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Oh to be 19 again...
#5504347 - 04/11/06 04:41 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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It was warm, sunny, and utterly beautiful out today. So, I decided to go for a bike ride.
I meandered my way through several neighborhoods and I found myself in the "college part of town". There were college kids all over the place because it was a nice day. I saw barbecuing on front porches, pick-up basketball and football games, frisbee flinging, beautiful girls everywhere, and young people just having a good time in general. I immediately got an intense desire to go back to college. This whole scene that was playing out before me looked incredibly fun and I wanted to be a part of it. To anybody who is 18-21 and they are reading this....these years are the best years of your life. Do not waste them.
As I exited the college part of town I realized something; I'm old. I'm 26 going on 27. Those care-free years are gone and I can't get them back no matter how hard I try to relive them. I now acutely understand why middle-aged guys get sports cars during their mid-life crisis years.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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To Anybody 21 - 27 and they are reading this...these are the best years of your life. Do not waste them.
See the difference? It's all relative dude...I'm 36.
Every single day of your life is going to be 'the good ol days' eventually....never look back.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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shit, my college sucks. where is this neverland?
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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you can still do most of that stuff with people your own age?
I know I do... my best years will be 27-30 when I finally realize I'm an adult.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: blink]
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well put rono.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: PurpleKush]
#5504403 - 04/11/06 04:59 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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PurpleKush said: shit, my college sucks. where is this neverland?
The "Oakland" neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh are right next to each other there. There are about 40,000-50,000 college students meandering about at any one time.
I swear...it was like a Playboy Playmate convention in that neighborhood today.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: blink]
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blinkidiot said: you can still do most of that stuff with people your own age?
Of course you can, but life becomes different. Your life changes when you "grow up", start paying bills, don't live in an area full of young people, etc.. It seems as if everybody my age is getting married and having kids. Care-free times seem to be fewer and fewer as the years go on.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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bills suck, but don't you kind of like having that responsibility? knowing your independant? working a days worth of work, and coming home to your own place? cracking a beer, and lighting one up knowing you earned it?
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: funkymonk]
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funkymonk said: bills suck, but don't you kind of like having that responsibility? knowing your independant? working a days worth of work, and coming home to your own place? cracking a beer, and lighting one up knowing you earned it?
Considering that I'm a trust fund baby........no.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: funkymonk]
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funkymonk said: bills suck, but don't you kind of like having that responsibility? knowing your independant? working a days worth of work, and coming home to your own place? cracking a beer, and lighting one up knowing you earned it?
Fuck yes.
Cheers to that.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504455 - 04/11/06 05:12 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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funny you should post this here. i was among those you witnessed having carefree fun today in oakland. did you happen to cruise past flagstaff hill? you probably rolled within 100 yds of me.
i am lucky, no classes on tuesdays, chilled there all day tossing discs with my hippie friends, some chronic n some yingling, on this beautiful day.
we dont discriminate by age tho. there are def some old heads on flagstaff that i can relate to and are enjoying themselves way more than your typical pitt student, and i am 19. i can't imagine you feeling uncomfortable or "old" while we jam out the dead with acoustic guitar and makeshift disc-drums...peace.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504463 - 04/11/06 05:13 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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So what, you don't even work?
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: moeshroom]
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shrems said: funny you should post this here. i was among those you witnessed having carefree fun today in oakland. did you happen to cruise past flagstaff hill? you probably rolled within 100 yds of me.
i am lucky, no classes on tuesdays, chilled there all day tossing discs with my hippie friends, some chronic n some yingling, on this beautiful day.
we dont discriminate by age tho. there are def some old heads on flagstaff that i can relate to and are enjoying themselves way more than your typical pitt student, and i am 19. i can't imagine you feeling uncomfortable or "old" while we jam out the dead with acoustic guitar and makeshift disc-drums...peace.
No shit! Were you at the Cathedral at all today? There were lots of people playing frisbee over there. I was on Forbes, Mckee Place, and all of those other streets in the southern part of Oakland.
Actually, I don't smoke and I'm not a hippy, but I like hippies (I encountered a lot of them at the Oregon Country Fair over the summer). We should chill sometime.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: funkymonk]
#5504484 - 04/11/06 05:19 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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funkymonk said: So what, you don't even work?
Nope.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504487 - 04/11/06 05:20 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What do you do with your free time?
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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RandalFlagg said: To anybody who is 18-21 and they are reading this....these years are the best years of your life. Do not waste them.
I just did waste them. Opps.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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funkymonk said: So what, you don't even work?
Nope.
Then wtf are you complaining about? Being 20-something and not having to work?
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PinballWizard said: What do you do with your free time?
Drink booze, work out, ride bike, do stuff with this girl I'm kind of seeing, go to school, etc.. I have a pretty full schedule.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: funkymonk]
#5504521 - 04/11/06 05:28 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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funkymonk said: Then wtf are you complaining about? Being 20-something and not having to work?
Hm....good question.
I dunno. Seeing youth frolicking about reminds me of how I am getting old.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504524 - 04/11/06 05:28 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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This thread should be locked and deleted, you've got no grounds to complain.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: funkymonk]
#5504531 - 04/11/06 05:32 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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funkymonk said: This thread should be locked and deleted, you've got no grounds to complain.
I don't think I'm complaining. I think my thoughts are more of a wistful realization of the transitions of life. Would I trade my life now to be a young and poor college student having the time of my life? I think I might.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: funkymonk]
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yea dude what are you talking about? im a freshman in college and this has been like the worst year of my life. Before that my life was always sweet. My life isnt bad at all but HS was much better and its easily the worst part so far...
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504540 - 04/11/06 05:33 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think I should probably start enjoying my prime pretty soon.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504544 - 04/11/06 05:34 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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ok, ok as long as your not complaining.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: Redstorm]
#5504548 - 04/11/06 05:35 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Redstorm said: I think I should probably start enjoying my prime pretty soon.
That's the spirit. You live in a happening little college city. You should be having a blast right now.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504552 - 04/11/06 05:36 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'll trade.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504593 - 04/11/06 05:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I work a dumb full-time job...and go out at night. I am an avid bicyclist and I tour the city at least once a week on my day off. it's great. my favorite is riding on the lake next to all the girls sunbathing on the beach. the hood I live in is full of young people who are all pretty hip - lots of music and art and coffeeshops and venues and bookstores around here. great park right in the middle of everything thats always full of people when the weather's nice.
I am 26 and I dont really feel old. I'm enjoying the present.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504623 - 04/11/06 05:56 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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the cathedral's nice but there's too many people there concentrating on school work so i avoid it outside of class situations. in between classes i'd rather chill at the new park between the libraries.
hippie doesn't really mean anything nowadays. i meant we all like chillin' in nature as often as possible and many of us jam out, enjoy entheogens, are pacifists, etc... in my opinion we are a poorly represented minority here in oakland 
i don't think young people know how to enjoy pretty spring days better than older people. right?
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: moeshroom]
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shrems said: i don't think young people know how to enjoy pretty spring days better than older people. right?
hehe...good point. I thoroughly enjoyed my bike ride today.
Maybe I should stop stressing about my youth. I should embrace the fact that I am fast approaching 30. *gulp*
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Shit, my brother is well past 30, and he's still going strong. One of the people I know up in PA is 90 and can still out drink anyone I know. Just gotta keep on keepin on. Enjoy life no matter what stage you're at, and as someone else said "never look back".
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: Vvellum]
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bi0 said: the hood I live in is full of young people who are all pretty hip - lots of music and art and coffeeshops and venues and bookstores around here. great park right in the middle of everything thats always full of people when the weather's nice.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: daimyo]
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daimyo said: One of the people I know up in PA is 90 and can still out drink anyone I know.
Let me guess, he's one of those "super-hicks" from rural northwestern PA? I have met many of them. You want to see real men...they are it. They can out drink and out fight anybody in the world.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504685 - 04/11/06 06:15 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Oh, what a dream!!!;
To be able to turn back time without losing knowledge.
I'd SO go back to 17. SO fast and without hesitation. God, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I'd be rich beyond my wildest dreams. I'd never ever EVER have touched Cocaine for my enitre life, yet still knowing the feeling. I'd know how to treat a woman and how to approach one without fear of rejection. I'd live from the heart from that young age, all the way through, instead of learning my faults at such a late date.
Oh! What a dream!
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: TM]
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But us old farts know a thing or to, eh?
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504720 - 04/11/06 06:22 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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haha whatever
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504721 - 04/11/06 06:23 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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two* 
Dude, you're no old fart. You're only 27. Sure, with age comes wisdom, it's natural. Slower for some than others, though, obviously.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: Adden]
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I get the greatest joy coming back to my own place that I pay for every month and watching my tv that I pay for and drinking the beer and smoking the weed that my job earns me. Can't wait till im out of college
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Human memory tends to skew towards the positive. Prior phases in our lives always seem so wonderful, but really they had their ups and downs, just like the present does.
Plus, college is a fun period but imo 4-5 years is enough.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: PurpleKush]
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PurpleKush said: shit, my college sucks. where is this neverland?
haha yea seriously
anyways Randall, stop wallowing in the past, it's not real, all you got is right NOW so love Today, or you will end up 40 thinking about how you didnt enjoy your 20s too
and then 80 thinkin about how you didn't enjoy your whole life
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5504834 - 04/11/06 06:53 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I hated college up until my last year there, when it turned into the best time of my life.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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I had pretty much the same experience today. I had to sit through "orientation" today. Four fucking hours of it, on shit I already knew. Anyway, I had to walk across campus to talk to some financial aid people. It was in the mid 60's today and there was just poon everywhere. And all I could think was, man, this is the perfect time to come back to school. I'm 23, still not Randal-old, but I'm old enough to go to the bars near the campus, old enough to have some wisdom and just old enough to know to have a good time these next 4 years. While I'm gonna work my ass of to get a degree, I'm also gonna get involved with everything I can. Not like HS, where I didn't do shit. I was happy to be alive today and I haven't been like that in a while.
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Randal, you're only old as long as you keep telling yourself that. I know 30 year olds who have a more joix de vivre and energy about life that some 19 year olds. I know 19 year olds who are more stressed out that 30 or 40 or 50 year old. You have more control over this than you think. Age really is just a number. Don't ever let the child in you die. You miss doing the things you did when you were 19 or 20? Then do those things again, i guarantee you'll feel young again.
Today was a gorgeous day. and to EVERYONE reading this no matter how old you are. Grab life by the balls and demand a good time. Take advantage of every day of you life and everythign each age brings with it.
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Re: Oh to be 19 again... [Re: RandalFlagg]
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You are not old, either am I...I am 35, but I still feel young, have tons of energy. I feel like I have a more clearer head then I used to too, since I havent smoked pot in over 8 months now. I have my good days and bad days, I bet I will still have better days then I have ever experienced in my life in the future yet to come.
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Why thank you Ferris.
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