Signs of approaching middle age?
--Old friends getting married.
--Old friends having children.
--Old friends getting divorced.
(Note that these aren't necessarily in that order. Nor, fortunately, the same old friends.)
That said, this also says something about my position in our economic and social class system. (And also academia, which sometimes seems like a class of its own.) I have relatives, for instance, who had gone through all three of these by age 22, or younger.
--Old friends having children.
--Old friends getting divorced.
(Note that these aren't necessarily in that order. Nor, fortunately, the same old friends.)
That said, this also says something about my position in our economic and social class system. (And also academia, which sometimes seems like a class of its own.) I have relatives, for instance, who had gone through all three of these by age 22, or younger.