If you could choose an age to be and stay (without being a vampire) what would it be?

Olivia

Olivia

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When growing up I thought the perfect age to be was 25. I guess now I'd say 35 or 40.

What age would you choose?
 

I'd say 40 as well. At 40 you're old enough to know most of what you should in life and your body and mind are still in decent enough shape to enjoy it.
 
Torn between 30's and 40's, Those were the worst of times and the best of times, but I was really hot stuff in my 40's. :p 30's I could still tear up the dance floor like a teenager.
 
I'll take 25, and in perpetual great health, indestructible. In truth, I have not seen a decline in myself, as the same applies to what I could do then, versus what I can do now. The men in my family all have been as I am now, with a sudden, precipitous decline to poor health and death, over a two-week period. Very odd, but a fact of life/death for us. That 25 assumes I keep all of my knowledge that I currently possess. I would not want to go back to 25, and have to learn the life lessons I have picked up over the last forty years, all over, again!
 
In my 70s I was retired and my time was my own. I was more spry than I am now. We enjoyed traveling around the west from the home we had in Arizona.
Now in my 80s things move a bit slower.
 
If I couldn’t keep the experiences, and thus, knowledge, and had to go back to work…I’d happily stay at 70


I’m just too freaking happy


Now, if I could keep the knowledge, and didn’t have to go back to work…hmmmm.......

it’d still be 70


I just enjoy working around 30 somethings, and at the end of the day, them finding out how old I am
 
Gary O' said:
If I couldn’t keep the experiences, and thus, knowledge, and had to go back to work…I’d happily stay at 70


I’m just too freaking happy


Now, if I could keep the knowledge, and didn’t have to go back to work…hmmmm.......

it’d still be 70


I just enjoy working around 30 somethings, and at the end of the day, them finding out how old I am
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60,if that sounds odd it was the age I started collecting survivors benefits from my late hubbys social security,I was able to retire from a job I hated which was killing my back and burned me out something awful.
I was able to move out on my own from a friend's that I wasn't getting along with.
Was only 4 years ago,lol
 
35 to 40 -- somewhere thereabouts -- but I'd want to take back with me the wisdom not to make the mistakes I did around that time period. I would sure like to have the robust strength and confidence I did then -- and to be able to RUN again (without damaging my joints this time).
 
Duh!! What age? Strangely, the age I'm am, NOW. Get rid of the physical malfunctions, and it's the age I am now. 40 seems to be the answer, so far; but that means I will loose 3 decades of learning things. 30 years of knowledge. I was pretty stupid at age 40.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Duh!! What age? Strangely, the age I'm am, NOW. Get rid of the physical malfunctions, and it's the age I am now. 40 seems to be the answer, so far; but that means I will loose 3 decades of learning things. 30 years of knowledge. I was pretty stupid at age 40.
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Ya....I might have to rethink my answer of 40. I was pretty naive at 40, come to think of it, and didn't understand that I was making the same mistakes and choices all over again...YIKES!

I think I'd stay at 60. I was retired, no kids around, and I was still skinny and could eat anything...LOL. I would not have ever gotten married and I could be able to go and do just what I wanted.

If I could go WAY back...when I graduated in 1964 I would have pursued a career I wanted instead of what my parents wanted me to do.

Oh...the time I've wasted :(
 
I have been thinking about this off and on for a while. I can't come up with an answer because every age seems to have its pluses and minuses. I guess my 40s-50s were pretty good but I was still a slave to the alarm clock. Now that I'm in my 60's life is a lot more relaxed but I'm not crazy about the physical changes that come with aging.
 
I was having way too much fun out partying with friends after a hard week of work to change my answer. This was after I was out of a bad marriage and began to live again. I enjoyed going to work until I was forced to stop. I think I was much wiser by my 40s than I'd ever wish to be and was in dating heven. Good times. But, as I said earlier they were some of the worse times too as it was those time periods I lost those I loved the most.
 

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