Yeah, the older you get the less you know...
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Yeah, the older you get the less you know...
On a slightly different tack, i feel it's important at some point to recognise you can no longer take your body and health for granted. That instead of feeding it shit and making it work hard over all that booze and whatever drugs one may take, it's time to start proactively looking after it.
And i think the best thing to learn in life is to take the attitude of 'i don't care' in relation to what others think of you. Literally to just not give a toss. Things become so much easier after that. Anyone can say what they like, do what they like, up to them. But it won't impact on me negatively.
After all, we're only gonna die some day, and another thing about getting some years behind you is that a recognition sets in you could die any day, so better enjoy the today i have.
And i think the best thing to learn in life is to take the attitude of 'i don't care' in relation to what others think of you. Literally to just not give a toss. Things become so much easier after that. Anyone can say what they like, do what they like, up to them. But it won't impact on me negatively.
After all, we're only gonna die some day, and another thing about getting some years behind you is that a recognition sets in you could die any day, so better enjoy the today i have.
Trufflepig
Believes it's not butter!
I'm 28, much more confident more peaceful, looking back I wonder why I did things I did not enjoy, like clubs that are too loud to talk. Why I used to go out when I was not really up for it because I thought I would miss something.
I would gobble shrooms like a real trufflepig, now they scare the hell out of me!
I used to take critisism deeply to heart, now I surround myself with adoring sycophants
I would gobble shrooms like a real trufflepig, now they scare the hell out of me!
I used to take critisism deeply to heart, now I surround myself with adoring sycophants
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
I'm so much more than I used to be.. and a fair bit less than I'm going to be...
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
There is a physical continuity, of course, and a stream of memories, etc, but in many ways, that person is not the person I am now. Mostly, what I think it is, is that I've grown up.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
I think she's saying that she'd have liked to have her present wisdom prior to thirty, but all things considered, better to be this side of thirty, with the wisdom.
It's still a bloody oxymoron man! Whatever she said, thinks she said, you think she said...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Echo what fela said about noticing physical stuff and becoming more conscious of your body - not in an aesthetic way, but generally getting to know it a bit better and generally being kinder to it in terms of getting excercise, not caning it so heavily anymore etc.
Personality wise...I've become more generous and giving to my friends, less so to others. I'm more tolerant of listening to people's problems (especially in my peer group) if they're new and novel ones, not the same old shite I've heard from them since their 20s (and in one case, since they were a teenager). I have even shorter shrift for people I have to deal with being idiots, but am generally unmoved by the general idiocy of my fellow man...also echo what fridgemagenet said about liking being better at stuff I thought I was good at 10 years ago!
Personality wise...I've become more generous and giving to my friends, less so to others. I'm more tolerant of listening to people's problems (especially in my peer group) if they're new and novel ones, not the same old shite I've heard from them since their 20s (and in one case, since they were a teenager). I have even shorter shrift for people I have to deal with being idiots, but am generally unmoved by the general idiocy of my fellow man...also echo what fridgemagenet said about liking being better at stuff I thought I was good at 10 years ago!
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
21-30 is an important decade but then they all are, for different reasons.
Part of the process in that particular decade - for men, anyway - is you lose that sense of invincibility. At some point not 'everything' is still in front of you and, if you have children, the notion of responsibility for others gets a turbo boost. Also, as others have mentioned, you start to come to terms with the extent of your ignorance and even try and do something about it.
Further, in a conventional life, it's the career defining decade; by the end of it there's a good chance you'll know your field and even have a sense of how far you might progress.
Perhaps 'experience' is something else again.
Part of the process in that particular decade - for men, anyway - is you lose that sense of invincibility. At some point not 'everything' is still in front of you and, if you have children, the notion of responsibility for others gets a turbo boost. Also, as others have mentioned, you start to come to terms with the extent of your ignorance and even try and do something about it.
Further, in a conventional life, it's the career defining decade; by the end of it there's a good chance you'll know your field and even have a sense of how far you might progress.
Perhaps 'experience' is something else again.
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