Sean Bonner, who runs the sixspace gallery here in LA and also started Metroblogging, the rapidly growing city-centric blog empire, is about to turn 30. It’s great to see someone in my age-range having done so many cool and impressive things. It’s also fun to see him freak out a little at turning 30. While I’m eagerly awaiting his chronicle of “definitive points”, where his life could have swung in an entirely different direction, it made me really happy when he compared life to The Legend of Zelda:

It’s hard to describe but if you think of a RPG video game like, I dunno, Legend of Zelda or something. You have to run around and do all these things and collect all these items to pass to the next level. Sometimes you can pass to the next level but if you don’t have everything you need then you come to a point where you can’t go any further and you have to go back and get whatever it is you missed. I see 30 as very much a milestone like moving onto the next level and I’m freaking out because I don’t know if I did everything I was supposed to do by this point.

He couldn’t have echoed my sentiments more, in a more-appropriate way; I’m feeling the same thing in my lead-up to 25. If only life had an Ocarina of Time…

[via Doc Searls]