Fake age.... what would your age be...45 is the new 35...80 is the new 79 and how about you!!!!

Why do i feel like DavePI.....

Dave PI is 13...

Well, if I could look 40 (I am 54) and still know what I know now, that would be fine. But I wouldn't give up my life experiences for anything.

I'll take 40 too. That is a good age to be with all my current life experiences.

I think 40 is very young....I'd choose 50 although that decade wasn't a good one for me, I'd (as Jas said) be 50 with all my life knowledge although sometimes ignorance is bliss.

35 I think for me with all of my life experiences. What I wish I knew then that I do know now.

6 so that my mom can dress me up again. My sister can put make up on me and order me to dance. So than I can take my new born sis in my arms and then be mad about the fact that I am no longer the baby of the family. Ah, what I won't give up to be 6 again!

14 was an amazing age. Still a kid with springing adult ideas and aspirations, finally cleaning my room because I wanted to, big enough so my older sisters stopped punching me, hanging out with friends without asking. I would be 30 every year for the rest of my life!

I'd take 26 years. That was when I was enjoying my career as an adm. assist. Wished that I went to Japan when my boss offered to pay for airfare for hubby and me. Hubby said no because the cost should include hotel stay. Should've went by myself and used the excused that it was for work. Yup, had a generous boss that offered to pay for round trip airfare to Japan for one week. Hubby was stupid. Haven't gone to Japan yet but I made sure that if an opportunity came up for my kids to go to Japan, I'll make sure that they can go. Hubby past away some years ago. So, my city has a sister city program. Both of my kids went to Japan for three weeks during the summer time before their junior year at high school and became student ambassadors with the sister city program.

Catgranny, I lived in Japan for 3 years when I was a child during the Vietnam War...my father was a Colonel in the AF and was a pilot flying missions there. I remember it very well. However, it was Okinawa and the people there kinda have their own thing going on and are fiercely independent. But we made trips to the mainland on several occasions. It was amazing then, I can't imagine what it must be like now.

I am rethinking my stance on my age and thinking I would like to just stay the age I am and not get any older. I feel good, I still look pretty good (a few more wrinkles than when I was 40 but not too many). If I ever had to do menopause twice...arghhh.

I think 40 would be about right for me.

I'm rethinking my age and take back 50...as I remember my younger years, I have a few I'd love to re-do.
When I was 18 my dream was to be an airline hostess and I applied at TWA to be told I needed my Mothers
signature, as the age then was 21...she wouldn't sign, long story, but going back now I could do it age is now 18.
Wouldn't go back, but I made sure my daughter was well traveled, at 4 months we went to SF to see family, 18 months, we went to Mexico City, 15 years old in high school (after divorce I alone) took her to London,and Paris on a museum tour, after college she lived in London and I traveled to Europe for visits, have been to London,Scotland, Paris, italy/Venice, Austria...so I made up for it. Next would be 25 when I met my ex who was the Appraiser for Caesars palace and took me first class.....fun, if I knew then what I know now, as the saying goes. Many good years over a lifetime . The thirties for me had to be the best, my daughter was born when I was 35, thrilled to the core.......what's ahead LOL



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In my 20s I owned and operated a florist shop, I made a lot of money but I had no life, worked all the time, and the stress of it was awful. In my 30s I was a massage therapist, but my string of losing relationships was still going on and I was less stressed, successful still, but still lonely. I met my honey when in my late 30s and things have been pretty great ever since.

Jas, after my divorce I started a small at home business "Simply Silks" making silk flower arrangements, ended up being for fun, as I ended giving arrangements away to friends that liked them...lasted 6 months...LOL

Even to this day I am not fond of cut flowers and on Valentine's Day my husband buys me plants. I have a really pretty orchid he bought me this year that is still alive and blooming. I have a hard time keeping them alive for much longer than 6 months to 1 year because our greatroom where I keep all of my plants has high ceilings and it gets chilly in there. For some reason my other tropical plants do fine but not the orchids. I would love to have a greenhouse...

I love flowers, real, silk all of them. I planted pots and am surprised in this weather they are blooming, we've had 3 days of serious heavy rain, and cold (for us), and they survived. I'll cut a few daffidils from the front entry and they last about a week.. I still have the silk flower arrangement I made years ago in my bedroom, looks like new.
I keep silk roses red and pink on my dining room table and am asked who sent them.....but nothing beats getting fresh flowers from a love...LOL



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I think cutting them out of your garden is an entirely different thing, and a rosebush would always make me happier than a dozen roses sent to me in an arrangement. It's still a nice gesture, though.

I was married at 26, my son was born at 27. Now that I'm 40, I can't decided if before marriage is the best age, or sometime in between. I sure did enjoy reading every one's wish lists for "going back in time".

@JASFLALMT wrote:

Dave PI is 13...

haha.....true 'dat!!!

Anyhow, I'm turning 65 on Friday, so if I could go back, I wonder what age???? So many notable moments in each decade! I suppose I'd go back to 1987, when I met my true soul-mate.....we met in Feb, he proposed in March, we married in May, I got pregnant in July, then he was killed by a drunk driver in Sept.....all that in 7 short months!! I delivered my child as a widow. But I have a beautiful, wonderful grown-up & married son now, with a wonderful daughter-in-law and beautiful 2+ yr old granddaughter. I did remarry when my son was near toddler age. My husband now is wonderful, kind and compassionate, and I wouldn't trade him for anyone else's husband! But he's truly not my soul-mate....my late-husband was. I truly believe we only have one soul-mate per person in our lifetime, and my late hubby was it. But I've rambled on and on here!! But I wish I could go back to 1987, and tell my then-hubby to stay home from work that day in Sept. instead of driving to work at 6:45 in the morning, and then........

Oh, guysmom, that's so sad.

@guysmom...so sorry for your loss...brought me to tears, and yet we survive....much happiness to you I know how thankful you are for your son...



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Definitely 43, I couldn't give up any of my kids. But only if I could keep the knowledge I have now. I would have passed on buying my dream house. I'll never forget the 6 years I lived in it. But that old house was expensive to live in and during that time my last daughter was in high school and now college. I amassed too much credit card debt, started mystery shopping to help, and I am still working all the time. Things will finally improve a little this year, and I am looking forward to it.

I would not change my age, overall. In a perfect world, I would combine selected aspects of earlier ages with the present. It is always the present.

@JASFLAMT wrote:

Oh, guysmom, that's so sad.

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

@guysmom...so sorry for your loss...brought me to tears, and yet we survive....much happiness to you I know how thankful you are for your son...

Thank you both for your kind thoughts. I was 35 when my son was born, and re-married about a year later. We've had our ups and downs, like all married couples, and we've gone through a lot together, which has binded us up to each other. My Christian faith pulled me through a very, very difficult time back then, and also through the years. It would be interesting to go back to 35 years of age and see how things would have turned out with my late husband, though!
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Another age I'd like to go back to would be around 5 or 6 years old. My family lived in a small house, but up the road from a salt water river...which, back in those days, was clean and unpolluted! I LOVED going down to the river at low tide and walking WAY out into the mud, sitting down in the water, digging through the mud and finding quahogs (or, as others call them, hard shell clams), cracking them on rocks in the water and then eating them whole and raw....YUM YUM!!! Couldn't do that now....too many waters are polluted. But I'd like to go back for a few days to that age and eat quahogs to my heart's content!!!

ETA: Quahogs is pronounced: "Ko-hogs".....go figure!!

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guysmom,
I too was moved by your loss and can't imagine the joy intertwined with your deepest sorrow that you must have felt with the birth of your son, left wondering in your husband's absence what could have been...
But before I got to your post and as I continued to scroll through the others, I would have to say 28.
I met my husband just before my 10 year high school reunion and still remember the first time I laid eyes on him. Actually it was mutual, that recall. A bit like Dave and Maddie, of Moonlighting fame, we had a combustible banter. I held him to his offer to buy drinks after work after a brutal late lunch rush when I was closing. It was April Fool's Day, so he probably thought he could just toss it out there and get away with it. He had to take a raincheck, conflict that night, but we went out on April 4. On November 4, I asked him to marry me. We were back at the restaurant that we first met at for wine one night. I remembered to get down on one knee and everything as his eyes welled up with tears and he accepted. At our wedding, I used my something old bought vintage handkerchief to wipe the tears from his eyes and my matron of honor's eyes. One of my co-workers thought that was cool as I pivoted between the two..
Ups and downs yes...especially with our oldest. But no matter where we end up, I will always remember that feeling when I first laid eyes on him, that he was the one. I don't form attachments easily.

And Happy Birthday guysmom!

@CABZmom wrote:

And Happy Birthday guysmom!

Thanks! The BIG 65!! Medicare, Medicare, Medicare!! I've been INUNDATED these past few months!! But I believe I've got one picked out! Phew....glad THAT'S over...haha!!!

Yes, happy birthday!!!