If you're about to turn 30 in a few months-- (and you are if you haven't already)-- I recommend checking out Youth.

It's a short book by a great writer about how hopes and dreams eventually lead you to a place where you have the maturity to disregard them as the childish little distractions they were. Then? Well, then you turn old and lonely - only with the constitution to deal with it! - miserable-ever-after in the knowledge you never could have been anything anyway.

And then you die.