Gettin' old

Reading Ed's last entry combined with reading Weird Like Usmade me think about how all the choices we make in our twenties affect the rest of our lives. It reminded me again that these choices cannot be made ahead of time. Remember all the carping in high school about how you needed to pick a career now and choose the right college if you don't take that math class your senior year YOU'LL NEVER GET INTO A GOOD COLLEGE and your life will be over before it's begun? I think that once you reach 30, you can truly put high school in it's place.

Among my friends, apparently no one chose the right college. We all switched at some point, and many of us didn't bother to finish. I know my life just kept right on happenning through college. In the tug of war between dealing bureaucratic red tape so that I could actually get a diploma vs a real life that included a nice paycheck, a cool apartment in a trendy neighborhood, and many like-minded friends it was an easy victory for real life.

Make no mistake: what you do in your 20's affects what you do in your 30's. I'm not entirely sure I see that it matters beyond that, however.