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mountain muscle
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If Vel's headed for a mid life crisis I am in.
No Vel, I don't think about 10 years ago really.
No Vel, I don't think about 10 years ago really.
gotmilk
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I was more in tune with the world when I was younger. I feel like my brain melted recently from all the BS I deal with. Oil deals, financial instrument sales, fuggin A-hole planning board in Aspen, casino shit.....
I was struggling at 24......thriving but kind of tired at 34....
As for midlife crisis....I think I'll skip it and just stick to my life now. I have a nice house, cars, etc so it's not like I'm going to splurge in some kind of old man crisis.
I'll pass on the need to date some 18 year old too....I've been around far too many to even feel the need for younger tale. It's a pain in the ass.
I was struggling at 24......thriving but kind of tired at 34....
As for midlife crisis....I think I'll skip it and just stick to my life now. I have a nice house, cars, etc so it's not like I'm going to splurge in some kind of old man crisis.
I'll pass on the need to date some 18 year old too....I've been around far too many to even feel the need for younger tale. It's a pain in the ass.
digimon7068
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as i progress in my profession, i encounter things on a weekly basis that force me to look back and laugh (sometimes in embarassment) at the things that i didn't know a few years ago. . .it's kind of refreshing and there's always that "good god. . .hope no one pulls that file and starts looking at it real close" feeling. . .
I'm not 30...but I think I can speak on behalf of others with children in that you find yourself learning more and more about yourself today, where you were a year or 5 ago, and where you want to be 10 years from now with each day that passes.
....holy crap, that's the most profound thing i've ever said.
....holy crap, that's the most profound thing i've ever said.
digimon7068
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Scotsman said:
if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit
ooohh i'm stealing that.digimon7068 said:if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit
i'm the biggest bullsheeter ever and people think i'm brilliant.
i think i've always thought I 'knew it all', even now. I don't mean knowing quantum physics, but i think most people like to think that they are holding things together because they have come to the point in their lives where they know how. even if that point keeps shifting.
i DO look back at my life then, compared to now, and wonder what the hell kept me going back then, because life sucked for a long time and I was kidding myself.
maybe in 10 years i'll be thinking the same thing about 'now', but i doubt it.
i DO look back at my life then, compared to now, and wonder what the hell kept me going back then, because life sucked for a long time and I was kidding myself.
maybe in 10 years i'll be thinking the same thing about 'now', but i doubt it.
I do often look back. Too much, I think. When looking back at a stupid decision or mistake 2 years after you've made it, it's different than when you look back at it 10 years after you've made it. or 15 or 20.
When are you "right"? When are you "perfect"? NOW?
I definately have a few "What was I thinking?" days behind me, and many ahead too. But if we can't or won't look back at our mistakes and think about and dissect them, then how can we learn from them? I truly believe in learning from one's past... From their mistakes. From their experiences. Don't just remember something, live it again in your mind because it will be different with your experience now.
You learn about your friends that way too. You can realize what kind of friends you have or didn't have that you never knew about.
When are you "right"? When are you "perfect"? NOW?
I definately have a few "What was I thinking?" days behind me, and many ahead too. But if we can't or won't look back at our mistakes and think about and dissect them, then how can we learn from them? I truly believe in learning from one's past... From their mistakes. From their experiences. Don't just remember something, live it again in your mind because it will be different with your experience now.
You learn about your friends that way too. You can realize what kind of friends you have or didn't have that you never knew about.
Sassy69
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I do recall when I was 16, thinking about how old I would be at the millenium -- 35... OMG that sounded SOO old. ... that was 6 1/2 yrs ago....
I was also told by 2 diff people that I look 10 yrs younger since I lost some of last summer's competition bulk.
I've already passed my mid-life crisis point - I bought the BMW, paid it off. Now I want a Yaris.
20 yrs ago I imagined working for NASA as a chief astrophysicist, probably w/ a comet named after me, e.g. P/Sassy ("P" refers to periodic comet). But it was rather a dream as I was still struggling thru quantum physics class. Now, actually possibly next week, I may have a director position at a bleeding edge hi-tech company in Silicon Valley... That is much more real to me.
However I'm also at the point where finding a sugar daddy may actually be a viable career path.
I was also told by 2 diff people that I look 10 yrs younger since I lost some of last summer's competition bulk.
I've already passed my mid-life crisis point - I bought the BMW, paid it off. Now I want a Yaris.
20 yrs ago I imagined working for NASA as a chief astrophysicist, probably w/ a comet named after me, e.g. P/Sassy ("P" refers to periodic comet). But it was rather a dream as I was still struggling thru quantum physics class. Now, actually possibly next week, I may have a director position at a bleeding edge hi-tech company in Silicon Valley... That is much more real to me.
However I'm also at the point where finding a sugar daddy may actually be a viable career path.
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heatherrae
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Around ten years ago, I was on top of the world. Everything was moving forward in life. I was just starting law school. I was footloose and fancy free and independant as hell. I think I stepped in landmines after that. I was better off 10 years ago. Depressing. Let me go slit my wrists I'll be back...lol.
I have a fantasy, seriously.
I want to go back in time to talk to myself and change the course of my life. I'm not sure if I'd listen, but I'd sure like to try.
I then imagine what my life would be if it had taken a different (better, more secure, happier and saner) path.
I want to go back in time to talk to myself and change the course of my life. I'm not sure if I'd listen, but I'd sure like to try.
I then imagine what my life would be if it had taken a different (better, more secure, happier and saner) path.
mountain muscle said:
Hmm.
I don't think about what I did but more about who I was as compare to who I am now. Some of it is amusing especially when I can watch others go though similiar process.
I don't yearn for 10 years past, it's futile to question what was and yet I am curious as to what is.
The mid life crisis - well, that was really something to inject some humor.
digimon7068
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Gymgurl said:
you're still smokin. . .who cares
blueta2
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When I think back, my only regret was not finishing college and getting a degree in Psychiatry. That is what I wanted but also wanted a fast car, so quit school to get a great job to buy the car...ugh! .....I'm such an ass!
So if I could go back, I would tell myself to stay in school and that you can get an even faster car when you graduate ;-)
So if I could go back, I would tell myself to stay in school and that you can get an even faster car when you graduate ;-)
blueta2 said:
Funny you should say that - I was going to get my master's in Architecture, was accepted into two school but was "too burnt out" to go so I talked myself out of it. I know it was a mistake in some ways but now 10+ years later I love going school - I'll drag may ass in there sick, without sleep, in bad weather because I'm so excited about learning I don't want to miss a second.
I can't say the same for when I was in college - truth is then I just did not want to be there, I didn't care and I just wanted a degree to the sake of having one.
OfficerNate
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I was a complete mess up until I was about twenty four, I'm thirty one now and still have plenty of room to grow.
