thirty-something really?

I was 12-16ish years old when the television show 'Thirty Something' was airing. I remember looking at it and thinking... what do those lame old people have to talk about anyway? So, I never really watched it or attempted to 'get into it.'

Well, here we are 20 something years later. I am thirty something and guess what, there is something to this age. It's like the adult Tweens; coming out of adolescence but not yet a teenager.
So we are coming out of that twenties, where careers are started, families begin and life starts to slow. We are not yet in our forties when you are generally fully settled in your career and you start watching your kids move out on their own.

It's a weird kind of time. It's like adult puberty... Now instead of seeing hair pop out of strange locations we start seeing it fall out and/or turn colorless. Instead of muscles starting to strengthen and develop, they start to go dormant from sitting at a computer all day, they start to ache and slow down that twenty-something spring they once had.

Socially it's a strange tween time as well. We are now almost always older than our clients. We are too old to want to go out to the club but to young to enjoy just sitting at home.We don't get much casual adult conversation. We spend most of our time talking with clients or kids.

Instead of still having some energy at bed time, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. (monty python reference). We are looking forward to going to bed every night just to get a break from work/homework/housework/shuffling kids to activities, etc.

The coolest thing about this time, though, is it's not really ours. It is a time that we are devoting to our children. We are teaching them, we are developing them, and we are providing for them! It's a strange and beautiful time, full of love and life. A time that is unimaginable, and absolutely needed for the growth of the soul and development of humanity.We lose that, what do I want and what about me and we focus our lives on others. This is were we are really tested, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We show what we are really worth. We put into practice all the things that we were taught as kids. We recognize life's importance and try to give our kids some sort of foundation to build their lives on.

This time is probably the most important time in our development as a people and as individuals.

So sometimes when I feel that weird adult puberty thing happening and I just wish I, myself, could be a kid again,  I just look at our own kids and realize how awesome this time really!