Tell-tale Signs...

[rhythmaning]

I have been thinking about a stream of comments to an earlier post – http://www.livejournal.com/users/rhythmaning/6532.html – which kind of struck a maudlin note. It made me feel – well, old.

So here are signs that you are getting older… or maybe growing up?

You take out a personal pension plan. (Nineteen years ago.)

A parent dies. Not much you can do about this one, it is really out of your hands; but it is a clear, defining moment. Suddenly you are not a child. (Eighteen years ago.)

You buy property and oh my god it is all yours and you wander from room to room, thinking, oh my god, it is all mine… And there is no landlord to come and fix the dripping taps. (Twelve years ago.)

You realise that the graduates you have been working with are half your age. At which point you stop counting. (Three days ago.)

Comments

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

You should make the distinction between "growing up" and being an adult. You can quite easily be the latter without having done the former.

Me? I turned 30 this summer (which I realise makes me a spring chicken to some people, heh), have a pension plan, have savings and a financial advisor to help me invest them, am currently house hunting and will probably be in the posession of a 30 year mortgage and a property soon, etc... All round adult stuff. But deep, deep down? I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up....

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's my problem - I still feel like I'm nineteen - and I don't know what to do when I grow up either!

Train-driver, perhaps...