Dear Reddit - I turn 30 in a matter of days. There are supposedly lots of things I should have done by the time I am 30 (do a menial job, have a threesome, sleep with a celebrity, get a tattoo etc) but I don't have much time left. What one should I focus on?
Posted Jan 29, 2010, 1:58 PM UTC
Get drunk, pick up some young bar skanks and an 8 ball, then go at it for hours.
It not like your life will be over or anything. You've still got plenty of time.
NOT if you lived in the early 20th century when average life expectancy was like 30 years. Talk about a life crisis!
True I guess. But there again something as simple as a tooth abscess or chicken pox would have seen you off in those days.
You should get really drunk and do something really dumb. Because it will be the last time that sort of behavior will be somewhat acceptable. After that you will be considered an alcoholic or a menace to society.
Focus on making it to 40. 30 will seem like a walk in the park.
growing up, focus on that...
Mostly, don't worry. Except that if you don't have your driver's license yet, get it. You don't want to forever be that guy who didn't get his driver's license until he was 30. Ditto losing virginity.
I would write a long list of the things I want to do before I turn thirty. I would then try and accomplish as many of those things as possible in the few days you have left. And when you run out of time realise you spent too long writing the f%$#ing list.
How about you just do whatever the hell you want and stop giving a shit about how people are going to perceive you differently?
Start planning all the things you are going to do in your thirties so you don't find yourself in a similar predicament 10 years from now.