{"id":7880,"date":"2019-09-10T18:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2019-09-10T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T00:44:51","slug":"what-37-can-bring-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/i-refuse-to-get-old\/what-37-can-bring-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What 37 can bring you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"651\" data-attachment-id=\"7887\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/i-refuse-to-get-old\/what-37-can-bring-you\/attachment\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"950,651\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1561389415&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o.jpg 950w, https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o-438x300.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;Perspective, if you look at it the right way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 A three-inch white hair that grows out of your temple overnight. <em>Overnight.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Ideas, so many ideas, that will burn in the back of your head for days, weeks, months, years, waiting for you to feed the dog and clear your desk and load the last dish and answer the last email and sing the last bedtime song and fold the last towel until you feel the last bubble of the day&#8217;s energy pop somewhere inside your chest, near your heart, every evening. The ideas will wait for you. Won&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Time. Just kidding! Thirty-seven will not bring you time. Thirty-seven will take it from you in painfully gouged chunks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Melasma. What were you thinking with those long turns in the tanning bed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Irrational anger at the face in the mirror for not being the face you see in pictures that were taken ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Slow and uncomfortable epiphanies about how hard you have always worked to subvert your own needs to control and\/or manage the emotions of everyone around you. And how that shit is absolutely not an okay strategy for parenting or wifing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022\u00a0A level of done-ness with the aforementioned way of existing that will help clear a path for a different type of you. (A good therapist can help with this.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;A baseline level of happiness that you have not known before, that makes all the other stuff navigable. (This is related to the first bullet.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022&nbsp;Perspective, if you look at it the right way. \u2022 A three-inch white hair that grows out of your temple overnight. Overnight. \u2022 Ideas, so many ideas, that will burn in the back of your head for days, weeks, months, years, waiting for you to feed the dog and clear your desk and load the last dish and answer the last email and sing the last bedtime song and fold the last towel until you&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[200,355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-refuse-to-get-old","category-why-am-i-telling-you-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/48273601256_4ae9ec5c0d_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-236","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}