One of my coworkers who is quite a bit younger than me (about 30) told me today that she's formally quit. We work in a gloomy, rigid, highly-mannered office in Japan where you sit in the same chair for eight hours a day and it's completely open plan with no partitions or cubicles.
Anyway, she told me she's had enough and said that, at thirty, she can feel her energy and life beginning to drain away. Said she wants to go and follow her dreams while she can.
Now, when I was her age and I said things like that, older people would tell me I was still a baby and laugh. So I told this woman at work that she's absolutely correct, that time drains away from you at a frightening, seemingly accelerating rate after thirty, and that she was completely right to realise this sooner rather than later. I told her it was a brilliant idea.
The best part is that her boss, a guy who has only just joined the company and is about my age, told her exactly the same thing!!
(There isn't a deep purpose to this post except to kind of reflect on how depressing office life can be in some companies and celebrate the fact that someone is getting out.)