Hmm
You have been really busy with deep thoughts as you are
hitting the big 3-0.
– Friend to me via email re: stuff on my blog lately
As much as I’ve protested that I’m not “freaking out” at the prospect of turning 30, my recent blog history does say that perhaps I have been doing a lot more introspection regarding my life recently. I had chalked it up to feeling reenergized from the honeymoon, but I think my friend is right.
Heh, just when I don’t want to you to agree…
Yeah. I miss your opinions on American Idol performances…
What’s with this “Who am I” mumbo jumbo! I’ve got Mcpheever!
*gives peanut gallery fifth grade teacher look*
Since I appear to everyone to be obsessed with aging, I took the Death Test again. It looks as though they think I’ll live to 95! It used to say 83 or so. The recent changes have been in eating, exercising, and engaging in mentally-stimulating daily activities.
what’s the big deal with 30 anyways? some age that someone arbitrarily chose and now a lot of people stick to 30? it’s not as if 30 is midlife. US life expectancy is about 79, I think.
From what I know (i.e., misremember) about Korean culture from my wife, you are 1 when you are born, so you’re already 30. Now, that wasn’t so bad was it?
Honestly, it doesn’t feel like a big deal in that it in and of itself doesn’t mean much, and it certainly doesn’t feel old. So it’s not a fear/worry of growing older that has made me think.
I think it’s that I’ve been wondering why so many people freak out that part of those thoughts turned to thinking about some sense of goal-setting. A lot of people freak out that they aren’t who they wanted to be at this age, but 1) I don’t feel like it matters that much what we once thought we’d be, since we were pretty much idiots as children 😀 and 2) I think I am doing pretty well. But given that people had certain expectations, I thought I’d turn my mind to future goals. So, you know, I can disappoint myself when I turn 40. 😉
The big annoying thing about 30 is that it’s such an arbitrary number based on the number of fingers we have on our hands. If we had, say, 4 fingers on each hand, we’d be freaking out about 30 in base 8, which is 24 in base 10. Or if we had 6 on each hand, we’d be freaked out about 30 in base 12, which is 36! It’s all just completely arbitrary.
You have to remember that everything your wife tells you is a lie, since she’s a member of the KoAm mafia. Don’t tell her I tipped you off though.
“The big annoying thing about 30 is that it’s such an arbitrary number based on the number of fingers we have on our hands.”
I call shenanigans on that theory.
Since I google everything all the time, I googled “I call shenanigans”.
Second hit:
http://incite1.blogspot.com/
Your doppleganger.
ROFL!
Well, the base 10 part of the theory certainly depends on our fingers. Many basic counting systems, even roman numerals, are dependent on our hand/fingers (the V represents the shape of one hand, the X represents the two Vs together). Certainly, the base 10 system we use in the U.S. is based on the number of fingers. And the “crisis” age would most probably happen on a “roll-over” age. Perhaps if we only had 8 fingers total, we’d be freaking at 40 (which is 32), which would also more closely tie in at the age we in modern Western society think of ourselves as being “adults”.
So you’re big reason for … discussing … things as you turn 30 is because the number is arbitrary based on fingers?
Shenanigans! 😛
Heh. I concur. 🙂