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Every time I sat down to write this introduction, I laughed. Me? Introduce the Healthyish Guide to Your 30s? I’m less than a third of the way into this weird, wild decade, and my life feels like barely contained chaos. At least I'm not alone: A lot of my thirtysomething friends feel the same, whether they’re single or coupled or otherwise, with a six-figure salary or $600 in the bank, two kids or two dead houseplants.
I did all the things that needed to be done. I hired the movers, bought the furniture, made the doctors’ appointments, found the therapist, paid the credit card bills, did the yoga, got myself to work, and cried, cried, cried like everyone told me I would. And then, after the basic logistics were handled and it was just me and the tears, I decided to have a ridiculously impulsive, borderline irresponsible good time.
One could call it a bender, but I prefer to call it grown-up fun. Grown-up fun is fun you don’t think you should be having because no one is telling you it’s okay. When we were kids, adults were constantly telling us to go play. In college, they told us to explore. In our 20s, they loved reminding us not to worry, have fun, we’ll figure it out! But the minute we turned 30, people stopped telling us to have fun. In our 30s, we’re supposed to be done exploring.
Grown-up fun, on the other hand, is no-regret, impulsive, and unrestricted fun. For me, it's involved a lot of dancing, biking, kissing, lying in parks, feeding people, being fed, late nights into mornings, new friends, fresh flowers, ice cream cones, cannabis, so much music, and other things I don’t need my mom to know. None of it has been a miracle cure; a lot of it has been distraction.
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