Time goes fast. When I was 16 and just finished school I could never envision I'll ever get to this point. Thirty sounded so far and unreachable. When I got my 'quarter of the century' Birthday I felt it - 30 is just 5 years away. Since then each day this number approached noticeably faster than before. And not even on a daily basis - every half year passes in a blink of an eye.
Coming from a ex-soviet country where people were getting families and kids at a reasonably early age, we had a belief of achieving everything before 25-30 or die trying. I'm sitting here alive, but definitely far from having achieved everything, when this important age is not even on the horizon, it's right in my face.
Putting aside my personal pressure from this day coming, today I learned the first thing that gives me a glimpse on a bit brighter future. I was looking a car hire site, and they had a really nice rental option - for just 20% more money than the cheapest option you get a substantially nicer car to drive. And not just any car, but a Jag, which for unknown reasons I'm really found of since being those 16 years old. The other related positive moment of an older age is actually to be able to afford renting the car, when as a teenager the only thing you could afford was riding buses, and even that was a gift from your parents 🙂
Getting back to rentals - the only condition separates me from driving a Jaguar is... that I'm not 30 years old yet 🙂 This is actually a known limitation for car rentals since insurance companies won't insure expensive cars being driven by people younger that age. The same thing happened with me last year while I was visiting few awesome friends in California. I had to jump through hoops to be able to reach a Tesla owner on Turo in order to persuade him to lend me his car outside of the platform since Turo also requires to be 30+ to rent cars from the higher price tiers. I even couldn't PM the owner because I confirmed my real 'below 30' age before. But I still could get ahold of him in one of his other rentals with lower age requirements 🤓
Thinking 'Summer is 1/3 through' was also disappointing till some point. Now I'm thinking, 'yay, 1 months less to iOS 12 public release!' 😬
What are your benefits of reaching this age?