When i turned age 30, my wife really made it a birthday to remember. this was written on my birthday cake: REMEMBER, 30 IS HALF OF 60! Ruined my day.

I am much older than 30 but am only 16 in my heart. It is only the age of the body that shows the real you is youthful and vibrant but it does show impending frailty. Be prepared but enjoy your 4th decade it is a great one!

Yes I got very worried near the time-over the hill and all that.I met my friends in a bar,the evening went fine and I don't really think about it now.

I didn't have too much of a problem with my 30th Birthday. Just try to remember your 30's are great. 30's you still look great, You have been through enough to have some brains. Life is wonderful. However... I won't have any advice when it is your 40th Birthday, lol that is the one I had trouble with.

I had a horrible time adjusting to the thought of being 29, I took stock and kept trying to fiqure out if I had met my life goals and I came up lacking so I had a very difficult time. That time has come and gone it was a bit rocky but I got through it with the help of my family and friends.Good Luck and happy early birthday!

Start telling people you're thirty now. It's embarrasing to say I'm twenty, I mean thirty. Or continue to tell them you're twenty nine. Or twenty something (twenty ten in this case). Remember that in reality, no one knows how old they are since no one knows when they are going to die. You only know how young you are.

What's hard to deal with? You will be exactly the same person on your birthday as you were the day before. Wait until one day, suddenly and out of the blue, you look in the mirror and think, "Who's the old guy looking at me?"

Think of your age as twenty plus ten years' experience. I had a very hard time with 30; to make things worse, I found a gray hair the week of my birthday. Several years have passed and I'm looking at 40 and you know what? It turns out 30 just isn't that old. Yeah, you're 20's are gone, but I think you'll find you just start to hit your stride in the next several years. Your goals become more long-range and you take yourself a whole lot less seriously. My grandmother recently said she can't even remember 50. I can't yet conceive of it. Age is a number and every day we wake up and can get out of bed is a good one.

I was really glad I got to be 30. Everyday is a gift. We never know how many we get. Each birthday I give myself about an hour to stress or worry about what I haven't managed to do, or become or learn. I can choose to beat up on my self, or feel sad that this, that or the other has yet to happen during this time, if I really want to, if it pleases me to do so. But then, it's over. So, I'm getting white hairs amidst my long red/golden tresses...BFD..I have HAIR, unlike some cancer patients, or those women who have bald genes to contend with. OOOh I still need to loose 45 pounds, or even 50!!! I have food in the house and I know how to cook it so it tastes great; AND there are others in my life who live here that can also cook good food. Damn! I'm not rich yet...well if I had more money, I could give more away...but it hasn't stopped me from giving so far, so I guess I'll get over it...the bills are all paid and everyone has food in the house to eat. I don't really have a full on retirement account...shoot...well that sucks...but then too, I've made it a habit to only work jobs to earn a given amount of money as long as I loved what I am doing. If I don't love it...I move on and get another type of job. soooo I'm HAPPY, most of the time. Consider letting go of the worries you can not change and change the ones you can. So, you are older...hopefully, this means you are also WISER than you were...you've gained another year of LIFE EXPERIENCE to share and to grow from! I find I that I just have more fun as the years add up. It's OK NOT to be bummed out about it...you just might be perfect right now and even more so in 5 more years!

I started to LIVE. Do not regret growing older, Its a Privlage Denied to many ! REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY...GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. life is a gift but don t take it too seriously; LIFE: Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Remember: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - strawberries in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming WOO HOO! ! What a Ride!" Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them but you always know they are there We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. 'Veni, Vedi, Velcro' - I came, I saw, I stuck around. 'Veni, Vedi, Visa' - I Came, I Saw, I Did a Little Shopping 'Veni, Vedi, Vamoose' - I came, I saw, I ran like hell