What Makes People Tick?

 A long, long time ago when I was young and rather innocent, I thought I had my whole life ahead of me. Now, aged somewhere in my late-ish thirties I'm a lot less young and innocent, however starting up this blog again helped me realise something: I do still have my whole life ahead of me. Sure, about a third of that life is in the past by now. But all the rest of it, everything that's still to come, everything I can still do and see, think and share, write and learn, teach and accomplish... All of that is right here, just waiting for me to get there. Waiting for me to accomplish it and do it. I've heard people in their twenties refer to turning thirty as 'THE BIG THREE-OH,' as if turning thirty was something akin to 'this is the beginning of the end'. I can't speak for men, however as a woman I do identify somewhat with this feeling. While Western society has changed from when I was young, I still grew up believing that the best and most ideal & ama...