A certain thirtysomething
— It feels no different to any other year now I'm turning thirty. Yet.”
This week it turns out I’m thirty years old.
It doesn’t feel any different. Yet. No urge to buy a big, red, penis extension sports coupé. No inexplicable desire to leave J for an eighteen year-old trainee hairdresser.
Out with friends the night before the big number, I realised for the first time that I was the youngest among them. And that I would always be the youngest.
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not the Princeton curator, the US senatorial candidate, the Kentuckian pastor or the journalist from Arizona. In fact, I work as a consultant in User Experience and Information Design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Ellezelloise Hercule.
August 6th, 2009 at 16:36
Well, I would say “lucky you”… being the youngest all the time. It’s just now that I discover this picture and story, so sorry for the late reply… :-)
September 20th, 2009 at 16:02
Hehehehe – gosh – reading your words – I had a flash image of you in a red ferarri with an 18 year old by your side – and you didn’t look happy. Congrats on making it to thirty – its no small feat.
Jude XxX