I love the now -or- i wish it was then?

I'm almost 64 and today, right now - I think I would choose 20 again. I know years cloud the memory and the good things and times are what we remember - but oh the freedom, the energy, the curiosity, laughter, friends. The wonder of it all. All those things seem like they were more intense, more real then. Today I think I would choose to be 21 again and in the same circumstance I was in 1970.
And you?

 

I am totally cool with who I am now! I still have freedom, energy, curiosity and more importantly have not lost that zest for living. Bring it on!

 

I think I'd rather just freeze time right now, and stay the age I am, without getting any older. I'm healthy, happy, and I have the time and means to do just about anything I care to. I don't have to be concerned about a job or getting pregnant or pleasing my parents or any such things.

Physically, I can do pretty much everything I did when I was younger ... I just can't do it as much or as often.

Twenty-one was a hell of a time though, wasn't it?

 

I can't really remember

 

There is a lot of truth in that. My memory banks have been scrubbed on numerous occasions - But the snapshots I still have stored are wonderful.

 

I have been 21 for years.

 

Sweet answer!

I waiver between wanting to be younger and being happy with the age I am. I think the only reason I would want to be younger is for vanity though. Otherwise, mentally, I am better now. However, if I could be 27 with the wisdom I have now ..... eace:

 

I'd only go back if I could take the knowledge I have now with me. Some things I would do differently for sure.

 

I was way too uptight then. No way am I going back there. I like who I am and where I am today.

OTOH, if you gave me a time machine and said I could travel back to any place and time, still being who I am today, hell yes, I'd go, at least for a visit.

 

"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then," Bob Seger.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

I am 23,now I feel current I am very good, I like that the present lives, there is intense emotion, there is interest studying new thing, investigate living fine

 

Right on dude - You're 23 - go somewhere far away, do crazy things, get stoned when it's opportune, love lots of people. Make memories. You either die or get old - make things to remember when you get old. Peace & Love Brother

 

:iagree: On the mark!!

 

Might as well love life where you are planted. Health and happiness will never override youth and misery.

Life is full of memories, some bad, very bad, can't mention & happiness. I have found that my life is just what I make it. I love people, I am tolerant of most things and care about my family. My days as a reckless hippie are now transfered to a mellow aging hippie. I can now see more clearly about life. I am today who I have always been, just quieter and older. I still have a voice and believe in justice and fairness. and keeping with my love: You are never to old to hug a tree. Peace.

 

Yes. l feel the same way.

 

The Time Machine would be wonderful. I like where I am also, with my memories, life and the friends I have maintained along the way.

 

I'm 26 and my biggest fear is that when I finally have the means to do everything I want to do today, I won't have the same thirst and drive that I do now.

I think as long as you can keep the passion and thirst, age doesn't really matter.

The real question here is how many of you guys still have the same passion for life that you did when you were in your twenties?

 

Excellent points and an excellent question. I would venture to say that most people my age have more passion for life. I certainly do. But it's a different kind of passion. I'm not a different person than I was 40 years ago ... I'm simply a broader, more experienced, and hopefully wiser version of the same person. I have a better perspective on things. I'm more suspicious of single causes and single cures. I don't shoot from the hip as much. I don't have the tendency to blame everything, in knee-jerk fashion, on the government or on this political party or that.

I think human beings are both better and worse than I did back then. What I mean is ... the best among us are even better than I thought, and the worst among us are even worse than I thought.

I think the biggest problem we face today has nothing to do with what political party one belongs to. The biggest problem we face today is the degree of polarization between the so-called liberals and conservatives. It's worse now than I think I've ever seen it in my life, even worse than in the hippie-led student activist days of the 60's and 70's.

I'm betting that you will. But as I say, I'll predict that your passion will be different. It will have mellowed, but that's a good thing. People like you, Meliai, in their 20's and 30's, are the creative juice that fuels civilization, but at the same time it's people my age who temper it, who help to smooth out the bumps that come from not yet having a deeper perspective.

 

I wanna ride it, too!!!