[Macadamia]

I remember the self expectations of wanting everything before 30; have my education done, have a good paying job, have a nice car, own my own home and being married but the thing is, all of these take years to get. This really bugged me a lot back in the day.

After a while I realized that we live for a while so there shouldn’t be any ‘deadlines’ in life. You can set goals but there’s no need to over expect from yourself. So if your “finished” all your goals, what’s next? There’s going to be 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s....see, there’s lots of time. People get married in their 40’s, people finally get a career going in their 50’s, and women have first child in their 40’s. Life is full of setbacks and interruptions but you can’t blame yourself for this.

Life’s not over after 30. 30’s is actually BETTER than the 20’s in my opinion. You actually know yourself more of yourself and you deal with things better than in your 20’s. I’m early 30’s (yes RS's oldest female member) and I do have my moments when I think maybe I should have done things earlier but there’s always a time and place.