Well, I've just found the opposite side of this wonderful coin: when you get to be in your 50s, you really DO know everything!
So, my question: Is Knowing It All (we few; we wrinkled few) proper compensation for no longer glowing with youth, or having all that hair, or having taut skin without any surgical scars?
I think it very well might be!
Opinions, please...?
2006-07-27 14:56:57 · 10 answers · asked by silvercomet 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I sometimes think that ignorance is indeed bliss... but that's only because I sentimentally reminisce the times when so many decisions that have to be made in life were not made yet, and everything was still open and undecided. That's what I think people yearn after when they are getting nostalgic about their youth. As for being wrinkle-free and all that... honestly, I believe I am fitter now than I was back then, because of the things I know. When I was 17, I lived on Coke and chocolate, felt wired all day and had all sorts of health problems. These days, I KNOW what to do to be healthy, and I am. Besides that, I don't entirely agree that you know nothing at age 17, and everything in your 50s. There is so much you forget, so many abilities you lose, such a change of attitude. These days, because I "know" so much, I do so little I would have done in earlier times. I often wish I could go back to a time when there were things to discover yet. And I wish I hadn't discovered some of the ones that I have.
2006-07-27 15:09:34 · answer #1 · answered by Tahini Classic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you completely.
Well over the age of 50
2006-07-27 22:03:28 · answer #2 · answered by older woman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't quite got there yet, I'm still in the 'limbo' of my forties... All I can say is damn I sure hope its worth it because giving up my youth is a pretty high price to pay for all this insight and wisdom, I mean Damn!
2006-07-27 22:01:38 · answer #3 · answered by eggman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Odd, I thought I knew everything at 15, and life itself proved me right all these years later.
2006-07-27 22:02:56 · answer #4 · answered by ostrom57 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your gefilte joke was hilarious btw.
When I was 17 I did not think I knew everything.
I especially wanted to know more about girls and their bodies.
Actually your question is confusing the way you put it.
2006-07-27 23:35:00 · answer #5 · answered by Peter in La Jolla San Diego CA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 31. Yeah. I thought I knew everything. Now, I know that I don't.
2006-07-27 22:01:46 · answer #6 · answered by ScottyJae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I knew everything once. Then they added one more thing.
2006-07-27 21:59:44 · answer #7 · answered by patrick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a great trade-off.
2006-07-27 22:00:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will never know everything.
2006-07-28 00:11:17 · answer #9 · answered by fouramepiphany 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's an awesome philosophy!! I'm 30 and never looked at it like that! Thanks!
2006-07-27 22:00:38 · answer #10 · answered by fennamason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋