I wish I was 20 again

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Enjoy your early 30s at least. Before you know it, your metabolism will slow down, you'll start seeing white hair everywhere, and nobody will ask for your ID anymore when you order an alcoholic drink.

But you'll probably miss your 30s when you turn 40! So stop the regrets and live in the present.

I would if I could, but right now I am wishing the time away because I want the day to come where they find a vaccine for this stupid coronavirus so that I can live my life and enjoy it.

I used to long for being in my 20's, but then I remembered how cringeworthy it was. My naive behaviour and outlook of the world.

There's plenty of regrets, but if I spent all of my time getting wound up by them, I wouldn't be making the most of my life in the present.

I've learnt from my mistakes, and it's helped me grow and change as a person.

Yes, we often wish for that maturity to be have been projected into our younger selves, but where would the change and progression be then?

It's just part and parcel of life and growing up.

Don't we all? Especially if I could keep the knowledge and experience I've gained since then.

I have a very strong autobiographical memory, so often different times of my life flash before me.

It feels like I was 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29 and now 30. Being 25, 26 and 27 just flew by so fast that I can barely remember those 3 or 4 years. And now I'm 30 all of a sudden.

I'd love to write a whole story of my life so far. It all just fascinates me, the way each event in my life becomes another, and how I matured a little each couple of years, and the people that have come and gone in my life.

I wonder what the next 30 years of my life will bring?

I read somewhere that (to a pessimist) the past brings depression, the present brings stress and the future brings anxiety. That is quite true for me.

I've noticed that the older I get, the faster the years seem to go by, and everyone I've talked to about this seems to agree with that observation.

My theory about this is that, as we age, the same lengths of time end up being a smaller percentage of our overall life, so they end up not seeming as long relative to the amount of time we've lived.

As a 6 year-old, 3 years is literally half your life, so that's going to seem like a longer time to you than if you're a 30 year-old, where 3 years is only 1/10th of your life.

Ah. You have to have a special qualification these days to talk about things like that and you can only get the qualification if you are under 30 years old.... People like us who experienced it are ignored and our oppinions are not seen to be valid.

It is like those programs about what it was like to live in the 1970's and 1980's. They said typical family households had this and that (Listing the gadgets). It was rare to find just one family which had just some of those gadgets because the were just soo expensive. Even the wealthier people in my village did not have half of the gadgets the listed... And they were listing them as if people were a "Normal average family" living back then. There was only one person in our village who could have afforded all of them and he was famous... But I doubt even he had all those 1970's gadgets!

It makes me think that what is taught these days about the past was nothing like how it actually was. Some of it was correct, but the rest was way out!

I wish I could redo my 20s again feel so annoyed with myself because I'm jealous of my partner.

He does not have a degree where I do and he easily earns before taxes double what I do. I thought we were equal in social difficulties but he's not only had quite a few lovers but also held good friendships I struggle at both.

I also struggle at adult stuff like manage bills and housework be finds it a breeze.

I love my partner but there's times I resent his success in life which makes me feel awful. The only difference besides from gender and that he has epilpsey which is a recent development in the last 8 years is that he had a diagnosis at 5 years for ASD I didn't till I was 21.

He said though his childhood he was conditioned to hide or suppress his autistic traits as much as possible. Maybe that is why he's a more successful person at life than me.

Makes me at times think he's taking me on out of pity or civil duty.

Sorry feel depressed today.

No way do I wish I were age 20 again!! Age 35 is a better indicator i.e., If I knew and (had) then, with what I know (and have) now is fitting!

I believe everybody wish that all the time when there are old.

until then I’d always gotten good grades without studying one bit (thanks to the stereotypical Aspie memory I had for most of that time), so I never actually learned how to study effectively...


Sounds depressingly familiar

20 i lived with the boys, after throwing the dealers out of the house there was cold turkey and police raid when the shrooms arrived,
if there's three, there's an informer too
all/most\ these boys had been treated as unruly childen (in the sixties) and the aftermath psychosis of ww2 was strong in them

You have worries.
What happened to my 90s?

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This

Interesting theory. I also think doing the same thing every day (like in a workplace) makes time appear to go faster. When we were kids, most days were different - different classes, different activities etc.

I've noticed that days when I do something extraordinary feel very much longer to me, eventhough they do take a lot more energy also. I wish I had a job where I got at least some variation in the days.

I wish I was 50 again. I "had" LOTS of energy.