 Significant life changes may mark the beginning and end of every decade. Transition into your tatters is not any different. Whether it is career changes, financial changes, health or personal values, be sure to expect some changes. While some of these changes are general, others may be personal, which differs from person to person. However, general changes may be a little challenging to accept, especially if you are not aware of the likely changes or things you will go through. So in this video, I'll share with you 9 difficult things you will go through in your 30s. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out on exciting videos like this. 1. Your number of friends will drop. Your 20s are a time where you can accept a lot of things and a beat to discovering what works for you and what doesn't. So you are a little all over the place with your friends and loved ones exploring as many options as you can. However, now in your 30s, your priorities is on mind-growing activities. You are a lot more focused on your goals that you barely have time to party. You only care about living a healthy life and most importantly, you have concentrated on re-identifying yourself and doing only the things that are helpful for your growth. It may cost you to lose some friends because of the quality of your life from theirs is much different. They might not understand it and even those that do, they will equally be too busy putting their lives together to concern themselves with you all the time. You see, the truth is that people become less interested in participating in boring stuff that goes on the ground while building success. They only want to be a part of the success story. At this stage, it's easy to recognize such people because you are now more career focused and goal oriented. Hence, you cut them off, leaving you with just a few friends. 2. Realize you are closer to retirement than you thought. You know everything you've had about savings and investments in the time past? Well, you are about to pay more attention to it than ever before. I mean, you are in your 30s so retirement begins to feel closer now than it did in the past. In your early 20s, it was quite easy to assume that you had a lot of time on your hands so you could spend your money the way you wanted without paying so much attention to financial investments. Now, however, all you want to do with your money is save them for investments and future dealings. Multiplying your income stream becomes a priority to you. The idea of retirement becomes more real to you now than ever and all that you will be interested in is to start making plans and future investments to help you sort that out. 3. You will be faced with making a lot of big decisions. You know all those decisions that you kept moving around in your 20s? Well, you can't push them any further or better put, you can't toss them aside forever. Can you? Of course not. So, it looks like you will have to learn to make those decisions one after the other. For instance, you might find yourself making decisions about your family, finance, career, business, etc. all at once and this time around, you can't put them off as you did in the past. 4. Your body will begin to change. I hate to be the one to break this to you. But whether you like it or not, your body will change. To begin with, your face will start to look older. Well, you could probably do with a face cleanser in the past but now, you need a multi-step process and heavy-duty eye cream to look half alive. Also, your metabolism rate drops. Unlike in the past when you could eat as much food as you wanted to eat, now you have to consciously cut excess sugary and fast foods from your meal plan and diet because your body can no longer absorb it at all the rate it once did. As a result of this reduced metabolism rate, your body takes longer to break down food and then begins to store the excess fat. Eating a lot of high-calorie dense food will make it even difficult to break them down in a good time. So not only does your metabolism rate decreases, your activity level drops as well. If not properly attended to, this can result in overweight, obesity and other crucial medical conditions. 5. You might experience a case of pre-meet life crisis Every decade has its crisis. And in tatters, you are likely to experience a case of pre-meet life crisis. It comes when questions of your existence arise and it's mostly as a result of being stuck on a job for a while. Oliver Robinson, a British psychologist, while referring to pre-meet life crisis said, it leads to a feeling of being one thing outwardly but feeling inwardly that you are someone else which causes a discrepancy between your behavior and your inner sense of self. Yes, it's usually a strict process but the only thing that makes it worth it is genuinely discovering what your purpose is. 6. You learn to leave and be around children Whether you are married or not, you need to learn to deal with children because at this age, you'll find out that most of your friends are married with kids. So, whether you like it or not, there will be a lot of talks about children around you. It can either be things about diapers, nurseries, toys, etc. 7. You will party less In your early 20s, partying, clubbing and the likes were so much fun to you and an activity you probably looked forward to with so much excitement. However, in your 30s, you'll find yourself wanting to be indoors more often than not. You want to spend more time alone with yourself because it helps you discover a lot of things about yourself. Whenever you find yourself in a party, all you'll catch yourself thinking about is whether it is the appropriate time to leave. 8. You start comparing yourself to younger ones Now, because of the changes your body starts undergoing and because now, you find yourself thinking differently than before. For instance, parties no longer make you happy. You no longer want to be among the company of so many people at once. You are okay with having just a few friends, etc. You might catch yourself comparing yourself to younger ones at some point. The truth is that people younger than you will always remind you of how you spent your 20s, whether you made the best use of them or not. Seeing them will make you compare yourself to them for a brief moment. Whether to envy them or not, whether to enjoy the stage of life you are currently in is all up to you. 9. You'll be forced to learn to live in the present moment Your goal or priority in your 30s becomes learning to prioritize your happiness. To do that, you have to live in the present moment, not in the past, not the future. In your 20s, you had the luxury of knowing that your whole life was still ahead of you. In 30s, however, you keep feeling like time is no man's friend. It will make you treasure every second more and only go for things you like or need. Here's something that you should understand. The fact that these things may be challenging to go through doesn't mean that life will become uninteresting and frustrating when you turn 30. If anything, it is another phase that you will enjoy and explore as well. So your attitude towards the new decade should be to enjoy the best of every passing year that lies in it. It's that simple. Thank you very much for watching our videos. If you like this video, watch more videos on our channel and subscribe. We love you