NORMAL LIFE: Feeling old

Is it just a mometary feeling or am I suddenly getting old? A very dear friend of mine from Tampere called me this morning to tell me her news: she's pregnant with a second child and over the moon. I am overjoyed for her too.

Only last week, however, I called an old colleague who also lives in Tampere. I knew she had a baby girl just last Summer, but the two guys we worked with in Tampere have also got married and had kids too!

Where am I going with this? Well, at 28, I was the oldest in my department yet all the others have got educations, got married and have started families. Am I missing something, or is it cultural?!