For a long time, turning 30 has come with a set of expectations about where you should be in your life – but these measures of ‘success’ no longer make sense, writes Daisy Jones.
“Why I’m stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’ in search of true happiness”Bridget Jones’s Diary– notable visions of how being in your 30s isn’t all as it seems – fed us a specific idea of what turning 30 might look like. Bridget is told that a woman can’t afford to be picky about men after 30 . And the latter showed that you could have a successful career and solid partner, but still not be fully sorted. But we weren’t really shown what it looked like to not have those things to begin with.
So if the “classic” turning 30 milestones are outdated, how might we redefine what turning 30 looks like today? In the current climate, it would be a wise idea to throw out any material expectations whatsoever. But there are definitely some emotional milestones that are worth bringing to the table. When I turned 30 last year, there were plenty of things I hadn’t yet ticked off the list, but the growth I’ve experienced since my early 20s is tangible and important. I care less what others think.
That said, it’s been hard to rewire my thinking over what life “should” look like by now. There have been achievements for sure But I didn’t think about any of this when I turned 30. I just became ultra aware of the fact I am hurtling towards death, still not totally sure how to file my taxes correctly, still with zero savings and zero chance of ever being able to afford a home, or look like what I imagined a “real adult” might look like .
In some ways, the emotional milestones of turning 30 are beginning to ease their way into pop culture. In, journalist Hannah Ewens wrote about how we’re seeing more emotionally intelligent pop about what it means to get older and wiser thanks to artists like Adele, Mitski, Charli XCX and others. Even Demi Levato, once a teen idol, wrote a song
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