Aug 11, 2004 17:24
I know it has only been 7 days, but I'm thinking this life after 29 thing isn't for me. Things are geting worse by the minute and I'm not sure I'll make it as an adult. When you turn 30 everyone expects you to be soooo responsible and perfect and I'm not sure I'm ready for the pressure.
I've become really uptight. Sometimes I look at my life and think "Where did I go? What happened to the real me?" I've always based my personal fulfillment on whether my life is interesting enough to be written about. The fact that I pay my bills the second I get them, go to work everyday without ever calling in sick, do the dishes and I haven't smoked any hooch in way over a year is a very bad sign that if my life were actually a book the reader wouldn't be able to get past chapter 2.
When Normund was still brushing up on his English, I said "In my book, I think XX." He replied with "you're writing a book? Am I in it?" Well no, but if I was nobody would care.
I need a cocktail really bad, but I'm trying to give this "detox" thing a try. No I'm not an alcholic, but I'm trying to cleanse my body by eating vegies, drinking lots of water and keeping the rest of the toxins away. But instead of feeling clean and free I want to run out of my building screaming. Is this normal behavior for a new thirty-something? To my elders, please advise.