> Tomorrow is my thirtieth birthday. Funny, I don't feel any different.
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> Well, that's not really true. Changes just come upon you so gradually that you don't really notice them until you hit a milestone and look back and go, "hey, what the crap just happened?"
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> Turning 20 was a much bigger deal to me than this. I don't know why. I was almost halfway through college then, had no prospect of ever having a girlfriend, much less a wife and children. I still lived at home with my parents, when I wasn't off at school, and my life really wasn't all that different from when I turned 18, which really was a much bigger occasion. You know, old enough to vote, about to graduate from high school, etc.
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> My life has changed much, much more dramatically in my third decade on this planet than it did during my first or second. I completed my college degree, landed my first real job, got married, had two children, got laid off of work twice and nearly a third time, and finally pulled up stakes and moved my family over 500 miles away from the town I was born in and always called home.
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> So tomorrow I'll turn thirty, and I'm thinking, "what's the big deal?" All the big important stuff already happened.
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> And I'm also wondering what my world will look like in another ten years.

You've done much more than I have. I'll be 30 in two years, and all I have done is got my first (and second) real job. I haven't graduated from university or got married (or had a relationship at all for that matter).