period started today, so I’ve postponed the facial and am wallowing in the lake of self-pity.
8:11 pm on 20-Mar-07
I had my first age-crisis at 20! - suddenly I wasn’t a teenager but a real adult, I should be doing stuff with my life, being responsible etc, etc, my next freak-out came at 25 as I realised I’d reached my mid-20’s and achieved nothing, blah, blah…
I just knew I was going to have an age-crisis at 30, in fact I knew it so well that it started when I turned 29, and by the time it was my 30th birthday I was fine. Sorry about the curse, - wallow away, poor you!
12:03 am on 21-Mar-07
I had my first mini-freak when I was 21, cos I was still bumming around while all my friends were graduating from uni.
Don’t laugh, but when I was younger I’d planned to be the first Black-British singing superstar, and I was to have conquered America by my 21st birthday…