Wednesday, April 19, 2006

In a week it'll be my birthday once again and having already dealt with the horror that was moving from one administrative tick box to another a couple of years back I now have to face the fact that soon I'll find myself stuck in my late-30s rather than my mid-30s.

The thing is I'm not really sure I'm ready to be in my late-30s yet; somehow I just don't seem old enough to be, well, that old. 37 is 'proper' grown-up and I just don't feel properly grown-up yet. Yes I have a long-term partner, am nearly 10 years into a mortgage and a nice car but I still feel like a big kid at heart.

I'm now seven years older than my dad was when I was born (he was 29 then and I'm 36 now) and yet I don't see myself as grown-up in the same way I believed my dad was back when I was growing up. It's probably got something to do with how you perceive stuff when you're a kid, or maybe growing up is just one of the things you have to do when you get married and have a young family to deal with.

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