[Jamestown1630]

If I had known how much happier I would be when I was older, in comparison to how I felt in my 20s, there would have been a huge load taken off my shoulders.

I try to tell this to the young people I meet. You just get so much more comfortable in your skin, as you age; and you know yourself better; know better how to spend your time doing the things that really please you; and your emotional and intellectual aspects become much deeper and more complex. You also enjoy and appreciate other people a lot more.

I'd like to have a young spine again ;-) but otherwise I wouldn't want to be young again. It was tiring, too much trial-and-error, and I just didn't get as much plain pleasure out of living as I do now.

[Chickensoup]

I try to tell this to the young people I meet. You just get so much more comfortable in your skin, as you age; and you know yourself better; know better how to spend your time doing the things that really please you; and your emotional and intellectual aspects become much deeper and more complex. You also enjoy and appreciate other people a lot more.

I’d like to have a young spine again ;-) but otherwise I wouldn’t want to be young again. It was tiring, too much trial-and-error, and I just didn’t get as much plain pleasure out of living as I do now.

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I agree. I am much more comfortable about things. But there are certain do-overs.

I would have set certain expectations much lower.

Now I have little to no expectations.