Oh dear .. it's my birthday

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I've just turned 35 and feel exactly what has happened to the last 18 years since I left high school!! I know 35 is still young and I believe I am young at heart but you know what I mean... 35!! Does anyone feel like they should have achieved more ? Trying not to be critical ... but I don't feel like I have achieved a lot and trying to get rid of this debt.. thought I would be sorted by now!

Oh dear.. I shouldn't be working home alone today, going in circles in the mind!

Sorry for the slight psycho blip ... anyone else feel like this?!? feeling a bit down...

Tulip

Happy Birthday Have a lovely day

Katie

whitewing

35 is a great age - sexy, vibrant and confident. Plenty of things you have achieved. Stop looking at life chronologically and think of all those skills you have learnt. Plenty of time to pay off those debts.

Have some birthday sunshine from me (and don't watch the news; I always feel more cheerful if I don't).

SmellyOldSock

Happy Birthday to you! Yeah I sure do know what you mean! you look at yourself and think you should've done more, achieved more blah blah blah, but a birthday is a day to celebrate coming into this world, for looking at what you have achived, what you have done and what you have got.

I'm gonna be 38 next month, part of me dreads it, but I look back at my life, and see what i've done and who I have in my life, and things aren't so bad.

After all it is only a number!;)

enjoy today, you're special!
Charlotte

foreign_correspondent

yes, I was exactly the same and still feel a bit mid life crisis-y even though its not that long to go till 36 now!!

I reckon its a bit of a mental milestone because its halfway to your allocated 'three score years and ten', and even though most people live far longer than that now, it still makes you focus on things like the passage of time, the nature of mortality and the brief and transient nature of human life...

....or maybe that's just me, being a little prone to melancholly!

But, if you feel the same way, in my experience the best antidote it to get cracking on with the stuff you want to achieve, because life is short and time waits for for no man (or woman)!

lostinrates

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

My transition to thirty a few weeks ago has not been easy. I feel the last few years of my life have been treading water and biding my time. In my early twenties I was the owner of a successfiul business, I was extremely social and the world was my oyster. At 24 years old I got a neurological illness which changed my life. I piled on weight, couldn't work, have had to relearn how to talk and write (my posts are so confusing sometimes, full of mistakes and badly worded) . I miss working, I miss being proud of my success. BUT on a different measure life is, strangely better. I'm a more patient person, my then boyfriend is now my husband and while I had in the past always wondered t the depth of a boyfriends love there is no doubting a man who does for one what my DH has done to tke care of me. If I had still been working we wouldn't have had the opportunity to live abroad for a couple of years. I miss being the old me, but I'm learning to like the new one a bit more. I'm hoping in my thirties I get the balance a bit better I'm sure if you try hard you can find some positives to life now

Have a great day!

xxlaurissaxx

Happy Birthday! Your still young.

Write a list of all the things you want to do before your 40/50 and go and do them.

As my mum (and foreign correspondant) says - lifes short and time waits for no one! You only get one chance so make it the best you can.

xx

myrnahaz

Happy Birthday, GJ - I'm sure your doldrums won't last long!
I found it shocking when I realised that both my kids were 'older' than me! I still only feel like I'm in my late teens/early twenties, but my youngest is now 25, so it gets a bit confusing (I'm also a Grandma - albeit a very young one, lol!).
I hate the fact that I'll be 50 next year, but I've also realised what people mean when they say that age is just a number. My theory is that we are all born with the exact same thoughts, ideals etc as the adult we become, and that the reason I feel decades younger than my true age is because I'm exactly the same person I was all those years ago - I've just amassed a load of knowledge, life-experience etc. I was then able to understand that if you take away age as a number, I'm just me, and as long as I stay true to myself, then I'll never get old.
The problem is that we get so wrapped up in the mundane aspects of living that life just seems to pass us by in a rush. Thank your lucky stars that you've realised that you're only 35 and have your whole life ahead of you.

Have a good day.

Bettyboop

Happy Birthday.

When I turned 30 a little while ago I cried all day. I don't know what it is but from now on my birthday doesn't exist. I don't tell anyone when it is and further more I hope they don't remember. It's just something about being the big 3 0 that doesn't sit to well with me.

Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful day. Perhaps you could do something to take your mind off it...

whitewing

It is interesting. I quite like getting older, but I definitely feel younger, the older I get. I worry less about what other people think. I would like to be slender though.

When I turned 35, I remember saying to my friend that I still had time to get married and celebrate my golden wedding anniversary. You've got masses of time left to make a difference.

Paparika

Happy Birthday :beer:

35 ah you young whippersnapper it's the big 40 for me this year

Have a fantastic day, 35 is still young and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.