Some Mental Floss

Cleaning out some Thoughts

Tick Tock?

Posted September 14th, 2009 at 08:11pm

Wow, I’m finally back home.
 
After a 2 ½ hour flight from Boston to Charlotte, then a car ride from Charlotte to Columbia SC I’m finally home! I love walking into my apt and smelling the paint of my walls. There’s nothing else better than being home.
 
Now, it’s back to the daily grind, as I’m at work now, going through 268 work emails, I decided to take a moment to reminisce.
 
Last week I saw my best bud’s 11 month year old son Marco, as I was holding him I was thinking about my own life. I love kids, and usually kids would gather around me, like bugs around a bright halogen light, but when I was cradling him in my arms, my biological clock started to tick.
 
I’m about to turn 27 this December, and I’ve accomplished a lot for myself. I traveled half of the world, climbed the corporate ladder in four years, owned some real estate properties, started a dying clothing business, but I haven’t found love….
 
I’m going to be honest… I’ve put my career before my social life like most of us workaholics do. When I was younger I would put love before work, but when love took advantage of me, I chose work over love and never looked back.
 
My father keeps asking me if I’m going to start a family soon, both of my younger siblings have been in long relationships, and one is engaged, but I haven’t even been actively seeking, my sister told me to try eharmony.com, I told her I’d rather try ebay.
 
Is my biological clock ticking on me? Tick Tock, Tick Tock.

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pnaichick

Female, 28, Millbrae, CA

Posted


Gah... I hate it when we start thinking this way.. Uber major source of the proper late 20's/early 30's crisis... Nothing in comparison to the mid-20 or mid-life crisis. Especially more so when we have no one who is a potential at the moment to take up said chance at helping us start our family..... @.@

*silently freaks out*


fox12

Female, 24, Pompano Beach, FL

Posted


Love the fact that your biological clock started ticking at 26 lol most guys its not till past their 30s even some never even starts. Good luck finding someone who can make it stop ticking.


trip_tha...

Male, 29, Hawthorne, CA

Posted


quarter life crisis even haha XD

true, work is the best escape albeit productive you can't help but feel like something's missing at times.. you can always learn to tune it out..

as biological clocks go, don't trip, only women have that 35 y/o 'safety' limit on 'em. quite an unfair pressure to put on the ladies but hey, that's the way it is..

good luck on your journey bro, it won't be easy but don't rush.. haste makes A LOT of waste XD


Mis5Mom0

Female, 23, Kitchener, ON

Posted


Glad you had a safe trip home! I agree with the whole nothing is better then being at home!

As for the biological clock ticking...don't give up hope..you still have a long way to go... love will come unexpectedly :)

And eharmony? LOL I know people who have met off dating sites and are happily married...you never know until you try right? :P

Good Luck CT! Don't work too hard!


stormymami

Female, 25, Travis AFB, CA

Posted


I don't think guys have a biological clock. I've never heard of a male menopause. It would suck not being able to see your kids grow up because you had them so late, but I think you are good. I don't see the rush. And there is not a rule that everyone must procreate by the age of 30. Wait until the time is right. A last resort is adoption.


pnaichick

Female, 28, Millbrae, CA

Posted


Bleh... My "safety limit" or personal deadline is 30... And that's in 2 years! Oy... >.< Guys actually have a safety limit age too apparently. I read it in some medical news article sometime this year. Age is apparently late 20's / early 30's.


AlmostSANE

Female, 25, La Crosse, WI

Posted


CCHHHRRRISSSSS!!!

Welcome back! See...you missed S.C. Why would you ever want to go back to Boston? lol.

*High five* I think we're going through the same mid-20s crisis.

Kids are awesome. I wanted four kids by the time I turn 30, but I don't think that is going to happen. Thank goodness for god children, cousins, and Save The Children Network. :D


explicitFWA

Female, 19, Elk Grove, CA

Posted


"...when love took advantage of me, I chose work over love and never looked back." <---I feel you on that. Ahaha.

I have a feeling I might be in your position in a couple of years. Ahaha. So according to one of my blogs, so is it harder to find that significant other since you've stopped looking for years? Lol. Jk Jk. That's rhetorical.


pnaichick

Female, 28, Millbrae, CA

Posted


LOL - Aren't we a sad mass? So when love gets us down, we congregate to sites such as this and blog about how it sucks and what not huh? HAHAHAHAH


CTDimples

Male, 26, Columbia, SC

Posted


hahaha thanks yea PNC! you got that right!



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