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I don't think I've lived long enough to make that call. People already assume I'm 16 at first glance, so I'd probably wait until I at least look legally old enough to purchase alcohol.
I have to say I am enjoying being an age where I appreciate getting carded. Also, I'm in better shape than I've been for a long time. But then I could fix that at another age. Hmm... I think 26 was a good year. My thirties so far haven't been fantastic, but not for any reason relating to my age. 33 is a good number too.
25. It's the age where you can officially do everything (in some random places you have to be 25 to rent a car or a hotel room), and for the most part, people are ready to treat you as an adult by that age, but you're not middle aged yet.I'm not hating my 30's as much as I thought I would, but if someone said I had to pick one age to stay at, it would be 25.
I loved being 36. I'm not so thrilled with the aches and pains of getting older. Right now, walking and standing are problematic thanks to osteo-arthritis. I would dearly love to go for a nice long walk.
The other day, I saw two women who liked like they were in their 60's walking down the road. Both of them had walkers and they didn't look like they even needed them. They walked better than I do. I had a momentary desire to run out there and wrestle one away from them.
The physiotherapist that is treating my mom took away her walker because her left arm is too weak to properly hold on to it. He is temporarily allowing her to use a cane. When he told her that his goal is to have her walking without a cane, she grumbled. For a couple of years now she's wanted to have a cane.
Sorry, I'm babbling. It must be the water here. I swear!
I think I’d like 27. 27 was a good year for me, I was single, travelling a lot and I had a great job. Plus I looked pretty decent at that age. Old enough to be taken seriously, but young enough to still be naive and optimistic about the world.
Plus it's a cube. You only get to be a cube a few times in your life. I liked the symmetry.
Helena wrote: "I think I’d like 27. 27 was a good year for me, I was single, travelling a lot and I had a great job. Plus I looked pretty decent at that age. Old enough to be taken seriously, but young enough t..."Great, so next year people will start taking me seriously.
Maybe you should grow a beard? I've heard that lends an air of maturity.
Sarah Pi wrote: "Maybe you should grow a beard? I've heard that lends an air of maturity."It did till I spoke :-)
I really enjoyed my two pregnancies, felt great and looked pretty good, too. But being pregnant forever would kind of suck.I like the age I am right now, minus the varied aches and pains. I am getting both wiser and more forgetful, but that comes with hard living.
I was thinking 32, but then I'd have a migraine almost every day. So, 45. Really.
I think 35. I felt physically great and a tad older and wiser than in my 20's. I had both my kids (I lost one son in 2006) and my Mom with me.
I´m 24 now, which is a pretty great age, but if I had to choose I´d say 26 or 27. 27 is a prettier number (the blue and yellow in 26 are too harsh and bright and I've always liked 7's, odd numbers almost always look better) so I´d go with that.
janine wrote: "I´m 24 now, which is a pretty great age, but if I had to choose I´d say 26 or 27. 27 is a prettier number (the blue and yellow in 26 are too harsh and bright and I've always liked 7's, odd numbers ..."24 is a great age. You will age like fine wine, though, I'm sure, Dutchwonder.
I can think of reasons to always be just about any age in my life. But there are just as many reasons not to be any age.
This reminds me of the part from Harvey, when Elwood P. Dowd said Harvey could stop the clock at any time, and take him away to do whatever he wanted for as long as he wanted, and then come back whenever he was ready -- and the clock would still be where it was when he left.
Sarah Pi wrote: "Stolen from io9...If you were to remain physically one age - permanently - while your mind continued to mature, what age would you choose?
Would you like to look like a 19 year old forever, even..."
I'd have to say 35 - it's been a pretty good year...so far. Although I'd like to be in better shape...oh well, guess you can't have contentment and a less flabby bottom.:)
26 was a very good year. I actually remember the night I was walking up to a bar and thinking that I looked better and felt stronger than I ever had. Can't remember thinking that since.
I would like my 28 year old body back. At that time I was trim and fit.
I'm in pretty good shape now at 48 (though I'm not sure I'd like to wrestle Kevin or Lee). My resting heart rate is 36, my BP is very good and my overall health is great. Why not stay here?
Phil wrote: "I'm in pretty good shape now at 48 (though I'm not sure I'd like to wrestle Kevin or Lee). My resting heart rate is 36, my BP is very good and my overall health is great. Why not stay here?"36! Wha?
Yep, 36. With that, and BP at 107/57, I sometimes wonder if I'm even alive.
I’m like that too, Phil. Barely even here. I don’t recall what my BP and resting heart rate are off the top of my head, but the numbers always elicit comments to that effect.
Twenty-one, hands down. No kids, no mortgage, no worries, no stress, able to carpet bomb my liver and dance like a spastic chimp at Ramones shows three consecutive nights at Nitro or at wild parties where the Ten Commandments were fractured quite freely and still answer the bell for work the next morning. And sleep until noon on the weekends, then get up and do it all over again.
Don't get me wrong: my wife and kids are the best things to ever happen to me (I'd gladly take a bullet for any one of them), but life was sure a lot less complicated 33 years ago.
Don't get me wrong: my wife and kids are the best things to ever happen to me (I'd gladly take a bullet for any one of them), but life was sure a lot less complicated 33 years ago.
At 21 you're still paying a premium for auto insurance. Go for 25.
Phil is ever so practical. What about life insurance? Probably cheaper to pick up a policy at 21?
See what I mean? You guys grew up. I never did.
Cynthia wrote: "Phil is ever so practical. What about life insurance? Probably cheaper to pick up a policy at 21?"Especially with Clark's plan. By 25 you're facing liver failure.
Clark wrote: "See what I mean? You guys grew up. I never did."I call bullshit, Clark.
If you were to remain physically one age - permanently - while your mind continued to mature, what age would you choose?
Would you like to look like a 19 year old forever, even if people treated you as if you were a 19 year old?
Would you like to have a few lines on your face?
Again, you're not reliving that year or anything like that, just letting your body stay at that age.