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[driftmadly]

I'm getting to the point in my life where I feel like I'm too old for a lot of things. Certain clothing, certain habits, certain people... which is more than a little depressing. I know how old I am, but I don't know how old I look to others, or how I'm supposed to start acting. At times I feel incredibly mature, and at others, indescribably

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[bumbletbw]

I'm totally with you on the first paragraph. As much as I'd envisioned wanting to be Captain Responsibility - one of life's little overachievers - at 26, I realize that my inner child is alive and perhaps a little too active in my behavior. Other times I sound like a crotchety old man when I talk about pop culture events from our high school days and realize that these kids in class were still in elementary school. College freshmen were born in 1990. Jesus. Where did the time go?

I know that 26 is young, but I honestly feel like the things I'm doing with my life now, I should have started doing when I was 16. I guess I thought I'd be a lot more grown up, and just surprised to find out that though I've changed quite bit, I'm still the klutz I always have been. Oh well.

Good luck with the GRE, I'm sure you'll get what you need. Which book did you get?

[dutchessvana]

We have cars and a mortgage, but I still feel incredibly immature most of the time. I mean I have a career I love and all that, but like seeing our friends start families and have kids kinda terrifies me sometimes. I'm overwhelmingly happy for my friends that are having kids and I know they will all be great parents, but I just still don't see myself as "grown up" enough to have a kid of my own... I still feel like a kid most of the time... Just like a kid going through the adult motions.

[natcowmoo]

Having a baby in the next 5-7 weeks (yes it is that soon) has the beJEZZUS scared out of me. I mean, I'll never tell him that he wasn't a planned event, and now that I know he's coming I'd rather be dead that not have him, but I have wondered NUMEROUS times if I'm mature enough for all this because I am not handling the stress of being pregnant well at all. In fact, I concluded on Wednesday that I'm having a nervous breakdown for the first time in my life. I am graduating med school a year late to prepare for all this, still have 5 years of residency beyond that, so I have no career, and I still sleep in Homer Simpson pajamas and drink kool aid before bed :( I only have a car because the Mustang still works, and I have no mortgage, and likely won't for around 2 more years. So, I don't know where this puts me in the grand scheme of things, but I'm a smorgesboard of timelines if you will. My parents both had jobs, they had cars each, a house, and pretty well had their lives organized before they had kids. I can't even find my

[dutchessvana]

BUT at the same time, you're way more prepared and capable of raising a child than a VAST majority of girls/women giving birth these days!!!

I think your worrying about the baby SHOWS you're more responsible than most "parents."

BTW I drink kool-aid before bed most nights too!