30

So I'm thirty today. I woke up at 6 am with a headache, took an advil, had a shower, flossed, and got back into bed. I decided to watch the episode of Northern Exposure where Maggie O'Connell turns 30, so I loaded up the portable DVD player with season 4 disc 1. The episode is a great one, Maggie goes camping on the river to celebrate her birthday, with the plan of writing letters to her past and the letting them float away on the river, thus releasing her emotional baggage and achieving closure with her past. She ends up getting a bacterial infection and hallucinating from a high fever only to end up in a hospital in Anchorage for emergency surgery.
What did I get from this episode watching it today? How did it make me reflect on my own passage into the "middle years"?
I watched this episode originally when I was fifteen years old. Half my life ago. It seems like ages and ages ago yet at the same time it feels like last week, and all I could think after watching this TV show was this:

I guess that makes Maggie O'Connell 45 now.