30 Rules Of 30!

1. It starts to wrinkle around your eyes. Yes, those eyes of yours which you used the cream your mother recommended for years and protected from the sun, the wind, sleep deprivation etc. It’s pretty harsh.
2. You understand yourself better, you listen to yourself more and you become more aware of yourself. You become a bit more positively selfish. Or another way of saying this is you value yourself more.
3. Time goes by so fast. You get trapped sometimes thinking that your life is running ahead of you, but actually all you need to do is to stop and look around.
4. Hangovers become hard to get over.
5. When you skip the 20s sections of the magazines, it hurts a little.
6. You forget where you put things, if you took your vitamins or if you locked your car etc. Your short term memory betrays you more.
7. Your favorite soccer players are younger than you.
8. You start reading more about Botox and new techniques for anti-aging.
9. You prefer to get seat tickets instead of standing up all night long for your favorite bands.
10. You have to double the sets in your workout for your tricepts muscles.
11. It becomes harder to remember every story for every single hair that turns white.
12. You understand people better. Or the truth is you don’t spend that much time trying to understand them. You just accept things and people the way they are.
13. The things you couldn’t do in your 20s become more important in your 30s.
14. Even though you knew before, your expectations of others and life become less. But the best part is, your dreams become more alive.
15. You learn not to plan ahead in life. You still do put certain deadlines for certain things, but you know how to limit them and how not to get affected by them.
16. You understand men better.
17. When life gives you apples, you accept them as apples and deal with them that way.
18. You start cleaning your Karmas.
19. The thrill you used find in your 20s, becomes harder to find.
20. These three things become easier: When in doubt leave it out. When in doubt paint white. When in doubt cut it short.
21. You learn your Mantras better.
22. An old friend’s shoulder, saves the day and makes you forget all your sorrow.
23. You detox more: your home, your life, your cell phone, your fridge, your wallet, your drawers, your heart, your mind, your sketchbook etc.
24. You realize that you won’t grow any taller and you start getting stools for each room that are full of high shelves.
25. You dig the question of where is home.
26. You learn to breathe better and right. You practice more.
27. If you don’t sleep in your bed, you wake up in pain the next morning.
28. Even though it’s hard to apply, you learn not to be sad for anything or anyone for more than 24 hours –thanks to that special person who taught me this-
29. Your high heels become more important; for a date, for a meeting, for a crazy night out etc.
30. You understand your parents more and it doesn’t matter how good and close it has been, you develop a more mature relationship with them. But you still cannot understand why they never stop worrying about you.

Bonus:

The Four Principles of Spirituality you learn in your late 20s, rules your 30s:

Whomsoever you encounter is the right one, whatever happened is the only thing that could have happened, each moment in which something begins is the right moment and whatever is over, is over.