Do you wish you were a different age?

[kimibrighteyes]

This is a spinoff of the age thread. I am in the over 40 group, but I am happy with my life and have no wishes to be back in my 20's or 30's.

I had to get new contacts last week and discovered to my horror that I need reading glasses to look at small print. The cocky optometrist who was helping me laughed and said that he had 15 years before he had to deal with that problem. It was kind of funny because I think he assumed that your life ends at 40. I told him that I had 15 years of life and experience that he had yet to attain. It made me realize that I am pretty satisfied with my life and much happier with it than when I was 20 or 30.

Would you choose to change your age - would you want to go back in time? Do you wish you were older?

[Deleted]

I've been wearing reading glasses since my mid-20s. Damn graduate school.

[lanyac]

I wish I were older. Like 29. (I'm 24)

[Deleted]

I wouldn't mind going back and doing some things differently, but there's no way in hell I'd do graduate school again, so I'm good here.

[crazygame]

I would like to go back a few years. I am not ready to have to make a decision about kid #2 and feel pressure due to my impending 35 birthday this fall.

[fuddyduddy]

I would want to go back in time so I could make some different decisions. Otherwise, I am happy with my age.

[orangeblossom]

Aug 22, 2012 8:22:48 GMT -5 fuddyduddy said:

I would want to go back in time so I could make some different decisions. Otherwise, I am happy with my age.

This.

[wallabyonwheels]

Aug 22, 2012 8:22:48 GMT -5 fuddyduddy said:

I would want to go back in time so I could make some different decisions. Otherwise, I am happy with my age.

This is how I feel.

[kimibrighteyes]

Aug 22, 2012 8:22:03 GMT -5 @redbellpeppers said:

I wouldn't mind going back and doing some things differently, but there's no way in hell I'd do graduate school again, so I'm good here.

Yeah, there is no way that I want to go through residency again. I also wouldn't go back in time to before I married DH or had the kids.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that needs the reading glasses. I'd be happy to get bifocal contacts, but they don't make them in my prescription :-(

[Deleted]

I am a fat happy camper at 30. Somehow, I get carded more now than when I was in college. The fat helps a lot.

[anna7602]

No, although I wish there were a way to cram in everything I lived and wanted to live/experience before having kids and still have the energy of a 25-year-old by the time I was actually having a kid(s).

I started wearing reading glasses at age 25 and still have acne at 36, so the physical ailments don't mark my age as much as how freaking exhausted I am after being with a 4-year-old all day.

[matildasun]

I am happy with my age, 39. I do wish sometimes that I met my husband earlier, so that I had my children when I was a little younger.

[Deleted]

I wish I were about 5 years younger. It would give me more time to think about having a 2nd kid.

[chessie]

No, I already feel older then I am and I am only 29.

[Awkward]

No, and quite frankly I wish I could be 24 for another couple of years. It's a nice balance between being out of school for a couple of years, but not yet being expected to have your shit completely together.

Once you get past 25 you're OLD and are supposed to act like it. TRUE STORY.

[Deleted]

No

[Velvetshady]

I'm happy with my age. Of course, my body feels like it's older than I am but I look years younger than I am.

I went to a winery owned by a coworker last weekend. And got carded by the owner's SIL as I was telling her I work with coworker--and as I handed her my ID I told her I've been working with coworker for ~16 years now.

It also hit me that I now have friends my age that have kids that can legally drink. I don't "feel" that old yet.

[Deleted]

Sometimes I wish I was younger and could 're-live' the carefree college days, but only for like a month. Anything longer would exhaust me.

What I miss most about those days was spending so much time with friends!

[GailGoldie]

I turn 40 in February and while I"d probably choose to stay in my 30s a few more years if i could- i'm not upset by turning 40 at all. My 30s were so much better than my 20s... i would never go back to 20s.... I'm hoping i'll feel the same about my 40s vs. 30s

[sillygoosegirl]

I wish I was a bit younger. I want more time to enjoy being child free without feeling like I need to worry about declining fertility.

[dr.girlfriend]

I wouldn't mind sticking around 38-ish. I had everything then that I have now, with less worries about health, feeling "old," etc. Although, having a three-year-old is much easier than having a one-year-old, so maybe not!

[raangoli]

I am happy with my age, but I wish I had done some things sooner. I never thought that 2 or 3 years would make such a difference, but it does.

[bunnysmom]

Sometimes I wish I was older so I'd have more things figured it out.

I hate that at my age (24) I'm still "building" my life, as in making decisions about my career, school, life in general, etc. and the anxious part of me wants to pass all of this and have more things resolved. I hate the uncertainty that comes with being young.

[Deleted]

I am really happy at 22.

[ejpint]

Sometimes I wish I could go back and do things differently, like with the knowledge I have now. But I really am content at 32. I was so insecure in my 20s, and while I was much thinner, I wouldn't trade the increased confidence I have now for all the size 6 jeans in the world.

[raangoli]

Aug 22, 2012 9:35:17 GMT -5 bunnysmom said:

Sometimes I wish I was older so I'd have more things figured it out.

I hate that at my age (24) I'm still "building" my life, as in making decisions about my career, school, life in general, etc. and the anxious part of me wants to pass all of this and have more things resolved. I hate the uncertainty that comes with being young.

I'm a bit older than you and I still fee like I am "building" my life since there are still decisions to be made about my career and life in general. The only thing that helps is you have a little more experience to help in making those decisions.

[adlove]

No, I'm young still but I feel like time is flying by. Maybe I wish time would slow down so I could savor 25 a bit longer.

[explorer2001]

If I could know what I know now, and be who I am now and got back to being in my early twenties to do things differently, yes. If I had to give up the knowledge, confidence, etc., then no.

I'm actually really looking forward to my thirties.

[mellie35]

Aug 22, 2012 9:15:18 GMT -5 sillygoosegirl said:

I wish I was a bit younger. I want more time to enjoy being child free without feeling like I need to worry about declining fertility.

Exactly.

[njohnson1972]

I like where I am financially at 40. I don't like the struggles of my younger years. The only thing I would want is my fertility which is all gone and my family isn't complete. But Hollywood makes it look like all women can easily have babies at 40 and that is not true.