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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I hear what you're saying, and I definitely do long for my youth.  Mainly for the large amount of choices I had in my 20s which I don't have today.  When I hear about college students choosing their major or starting their freshman year, I am wistful of the wide options of choices available to them.  For instance, I long for my college days when I had every career option available to me and where exploring careers was encouraged.  And then also having a ton of different options on where to live geographic-wise.  As the decades go by, one's options for both career and geographic location start to narrow.  Now, with a house/mortgage and careers here in this area, it becomes much harder to just pick up and move to another exciting city just for the experience.  However, I don't have that many regrets regarding these two issues because I did go back to grad school in my early 30's, got a new master's degree in a totally different field, and am now working in that career and am very happy I made the change.  Additionally, at age 30, DH and I made a major move from the city we had been in to a different city, just for the experience of living in a new and different city.  So I am happy to have those experiences, and I know that making a major career change or moving to a new city can be done, it's just easier to do this when you're younger and not as tied down.

I also long for the carefree outlook I had in my 20s.  While I did have some worries about some things, they were nowhere near the anxiety/worry I have now about a lot of different things.

Appearance-wise, yes, my hair is about 40% gray now, and my body has become doughy and middle-aged looking, but overall I don't long for my youth re: appearance.  I think I would look more or less the same if I started coloring my hair and worked out with a trainer to address the doughy areas.  It's more that I long for my youth for the breadth of choices available.[/quote]

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