Youth Wasted

quote; hmmm, so we've wasted our youth by your measure, yet you waste your time insulting folks on the net?
such silliness

See above post, if all you want is a chatroom, there are plenty of others

 

I know that it is certainly wasted on me... I don't even feel young anymore. I would kill to be settled down with a steady job, my boyfriend and some pets and a house.

 

Hi christine, good to see you back. Since i know a bit about your life, and have talked to you for years on here, i have to say that maybe you just aren't seeing the evolution you've undergone. You have tried many new things since i've known you..even things that you may say weren't so great, like working in the forest this last summer. When you first were posting you had not even had a boyfriend, and seemed a little isolated.

It seems like since then you have expanded your world quite a bit, correct me if I'm wrong

This brings up something that I meant this thread to say. In a way I feel younger now than I did, because of dealing with mortality, and knowing I'm not invincible. i took things for granted sometimes, now I'm thankful for what I get

 

I definitely understand what you're saying Gary. I have changed an incredible amount since I first started posting here and the older I get, the happier I seem to get as well.

 

quote BSR: They could be spending all thier lives watching football on TV, but instead they choose to participate in positive socialization, hone thier argument skills, and learn, learn, learn on these forums


good point and post rubin, you are another person who I've enjoyed watching grow up in a sense, as sad as that may sound.

Its good when you can learn through others lives. part of that is figuring out what you don't like, and I see no problem with verbalizing that on these forums

I'm more than willing to admit that i need to continue to grow, and i see "knowing" all of these people from far away as part of that.

 

...and I enjoyed growing up here.

This forum is a truly special place. It helped me find myself when I was young, reinforce my beliefs as I aws growing up, and live in comfort with myself now that I am "older".

I agree, you learn through others... I learned alot.

 

we luv ya lil brother,, dilli specialy as ya know..

spect to see ya here this summer.. no exscuses..

luvin you..

 

Here's another point you've brought up in my mind. When people say there is little difference between 33 and 20 or whatever, there is a huge difference in the fact that there was no internet when i was young. There wasn't a way to know so many people from around the world, and to read what they are thinking. To learn something new, whether it was new music, or how people live elsewhere, was far more difficult. I think in a way, it has defined a new generation of people who have grown up with all of this information at their fingertips.

I'm waiting for the "your only 33, why do you think you are so wise?" thing to come up again, but I think the difference is significant. i have never thought that people older than me didn't have anything to offer. I was a kid listening intently to whatever my grandparents had to tell me.

i think this forum helps with that, for those who want to listen, and I am one of them.

 

Thank you kindly HHB, I will surely visit you in the summer.

Very true. This is a whole new generation, and people are not catching up to that for some reason. We have access to everything... we have the potential to build up our minds with knowledge, or destroy them with commercial entertainment. I predict this generation to create some of the most amazing minds the world has ever seen, and at the same time create some of the most mediocre minds the world has ever seen. This will be very interesting to observe in a good 10-15 years.

 

adrian,, if ya look thru our photos youll see him..

first an last cig he ever smoked he was 9 ,, the americans that liberated norway were throwin them out like candy..

dood is straight up..

69 an still totes wood in the nude at gatherins an hangs an talks an spreads his tails of his life..


i was goin somewhere with this but its a diffrent song.
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hmm, interesting...yea it will be interesting to see where our generation is in 10-15 years. i agree with you on the knowledge part - its all about how we foster that growth and give off to the younger generations. shall be interesting to say the least.

i've learned quite a lot since joining this forum about 3 years ago...i've grown in ways that i never thought of. theres just so much this place offers, from worldy views to mediorcracy...just lots of information brought into one place to learn from...

 

aye hermano ,,, es lo que pasa en cada generacion ,,, no?


i mean aint that what happens in every generation?

 

Pues si... pero creo que mi generacion lo va a demostrar en un extremo a los dos lados.

 

I agree Fitzy, and its up to everyone who posts here to carry on the tradition of a raw exchange of ideas. there are new people here everyday

 

oh but lil brother,,, iffin we was to look back through history ,,,,, there have been those two extremes,,, its just that now those extremes seem grander because of technology n science so we dont look at those extremes in the same light that they would have at the time it was happening..hell back then something that we look at as little advancement at that point was grandiose

 

I do see what you are saying. There have always been extremes. I am just speculating that they will be more noticiable, but it is true that the technology that separates them into extremes will be the judge of the extremes and the thing through which we notice them.

Ironically enough, probebly every person to ever post continiously on this forum is more intelligent than many people I have met here at a college environment.

 

lol,,,, of course yer going to feel that ,,,, you been round the globe young man,,, and hate to say it our educational system her sux so they are as a whole gonna be wayyyyy behind folks from many other countries,,,,

as far as common sense, thinking abilities etc etc,,,, well we shelter our kids in in form that other people aint sheltered in and thats life in general,,,, we teach a fake reality to our youth,,, although most intelligent college graduated yuppy city fuck living in their million dollar house in a more rural subdivision driving a hummer would beg to differ from me...

 

That is very true. Most people here are so deeply stuck inside thier bubble of happiness that it is truly sad to see.

 

man i wasnt done typin,, my fingers got ahead of my brain... i had to edit the last post

 

Haha, I can't wait to visit you and just talk talk talk