8. no kids at thirty
I’ve been thinking a lot about being 30. About what a 30 year old looks like and acts like. I couldn’t tell if I was mature for my age or immature. I didn’t even know what it meant to be “mature for my age.” Who’s standards did we use to judge what’s “mature” at 30 and what isn’t? Who the fuck knows how to be 30? Who should I take my cues from?
And then I realized.
The reason why I felt so “childish” was because I was without a child. We’re the first generation to have a mass number of people still single and without child at 30. We are the largest population of 30 year olds without children there’s ever existed. This has never been normal before how could we know how to behave?
Back in the 1800s, girls had children at 14 years old!!! That’s so insane. I barely knew complex math equations at 14 years old, I can’t imagine giving birth at that age.
Those of us who are fully living life and happy as can be as childless 30 years old are starting to wonder how we fill up our days if not with children. We’re not quite sure what to do with ourselves.
How do we spend our time?
There is no precedent. The real unprecedented times we’re living through is a mass population of 30 something year olds that are either single or childless.
Personally, I think it’s kind of awesome.
It’s around this age that humans start to make families and you begin teaching your children about life and lessons. Reminding yourself in the process.
Without children to our name, a lot of us are having the pleasure of teaching ourselves how to be children again. How to enjoy life before all the lessons and life made us bitter about the world.
What is life like in its purest form?
What way was it when we first arrived?
Let’s get back to that now that we’re 30 with no kids.
Astrologers: could this be linked to Jupiter transits? Or 5th house profections? Idk.