The major gift of being over 29 is confidence. The day after spending a couple hours moping about the cute guy who seemed really into me until he discovered a 5 year age gap, I sent him a 3 sentence email saying it was nice to meet him, and that I would like to be friends despite the age gap. It’s great to realize that the wording doesn’t matter either way: if he likes me, he’ll answer, and if he doesn’t like me, I couldn’t change his mind.
I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll end up at least with a friend. And if not, for some reason I don’t care such a great deal about it.
Update: the guy wrote me exactly one sentence back. ”It was also a pleasure for me to meet an interesting and intelligent person such as yourself!” Ouch! Way to avoid the topic! He doesn’t even want to be friends with me if I’m 5 years older!
Post-29 confidence
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