In my head

Ok, there are of course a number of things rolling around in my head -- so here they come:

• I dated (slight exaggeration, we "met" a few times) a guy last year who said to me "I just feel it will be so serious if we start going out seriously -- I mean, we need to get going with buying houses and having kids straight away!". N.b. we were the same age and I had not mentioned anything about kids or living together etc. -- It's true that we would need to get our act together if we want to have kids, but isn't this the most unromantic thing to think in the world? I want to find someone to share my life with, as a life partner, for life, not be a child production unit with? Needless to say, it ended very quickly with him. Haven't been happier since.
• Perpetual child -- I am now at my parents' house in the countryside. They are lovely and kind and generous, but travelling up here with my sister's family as one of the children in the backseat -- is that really ok? 
• Life in a smaller town is really much more age-oriented. It feels more compartmentilized. This is probably because I keep running into people who I went to school etc, and they of course know my age. In London I was just a weird tall stranger who noone could place in a box.
• I have made friends with some fantastic people since I moved home, and they are all plus/minus a few years from me. I met with one of them the other week. And she brought along a friend who is her age. They are about 7-8 years younger than I am, and I didn't think much about it. Until the friend said - "but hey, what do you think about this partner-finding thing? I mean, you are about half a generation older than us, what are your perspectives?". I couldn't help getting really provoked by this. Was that childish of me? 
• Getting older IS in fact very positive. I have a solid ground to stand on -- both financially and mentally, work is a lot easier and today I have integrity and courage to stand up for myself. This has just emerged a few years ago and it's fantastic.