Category: Elder Folk
Hi all,
how many of you would lkike to be young again? I kind of would in a way, but most of the time, i can't tell how old I am. I don't fel all that different than when i was 19. if I could pick a time in my life to go back to and be young again, i think it would be when i first graduated from high school at 19. though I mostly had schooling taught at home by home bound teachers, i graduated from high school. I remember that day and ow excited i was. usually when the teacher came in and asked, how are you. I'd say, ok. but that day, the last day i'd ever have to have school again if i didn't want to, i said, oh, just wonderful, how are you. though being young again might be nice, i wouldn't want to be a child again.
wonderwoman
I only have one reson for wanting to be young again. It is so I will not have so many health problems. I feel like mentally like a kid all the time. but my body has notstaied that way. My hubby is like a big kid also and still chases my son and his girlfriend around playing and gets the dogs going also. I wish I could be more like that. I guess this is why I like to play games on the computer now. I never want to be a teenager ever again. it was not a great thing for me being half sighted and half blind. My friends and family did not know what to do with me lol. Have a nice day.
Yeah, I guess. Like monkeydoo, I'd like to have a younger body and go through a day without some form of mild pain. I hate arthrritas (goddamn word, can't spell it).
I'd really like to go back and make changes, I promise, I really wouldn't skip all those classes in college. But, that brings up the idea of changing history that occurs quite often in science fiction. I probably would amble down to the grassy nole on November 22, 1963, and... but, the idea of changing history is just too big an idea to consider here.
If I could go back and relive parts of my life, yeah, I'd do that too, if I could select the parts to re-visit.
Finally, if I had to go back and start at a certain age and relive the same thing again, probably not. I've got my memories to do that with, and I can sensor them.
Good question, no real answer.
Bob
yeah, changing history might be risky, and there may be some consequences at that. I don't think I'd want to live my whole life again from 19 til today, not unless i could choose what to relive and what to skip. I hafve read in science fiction where going back and changing history had some bad consequences, so i guess it's a good thing it can't be done.
wonderwoman
Hi Wonder. I feel eighteen but my body rebels against my state of mind. I wouldn't want to be young again because I'd have to re-live all the bad things I've done. lol. So, I'll just stay young mentally.
Hi dream lady,
I often joke with some people, that i'm like dorian grey, the one who never ages, or rather he never aged until he decided to destroy his portrait. a lot of people don't think thats funny and just ignore my little joke, but a lot of other people's jokes i don't think is so funny either, so guess that makes us even. there was a movie, and in the movie, dorain grey was a woman, and an actress, and she made a wish thatt the film would grow older and she stay young. she would look at the film shemade every few years, and the film aged, so she was getting older and older in the film, but she stayed young. she was playing opposite a young boy in the film, but he naturally didn't age in the film, so it sounded really weird after a time, I mean, this old old woman and young boy supposedly boy and girl friend.
wonderwoman
Right now, I'm 42 and in college, so yeah, I have my moments when I want to be younger again...especially when a nice young lady is talking to me and I wish I wasn't old enough to be her father so I could flirt in a friendly way. *SMILE*
well i guess it does feel strange to be going to college at a later age. I'm not interested in flirtingmyself, but maybe there'll be some later in your age range. I don't kinow if i mentioned this or not, but i think i'd like to go back to being 19 and just graduated from school, knowintg I'd never have to go again if i didn't want to. aside from that, i don't think aboiut it much, because i know you can't grow young again, and if i thought about al the things that happen to you as youget older, weakness, memory not as good as it once was, I'd get depressed, so i don't think about it much.
wonderwoman
One thing I used to fantasize about was going back to, say, age sixteen, and co-habiting your body with your younger self. You can watch things happening, but can't do anything about it.
That would be interesting, to compare your memories of an event and the actual experiences.
I think that there is a filter in our brain that helps our self image appear better than it actually was. Remember the good parts and forget the less flattering ones.
Just a thought.
Bob
I've read novels where someone would time travel back in to their own past, and meet themselves when they were younger. the older self talking to their younger self. that would be interesting i think. In my case, it might backfire, and instead of meeting my younger self 20 or 30 years ago, i might meet an older version of me 30 or 40 years in the future. that might be interesting but depressing at the same time. I probably wouldn't even recognize my self.
wonderwoman
As almost everyone else, I'd like to have a younger body again. I really wouldn't want to have the mind I had when I was younger, however, because I had a really bad self image and a lot of anger. I have mellowed out considerably now, and I like to think I have acquired some wisdom as I have grown older. My enjoyment of some things seems heightened as well.
well, I don't think i'd like to have the exact mind I had when i was younger, because i got my feelings hurt easier, but it'd be nice to have the body of a 16 year old again.
wonderwoman
Hmmm, I think I'd rather just be me as I am now, including any annoying aches and pains and my hair turning gray and slowly falling out. I'm reasonably healthy and I live a contented and happy life, which is a far cry from when I was younger, hated who I was, and was in denial of my own introverted and square pegged nature. I became a much more contented person once I discovered my true nature and became much more relaxed about it instead of resisting it and being all lonely and desperate about myself. Sure, I might speculate about how things might have been different in my past, but too much of that just ends up being kind of futile when I have so many good things right here in the present.
I'm 48 and wish I could have a body that is about 20 years younger with a mind that has all the growth I've done in my life so far. I'm enjoying the phenomenon of my hair being different colors all the time. Like now I'm told it is mainly black with lots of individual silver hairs. Well, it used to be brown, but it seems that the majority of my hair is now darker while the silver hair grows in. quite fascinating. I have some vision but not enough for all that subtlety and I was taken aback the first time I found out my hair was no longer the color I thought it was, but now I'm into it. I used to have an image of growing older that included letting my full eccentric self loose, wearing big hats with lots of flowers on them a la Bella Abzug, and sayhing whatever was on my mind all the time. Well, I'm not there yet but working on it.