The dying of the light

[21st Century Man]

If you could fix yourself at one age forever more, what would it be and why?

[ApOrbital]

To shut this thread.

[ziggy328]

The day after I retire. I imagine it will be a wonderful day. Then groundhog that day again and again 😬

[Zio Di Roma]

21st Century Man said:

If you could fix yourself at one age forever more, what would it be and why?

30. I was still young, carefree and having a great time.

[sjabrown]

Hmm… probably the age of 35 which for me was 2019. Everything was a bit easier pre-covid: work, travel, finances.

[WelshPetrolhead]

2016 (Age 26/27) for me. Life was good, health wasn't playing up, things were stable. It's been pretty st all round since then to be honest.

[Onelastattempt]

22 for me, first job abroad, feeling invincible and not a worry in the world. Here I am at 66 wondering where all the time went.

[fat80b]

I think it’s always a bit sad to look back.

Sure Uni was good, I loved my twenties, and 30+ was great, but I don’t think I’d go back to any of them as that was then and this is now.

I’ll take today (and possibly tomorrow)

[Macneil]

25, cash in hand building work, absolutely fking clueless spending all my money on beer, dope vinyl and hi-fi

[oddball1313]

I’d say 32/33. Young enough to still be in your physical prime and old enough to have had the rough edges smoothed off and have a reasonable idea of how the world actually works

[Terminator X]

26. It's all downhill after that apparently.

TX.

[21st Century Man]

Hmm, I didn't mean go back to a previous time/place and lifestyle or vocation, as some have responded.

I meant if you could be young again, locked in, what age would you like to be?

[rayny]

Back to 1979 - Because I was still young enough to be stupid, but not yet old enough to realize just how stupid I was.

[Ityre]

Easy 24/25 no kids, good wage , getting my end away , no worries in the world so to speak , now 45 , dealt with divorce , CSA , passsing of parents etc etc , right where is that Time Machine

[3GGy]

8 years old. All I cared about was my push-bike and RC buggy.

Good times.

[Nethybridge]

1972 when a Rolex Submariner could be had new for £132 and the average house price was £4500.

[cobra kid]

17 (1991). First girlfriend. Lots of fun. Very little real responsibilities. Enough money to do pretty much everything I wanted to at that age. Good group of friends that I socialised with.

All went downhill after that!

[gshughes]

Nethybridge said:

1972 when a Rolex Submariner could be had new for £132 and the average house price was £4500.

£1,488 and £50,700 respectively in todays money according to the BoE inflation calculator - how times have changed!

[Ryyy]

Terminator X said:

26. It's all downhill after that apparently.

TX.

I'm 26, was going to say 26. I'm going with 26

Why? Life's good really, I'd be rambling on for a while if I got into it. Just good times,hakuna matata and all that

Edited by Ryyy on Wednesday 26th July 09:52

[anonymous-user]

21, i would like to be 21 again knowing what i do now