To ask if your life has taken a U-turn? Lighthearted!!

[Badgirlgonegood]

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I’m sat here watching BBC Three programme Ibiza Dreams, a documentary about 20somethings living their best lives and working the summers in Ibiza.
I spent most of my 20s working abroad in various jobs, drinking, tanning and getting up to outrageous antics in the sun and generally partying life away. This is putting it politely.
I met my other half and I am now happily settled 10 years later with a mortgage, toddler and an office based very formal career, where no one knows I used to be an absolute rebel 😂 and think butter wouldn’t melt.

Can anyone relate?

Me too with the partying. I moved a long way away which helped - no-one knew the former me 😂

I never wanted children, didn't have a maternal streak. Then I met somebody new, and got pregnant at age 39. Quite a u-turn ....

Sounds amazing. I had a few holidays like that but was a sensible girl from birth really.

I am so glad we didn't this level of social media activity 10 years ago!

Yes, I can sometimes hardly believe the stuff I got up to. Did not give a solitary f8ck and now every decision is analysed and analysed. You did not even back up a decision you just DID at that age! No explanation required!

The thing is I am sat here feeling partially nostalgic and a teensy bit sad it’s in the past but also equally I love my sleep, home
comforts and am cringing at some of the youngsters attitudes 😂😂 I also wouldn’t touch half the people with a barge pole that I would of once upon a time and also get terrible hangovers.

Yes!! I am now an anxiety sufferer and think deeply about EVERYTHING!! 😫

Oh god yes! Lived and worked abroad in a few different countries in my 20s and had a ball.

Now, in bed by 10 pm school nights and very rarely drink.

Whole different world

Mine took a different U turn. I travelled with my husband who was in the merchant navy, for many years. The tax breaks were good, it honestly wasn't worth my working and we had a good life. Then he was promoted into management ashore so I went back to my profession and ended up as both a senior clinician and a specialist in change management and IT/clinical interface. Since then it has u turned less happily when I lost my husband to cancer shortly after he retired.....nothing we had ever planned for or expected happened.

I think until 30 I would have considered myself an extrovert. I loved socialising, chatting, going out, just being among people. In my late teens and early 20s I lived in house shares and found it loads of fun constantly having my housemates, who were good friends, for company. In my early 30s I wanted to go out less and less, but still saw a lot of my wide group of friends. By 35 I was living alone, rarely going out, and entirely happy with it. I now find socialising very tiring and spend probably 80% of my time alone, and about 19% of it with a few close friends and family, and consider myself very introverted. I do enjoy company but instead of energising me it now drains me.

I realise that socialising less frequently is a normal part of aging, but it's the flip from being very extroverted to very introverted that seems more strange to me.