Reflections: Turning 30 20 Articles

by Jen Bonds

Look out thirty because here I come! I still have over a year left but as we all know at this age, time passes by in the blink of an eye. I have always dreaded the day that I would be thirty. That is when life is over, you are

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by Sadaf Farooqi

I remember watching Oprah Winfrey's show more than a decade ago, in which a woman was constantly talking about how depressed she was at having just turned thirty. According to her, she spent the whole day crying, and canceled

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by Kimberly Bookman

I can feel the sand stuck under my fingernails. No matter how long I wash them in the beach bathroom, I can't get it all out. But things like this no longer bother me. As I look into the mirror above the sink, I notice my hair

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by April J.

Rain lashed the windshield of our tiny plane as it took off yesterday down a small grass and gravel runway in the middle of a sugar cane field. Bound for Liberia, Costa Rica it carried only myself, three of my family members

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by Bridget N. Watts

I remember that when I was little, I used to think that someone who was thirty-years-old was ancient. Even as a teenager, and later as a young adult, someone in his or her thirties seemed old to me. Thirty represented things

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by Robert Hill

As a twenty-nine year old rapidly approaching the thirty year mark I tend to think about the past. I never actually thought I'd live to see thirty. I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. As my birthday is a little less

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by Clare Petzer

Ok I'm smart, I'm funny, exciting AND intelegent there's nobody quite like me uum well thats how I felt at 17 but then I stopped feeling that way and for some reason I felt I had to keep up the persona to convince who er ME.

This

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10 of 20

by fairychild

As a single woman approaches her thirtieth birthday, feelings of fear, anguish and the unknown lay trapped beneath a mountain of questions and self-doubt.

It forces you to examine the past 29 years while THE question, what have

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by Cathryn Lewis

How would I put it to tell you how I felt when I finally turned thirty. When I turned thirty it was ok. I didn't feel any different then I did when I was twenty-nine. The one thing I remember is every time I turn one year older

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by Pixie Bartlett

When I turned Thirty years old, I was divorced and alone. I had to work the day of my birthday. And when I got home in the afternoon I had a pity party instead of a birthday party.

I was sitting around the house feeling sorry

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by Melissa Savilonis

The months and weeks leading up to my thirtieth birthday were the worst! I had a long to to list of things I had always wanted to accomplish before I reached the ripe old age of thirty, but somehow I reached thirty before I could

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by Pamela Gifford

"Don't trust anyone over thirty!"

I heard this phrase when I was a child. That's when I got the impression that there was something inherently wrong with people over thirty. My dad would constantly use the expression, "I'm too

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by L. Beall

It seemed like it was far away once. Then all of a sudden it was right around the corner. I couldn't believe it. Now that the milestone has passed I still forget sometimes that I am just past thirty.

Once I hit the point of thirty

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by Ronda Ogilvie

Well now that I'm thirty I can really start living! When I turned thirty I was so thrilled, it felt as if I could get on with life and leave all the childishness behind. It seems your whole life up to thirty is waiting to be

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by Shawna Blake

For some reason or other, the thirty year mark had troubled me for months before it actually hit. I envisioned myself having a panic attack of some sort when the clock struck midnight. I pictured myself hunched over and crying

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by Alisha Deschene

When I was in high school 30 was like 50. I never wanted to get that old. I remember the restaurant where I worked had our local high schools 10 year class reunion and I thought that they were so old. I was in the prime of my

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by Summer Aleshia

My life had been cruising along nicely. No major bumps. I am happy. I am married. I have a career and a job I love. I am working on finishing my degree. I have great friends. So, why did the thought of turning thirty scare me?

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by Candace Alan

9 days 9 hours 6 minutes and 14 seconds

Ok, So I have 9 days 9 hours 5 minutes and 45 seconds until I turn 30. I am filled with all kinds of emotions...anxiety, excitement, sadness, and most of all....CONFUSION! How in the world

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