I Want to Be Young Again

March 15, 2022 Post a Comment

To desire to exist young over again?

(97 Posts)

HarryorHas Mon 08-Mar-21 15:11:52

Just that really.

Life was heady, less stressful, more than fun, I looked smashing, felt corking, had a fantastic figure...the thought of the hereafter was then exciting,

I'm non sometime, old (43) but god, life was good, wasn't t information technology?!

HollysBush Monday 08-Mar-21 15:22:27

I'chiliad like historic period and get waves of this feeling. Was reading my quondam college diaries recently and my life was so busy and fun! Literally anything could happen. Not certain I'd accept the free energy now to live like that now.

NeedToGetOuttaHere Mon 08-Mar-21 15:23:59

You lot're only going to get older so why waste enjoying being 43?

HarryorHas Mon 08-Mar-21 15:24:30

@HollysBush Perchance it's a mid life crisis 🙈
Honestly, it'southward like it was some other life...another person...

MissConductUS Mon 08-Mar-21 15:24:39

Youth is wasted on the young. I'm early 60'due south and the good role is that the kids are grown and I can retire in a few years,

HarryorHas Monday 08-Mar-21 fifteen:25:08

@NeedToGetOuttaHere I do...but I also miss it and then much and wish I could go dorsum and do it all again

peak2021 Mon 08-Mar-21 15:25:56

I would not desire to be young at present and be part of 'Generation Rent', or take to live with chore dubiety and all the other things that those in their twenties have to live with.

HarryorHas Mon 08-Mar-21 15:28:02

@peak2021 No, me neither, but back to my ain youth..need a time machine maybe

fpurplea Mon 08-Mar-21 15:28:35

NeedToGetOuttaHere

Yous're simply going to get older so why waste matter enjoying being 43?

This. I totally concur with you OP, but I've wasted my 20s and 30s feeling similar that. And I at present look dorsum and feel doubly bad that I wasted all those glorious years on wishing I was younger.

HarryorHas Mon 08-Mar-21 15:xxx:11

@fpurplea Yous wished you were younger in your 20's?

VickyEadieofThigh Mon 08-Mar-21 15:31:47

I do wish I could go dorsum to my ain youth and practise some things a flake differently (a LOT differently in some cases).

Liquorishtoffee Mon 08-Mar-21 xv:33:06

Youth is wasted on the immature (as many people have in one case said).

I wish I had my sometime stamina, figure and looks! And when I look at DS - xvi with all those possibilities in front of him, I experience quite dark-green (and very excited for him)

coldwarenigma Mon 08-Mar-21 15:35:28

Its when I look back and realise I wasted that fourth dimension trying to alive to others expectations.
The poor life decisions. The poor choices. Non doing what I wanted to do. Not having the cofidence or courage to make my ain decisions. Wasted years and now I'm stuck in low wage job, still unable to practice the things I desire to do due to lack of coin and responsibilities.

BashfulClam Mon 08-Mar-21 15:36:09

I'm 42 this year and we grew up in an amazing era, the 90's were brilliant, the millennium excitement and the works was and then different, it's hard to comprehend that 1991 was 30 years ago!!! Where did my youth go? My dh says wow xxx years so when we were at high school and said 30 years ago were were talking nigh the 60's which seemed so long before our fourth dimension.

DK123 Mon 08-Mar-21 15:36:36

I wouldn't like to be young now, but I'd like a time machine to go back to the 90s and then I could stay there forever! I wish I had the personality I did then and people who've since died were even so effectually.

HarryorHas Mon 08-Mar-21 15:39:05

@BashfulClam @DK123 Yep, the 90's!! We were so lucky

HarryorHas Mon 08-Mar-21 fifteen:39:58

@DK123 But that'due south information technology, why has your personality changed?

Tianatiers Monday 08-Mar-21 15:forty:29

I await dorsum on pictures and think the same thing occasionally simply I also remember periods when I was younger where I had really depression confidence and although my life looked fun I wasn't very happy more often than not. It's easy to expect back and forget that life was nonetheless difficult just in different ways. Equally I get older, even though it's all falling apart on the exterior I definitely feel meliorate on the within!

DeeplyMovingExperience Mon 08-Mar-21 fifteen:43:12

The merely things I miss is that I was gorgeous! Fabulous effigy, could habiliment anything... now I'm almost 60 and definitely in the dumpy invisible adult female territory. Information technology's tragic!

thebear1 Mon 08-Mar-21 15:44:11

I volition be fifty this yr. I know growing old is a privilege not anybody gets, but I am not feeling good about the futurity. I wasn't bothered near being 30 or 40 but l feels dissimilar.

noeffingwayyyy Mon 08-Mar-21 15:46:41

I wouldn't want to be immature at present AT ALL, only ohhh I miss the feeling of being young - waking upward on a Saturday morn calling friends to hash out the antics of the previous night, and getting excited to practice it all again that nighttime, meeting upwardly to go shopping and purchase outfits, being beside myself with excitement to meet a particular DJ or band, or go to a specific club nighttime, having endless free energy and bouncing back from hangovers and comedowns. Going without sleep for 2 or three days direct, and enjoying information technology. Non knowing who you might meet on a night out, what house party you'd end up at, or in some cases, what part of the country you might finish upward in by the following morning time! Knowing loads of people wherever y'all went on a night out. Making concluding minute decisions to go on ridiculous mean solar day trips with hangovers and zero planning. Not caring about paying the utilities until you got the red bill, living in your overdraft because it was worth information technology for all the fun.

A feeling that absolutely anything is possible, and anything humdrum doesn't really matter. That'due south what I miss.

IntermittentParps Mon 08-Mar-21 15:46:52

I practise also. I'm 46 and take shonky knees/hips, sore wrists, declining eyesight (it's always been shit and is but getting worse). What I used to consider perfectly reasonable amounts of exercise/exertion I now need an overnight to recover from (I'1000 talking things like a few hours immigration out cupboards/sorting and packing clothes).
My torso seems to exist merely wearing out. sad

sHREDDIES19 Mon 08-Mar-21 15:49:31

90s chick also, wow what a fourth dimension to be immature wasn't it?! For me, I'm an eternal optimist and whilst I would dear to re-live some of my youth again, I alive for the now and look forward to my hereafter. I'm 43 likewise with kids and a very different life to where I started only in essence, I'm still that aforementioned person but with the benefit of age comes maturity and wisdom (well, sometimes!). I'one thousand too quite excited to see the young adults my kids turn into. Having said that, I know that we are all biased near our youth and information technology 'being the best fourth dimension to abound up' , merely I don't think it'due south the same beingness young today. Whilst they accept lots of amazing opportunities nosotros possibly didn't, I wouldn't desire to swap it for a heartbeat.

toomuchtooold Mon 08-Mar-21 15:fifty:20

I recollect I would exist quite happy being 45 if I had the responsibilities I had when I was 22 (i.due east. none). I don't even call up I had more than energy then. I never got woken every. fucking. night by a child (the same one, she'due south on borrowed fourth dimension grin ) and nevertheless still I got tired.

I did await a lot better though. My face up aged about 10 years every time I got pregnant. Sometimes I run into people I've not seen since then and yous can come across them trying to hide the shock.

katy1213 Monday 08-Mar-21 15:51:07

I'd similar to be 43 once again. It was one of the all-time times of my life, old enough not to requite a fuck - young enough to accept fun - and enough of coin for travel. Glad I seized the day!

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