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Don't you miss being young
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Anonymous
| Your 20s that time right after you graduated from college and finally got a pretty good job and you could go out from Thursday to Sunday and just have fun, drink away, dance with no care and no kids or spouse at home. Aging sucks. |
Anonymous
| It was heaven before I married Dickhead. Sigh. |
Anonymous
| Yes, there are a lot of things I miss about being a young, single lady. However, I absolutely love my family, but I can't operate as the free spirit I once was and that makes me sad sometimes. |
Anonymous
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I don't really miss any of those you mentioned.
What I hate about getting old is the prospect of losing my health (though a good portion of that is preventable through healthy lifestyle, but just inevitable things even the most vigilant among us will go through like menopause, aging joints, slowing metabolism, changing sleep habits) and then vain things like aging hair and skin and gravity. I'm 35 and pregnant with our second - and being AMA is a constant reminder of my aging eggs. But the dancing and drinking part, not so much. And my career is MUCH more interesting and fulfulling now vs. the work I did when I was in my 20s. |
Anonymous
| No. I have a much easier, fulfilling life now. I do sometimes miss the excitement of a club, or a first date, but overall, my life is better now. |
Anonymous
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I got married 9 months after I graduated from college and had a kid 2 years later. I love my life and I see each day as a blessing. I do miss the simplicity of childhood sometimes, but those days are gone.
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Anonymous
| PP here. I don't really miss going to clubs, what I miss is taking opportunities work, friends, etc., that I can no longer do because it would mean too much time away from, or inconvenience to my family. |
Anonymous
| I had enough of clubbing, drinking, traveling and all that stuff and don't miss them. And I feel much more comfortable with myself in my late 30s. The only thing I miss is sleeping when I want to. (not possible with a toddler!) |
Anonymous
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I worked my ASS off through college and after college. There was no going out from Thursday to Sunday. There was very little drinking. I "party" now more as the mother of a preschooler than I did in my 20s, if that gives you a picture of how hard I was on myself back then.
I much prefer my life today, with relative financial comfort and especially the self-confidence that comes from simple life experience.. What I'd REALLY like is to have the skin and energy of a 22-year old here in my 35-year-old life. |
Anonymous
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I enjoy my life so much more now at 30 because I am fitter, feel more confident, look better and love caring for my kids.
Never went clubbing, don't drink. |
Anonymous
Agreed. I think that my 20s just flew by, my 30s haven't been as great as people told me they would be, and now, at 36, I kinda look forward to my 40s. I love my DH and DC but we have moved around a lot (4 states in 6 years) and it has taken a toll on me. My career is in the gutter etc. but I do have my health! |
Anonymous
| I miss the sense of possibility and the sense that you have all the time in the world. I never clubbed or drank much so that I don't miss. I think I am in better physical shape now, but do miss my young nonsagging body. All in all - I would not want to go back. |
Anonymous
| I don't miss it because I had no confidence and was unhappy. I wish I'd enjoyed myself more, and I wish I'd let myself just be myself. I'm better at doing that now. |
Anonymous
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My husband is obsessed with his lost/wasted youth, but I don't miss mine much . . .
I am a little disturbed by my protruding belly in my otherwise thin 38 year old body |
Anonymous
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I'm 44 and pregnant with my second. About the only thing I really miss about my youth is my energy. By the time I got married at 34, I was done with the party scene. I sometimes miss my ability to make decisions for myself, but that is a function of being part of a family, not being older.
(I sometimes look at my six year old and miss childhood when there was no real responsibility, but not my 20s). |