Just Google "30 Years Old" or "Turning 30" and the internet is full of articles and images like "How to Accept The Milestone", "I'm 30: Have You Seen My Youth?", & "It's All A Big Joke Until it Happens to You!". Our pop culture is full of television episodes about the characters having mental break downs about turning 30; my particular favorite is the Friends episode when Joey turns 30 and they all reminisce about how badly each of them dealt with their 30th birthdays.
I wouldn't exactly say I am excited about turning 30 but I am also definitely not dreading the moment. However, I have been consciously thinking about the infamous birthday for quite sometime. I think it comes down to the fact that as a kid, you think 30 is very old, and that you will have accomplished so much by that point. But here I am, a few months shy of 29, and I still don't feel like a real grown up.
I am proud of many of the things I have done with my life so far. I graduated college, I have glided through the air 4,000 feet in the sky in the tiniest plane you have ever seen, I married the love of my life, I have been to all the monuments, including the White House, on the DC Mall, I have had two great jobs where I was continuously promoted, I have been the to the famous Arch of Cabo San Lucas and seen Land's End the southern most tip of the Mexican peninsula. But there is so much more I want to do!
Being an avid Pinterester, I started searching for fun ways to celebrate the big 3-0 and found that 30 Before 30 lists are quite popular! There are tons of websites, blogs, and lists dedicated to the subject! So I decided since I love making lists and checking things off as I complete them, that this would be the perfect way for me to celebrate the milestone and make me feel like I am a super accomplished 30 year old!
I set a couple of rules for my 30 things before I turn 30 list. I didn't want to put travel items on my list or else that is all it would be; all 30 items would be places I would want to visit and that would be financially impossible for the amount of time I have to complete my list.
By the way, as of today, I have 508 days before I turn 30.
My wonderful husband, Darren, who is being dragged along on this adventure with me, and I usually try to travel somewhere once a year. So I limited myself to one real travel item on my list (My definition of "traveling" is needing to get on a plane to get there). A few of the other rules were I had to do something nice for someone else, I had to learn things, I had to do something I had been putting off, I had to leave the world a better place in some way, and all of the things on my list had to be "do-able" and financially reasonable.
Even though I will be taking this list of 30 items that I need to complete in 508 days extremely seriously, I am not going to beat myself up about not finishing in time. There are a few things on my list that I would obviously like to accomplish by my 30th birthday, but some things can not be rushed, and I think as long as I get started or at least have a game plan I should still feel pretty good about it.
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