Are you radically different than your younger self? Are there key elements that have stayed the same? Most parts? Do you feel as if you’ve followed the “roadmap of life” or forged your own path? Have there been “chapters” or do things all sort of slide into one contiguous flow? Share what you’d like!
Honestly, I’m now excellent at what I do and have confidence in that but, as I wander through my upper thirties, I’m not really feeling much different than my mid twenties.
I heard someone say thirties are the new twenties. I don’t know if they’re saying that because life expectancy went up (I think it came back down since then?) or because they were being catchy like a Cosmo article. But I am super glad your hard work paid off, because nothing is lovelier than mastery =)!
I’m living that way bc the economy was so bad in my 20s, and I feel like I’ve missed out. Couldn’t afford a house, or kids, or travel. I’m doing a little better now but a decade passed without me having many options.
I think they say this because they’re in their 30s now and would prefer to still be in their 20s (saying that as a 40 is the new 30 guy)