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Originally Posted by Katipan
I don't have less options than I did a decade ago. I have different ones. If anything young girls are focused on what things are supposed to be. Their focus is on the dream.
I'm too busy enjoying the ride to daydream anymore.
For every wet behind the ears male with no life experience that crosses me off their list because I'm an old lady, there's another one ready to enjoy the complete freedom of a woman that is no longer worried about what others think.
30s - all the vigor of youth, none of the emotional baggage.
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There is a lot of truth in this, but you're leaving out the ones who are so ****ed up from the previous baggage their early 30s are a desperate depression induced coma.
I still find myself bouncing between the 22-24 year and ~30 age brackets. I entertained a 23 year old a couple times the past couple months. It was a lot of fun, but I had to keep from smashing her unrealistic dreams in nearly every other conversation. Small town girl with a kid but no custody, serious daddy issues, a shit job, no money, no college, a pot smoking past that got her in trouble, living at home, and big dreams of building a log cabin on a big farm and traveling all over the country.
I regularly dodged the "what do you think" question like I was running with the bulls and had to look away every time she said, "oh, it's just money". I constantly felt like this....
