Youth's wasted on the Young

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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  • I’m glad not to actually be a young person growing up at the moment, the constant social media and pressure to be body perfect is something I never had to contend with. Clothes and trainers came from a local market stall. A lot of young people seem to want the ‘15 minutes of fame’ but once it’s a reality sadly can’t cope with it.

     
    If I had my time again I would like to think I would have changed a lot of things, in reality I would still have been an undiagnosed autistic person, I would have most probably still made the same mistakes. I still work with cars, I would have definitely gone into the building trade, I did consider it, after analysing it I decided I couldn’t go up a ladder.

    I would have liked to have traveled more, I got a mortgage at a very young age, the benefit was I’m now mortgage free, the downside was I couldn’t afford to travel, now I’m older travel isn’t so appealing.

    I read an article recently about how youths can sleep all day and party all night.

    The belief is that in ancient times the youths would guard the camp all night as lookouts, the older people would sleep and then hunt in the daylight. The youths would then sleep all day.

  • I'd like to be about 35 again physically, I was at my fittest and had the most energy. I wouldn't want to have to grow up in todays society, there are lots of pressures, but then I think there always were, it might not have been as constant because there was no social media, but there were pressures to be thin, to conform to someone elses idea of physical beauty, there were plenty of ways to get into fringe politics and religions.

    I wouldn't want to go back to being a young person, I hated growing up and didn't really start feeling comfortable with myself until I was about 30, I think it was because I was always being told I was an old head on young shoulders and did things that people ten years older than me were doing. I just want to have the physical abilities of youth.

  • I think you’re right, my 30’s was when I felt at my best, when I was younger I never identified with people of my age, they never seemed very interesting. I remember starting my first job, it was met with disbelief that I didn’t want to join the company football team, I think we have had the conversation about sports, that one is best left alone.

    I’ve always known how to mend things and how they work, if we ever had a workman in the house I would just watch them and ask questions, it was like my brain was set on record.

    I came home last night and last night, I’m still living mostly at my mothers house while I’m restoring mine. The flooring in my annex I’m living in was wet, I ripped it up and the concrete floor had water oozing out of it and the water meter digits were spinning around. I got the concrete breaking out and dug a trench the length of the room, two copper pipes had corroded in the concrete. Today I think every bone in my body hurts  I’ve capped the pipes as they had no isolation valves. Plumbing hat on today once I can physically move.

    ’Twiggy’ was on tv a couple of weeks ago, there is a new film about her life, she explained that she always had to look a certain way.

    I’ve noticed how much younger people are swayed by ‘influencers’, I’m sure they just used to be known as a salesman / salesperson.

  • I think they were too Roy, plus we had influencers who weren't called that, they were probably called fashion journalists  and style advisors then in magazines for teenage girls and women, I'm sure a lot of the content was paid for by Top Shop, Etams, Tammy Girl and C&A, as they were always the shops featured. I always fond them a source of woe as they rarely had anything that I would be allowed to wear or that would fit me.

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  • I think they were too Roy, plus we had influencers who weren't called that, they were probably called fashion journalists  and style advisors then in magazines for teenage girls and women, I'm sure a lot of the content was paid for by Top Shop, Etams, Tammy Girl and C&A, as they were always the shops featured. I always fond them a source of woe as they rarely had anything that I would be allowed to wear or that would fit me.

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