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> Ok, imagine you're 35 Did I read that right? Are you really using 35 as an arbitrary number meaning "some distant point in the future"?
by willismichael 14y ago
> Ok, imagine you're 35
Did I read that right? Are you really using 35 as an arbitrary number meaning "some distant point in the future"?
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoMore like 35 as that point when you realize you're not young anymore, this is actually your real life, and you need to stop daydreaming and deal with it.
- RougeFemme 14y agoAlthough there's nothing wrong with constantly wondering what you want to be when you grow up. . .even when you're "old" - however you define that. . .as long as it doesn't lead to unhappiness or obsessive navel-gazing.
- krapp 14y agoAs someone who's experienced both depression and obsessive navel-gazing at 35 I can attest to its counterproductive nature.
- solistice 14y agoI'm using 35 as the midpoint to 70, the rough point at which, if you're doing the wrong thing, you can't kid yourself anymore. For some people it's 25, for some 40, for some it never ever happens and they just live out their lives. The number IS arabitary +-10 years, but you won't have your midlife crisis when you're 5, nor when you're 90.