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Youth's wasted on the Young

TheCatWoman

I wish I'd have had the confidence and knowlege I have now when I was young enough to make use ot it, or that my body was still capable of that amount of energy.

I think I'd do property development, I just got my DIY skills up to a reasonable level when my body started packing up, frozen shoulders mean I can't decorate and use tools properly as my arms go stupid when I try and hold them at or above shoulder height. My back will no longer allow me to lift things nor will my knees, nor will my knees allow me to kneel or bend down anymore.

I could do without many things that come with youth, like a functioning libido, menstruation etc, but a fully working skeleton would be great.

What would you do if you had the energy of youth with the wisdom of being older?

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  • Currently in mid 30s but feel out of touch with modern culture.  There's a lot of things I don't agree with, I miss the years before smartphones, digital media and social media.  And when Nokia phones were the height of mobile technology before overpriced, homogeneous glass and plastic sandwiches.

    I don't think I would want to go back to being young, it is a vulnerable and dangerous time with so many corrupting influences and damaging experiences that linger decades after.

    I was never into adventures or new experiences, I only ever want stability, security and a semblance of consistency.

    Maybe it will get easier to accept growing older moving forward, as long as I can still move of my own volition and have most of my marbles.

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    Unknown said:
    I don't think I would want to go back to being young, it is a vulnerable and dangerous time with so many corrupting influences and damaging experiences that linger decades after.

    Oh I don't know - the corrupting influences were one of the biggest draw of being young.

    I went to uni at age 17 and lived in the halls of residence so finally had independence, freedom, some money and access to many of the things that were always forbidden to me by my parents

    Talk about a kid in a candy shop - I loved it!

    It takes some maturity to be able to be immature safely though and I think I had just enough to keep on the right side of the addictive elements.

    I would love to have a young body for my old mind again but without more of us old ones popping our clogs we would just be another person consuming resources that there are few of in the world, occupying a property that there seems to be a shortage of and taking a job from someone younger who probably needs it more than me.

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    Unknown said:
    I don't think I would want to go back to being young, it is a vulnerable and dangerous time with so many corrupting influences and damaging experiences that linger decades after.

    Oh I don't know - the corrupting influences were one of the biggest draw of being young.

    I went to uni at age 17 and lived in the halls of residence so finally had independence, freedom, some money and access to many of the things that were always forbidden to me by my parents

    Talk about a kid in a candy shop - I loved it!

    It takes some maturity to be able to be immature safely though and I think I had just enough to keep on the right side of the addictive elements.

    I would love to have a young body for my old mind again but without more of us old ones popping our clogs we would just be another person consuming resources that there are few of in the world, occupying a property that there seems to be a shortage of and taking a job from someone younger who probably needs it more than me.

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