Age is just a number

Age is but a number, right? Rarely have I given much thought to dating with regards to significant age differences between an existing couple...after all my paternal grandfather was twenty years older than my grandmother (which in hindsight is a much larger gap than i ever managed to grasp as a child). Take for example my own boyfriend (who is eleven years my senior). This much difference feels insignificant(though i feel this is primarily due to the fact we are both over the age of thirty). From personal experience I believe that a person doesn't even begin to discover who they truly are until they have left their tumultuous twenties safely behind. More pointedly, what I wanted at twenty-two was radically different from what I wanted at thirty-two (after all, our twenties only begin to lay the ground work for who and what we will become). I'm grateful for my twenties (though there is nothing one could bribe me with to persuade me to return to them). I enjoyed that particular time period-they were my post college years and a decade dedicated to discovering my inner self. And yet...they were painful (as growing pains tend to be)...For me, turning thirty meant finally being able to shed insecurities that only time can bestow upon us. I am so grateful to be moving forward and no longer feel compelled to keep glancing back.