Mind Drifts: The Big 30...

Yesterday, I saw this screen grab on Linda Ikeji's blog and it got me thinking about the significance of the 'Big 30'...why is it even called the 'big 30'? what is so big about 30? For the record, this is something I have said to different friends...If I am not married at 30 and I feel like I can raise a child, I will have a child.

But yesterday, I wondered why I had that opinion.

I thought about an article by Omonike Odi I read on her blog sometime back called 'the 20s or 30s bride'. She wrote about being a 20s bride and the need to be married before 30 and how she was glad she got married at the stroke of 30 because it was the perfect time for her. Then my mind drifted and I started to wonder why there was an age definition to the perfect time for marriage. Frankly, I can understand putting a timeline to child bearing...that's a biological thing, but does that also follow for marriage? And then, I thought about the new TV show 'Before 30' which pretty much chronicles a woman's hustle to meet and wed her husband before she turns 30.

Is there really something significant about the age, '30' or has society just brainwashed us all to

believe that a woman who is 30 has crossed some sort of threshold and should only be seen to act one way or the other?

I set a few life goals for myself when I graduated from school and a lot of them were age defined...I know that is the reason I sometimes panic when I realise that I am nearing the 30 age mark (I still haven't done a few things I intended to have done by the time I turn 30), but I now wonder if, erharps, even that, is just my mind being held in the bondage of societal manipulations.

Do you know what it is about 30? 

I have just decided to try and reprogram my mind to not see 30 (or 40) as a big deal. An age is just that, an age. There has to be more to life than trying to run a race against time, for fear (or pride) of entering a new age.