I was doing some thinking today, reminiscing about my weekend and how I went out to Dupont to watch the Madrid vs. Barcelona soccer game with friends. We drank from 3pm until 2am, because after the game we stuck around for the UFC fights. Then it hit me, this is it, you are only young once. The way your body feels, acts, and looks now will never be again. This is the time to drink all day, stay up late, and do stupid things while you’re at it.
Old people say youth is wasted on the young, because by the time you start to appreciate your youth it’s gone. Typical for a human to want things they don’t have.
You know those things you miss because they’re gone, but when you get them back you realize they weren’t that great to begin with and you start having a hard time remembering why you missed them in the first place? Youth isn’t one of those things.
I could be wrong, because it’s not like I can go back to when I’m young once I get old to try and re-live my youth and determine if it was truly all we hyped it up to be, and in the present a young person can’t judge how awesome youth is because they haven’t gotten old yet, so they have no basis for comparison.
However, I can assure you that we will miss some things from our youth, not because they’re gone, but because quite frankly life is better when we have them. For example, here are my top 5:
1. Good health
2. Agility
3. Beauty
4. Fast metabolism
5. Calcium in our bones
Feel free to add to this list, I am sure there is a lot more where that came from.
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