I saw that line in a post on another thread --

Just that: "I wish I was younger."

Got to thinking about it.

My last girlfriend (Nov 07 - Aug 08) was 23.

The one before her was 19, the one before that 33.

I never saw age as a barrier, but now I'm really starting to wonder....

Because, when I was younger, I never had a problem meeting new people. I had two friends (they were like sisters to me) who had friends of theirs lined up (metaphorically) waiting to meet me.

It was so easy back then....

....when I was younger.

You get older, everybody is married and/or divorced, has kids, has "baggage" (we all have baggage, but it seems the people I know have collected massive concrete blocks in theirs, more and more each year)....

No access to the people I'd want to meet....

There are days when I can almost literally feel the "right" person drifting off beyond the horizon....

....all because of some stupid, irrelevant numbers....

Did you ever email "glasses" girl?

I don't see people drifting by because I never look up.

I don't necessarily wish for myself to be younger, but often times, I wish life itself was more like the way it was when I was younger. Not so hectic, not so paranoid, not so "Big Brother".

I hope it get easier to meet people when as I get older! I'm so shy.

i wish i was old

I like em young

I'm content being emotionally immature, it's enough for me.

Lex, It was a joke

I was only kidding

i like my age, i think it would be way to hard to be young again, i know what i want and i go after it, when i was younger, i couldnt make up my mind!!!

I actually am thankful for the age I am. I feel through time I got a whole lot wiser, kinder, nicer to myself and hopefully to others. I know dating when I was younger and raising kids was a royal pain in the butt. Now since I am closer to 50 than 40 I have found peace in myself, I know what I want and I am quite content if it doesn't happen in this life that is okay.

Dating in my age group is a lot less stressful than any other in my life, If we dont' click oh well, I dont' worry about if he likes they way I look or do I have the right clothing on. I tend now to take life as it is and not try to rose color it anymore way more fun this was I think.

I do have to agree with K though I do miss the simplicity of life growing up. I believe I had the ideal childhood since I had freedoms of just being a kid and a young adult where there was no fear. I didn't learn the meaning of that word till in my 30's really.

Good question to ponder though.

Yeah, I didn't really read the whole thing and I may have missed the context....

BUT it got me thinking anyway....

if numbers are just numbers and age is no barrier, how can being younger change anything at all?

it's your mindset, no?

i outgrew my shyness when i got older, so you might too.

on age - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgbhbkSnbc

As nice as it would be in some ways to go back to the earlier years I don't want to have to go through the bad again so thanks but no thanks. I will just deal with the fact that I now how choices I did not have then and the choices I don't really are not that important to the general scheme of things.

I wish i was William Pitt the Younger, but in todays times.

Age is is not necessarily a bad thing. In many ways it is a lot like a good wine....I gets better and becomes much more pronounceda with time....And yes baggage is a issue....But the question is what have done to secure the baggage....last thing you would to have happen is not have it secured and have it fall off your truck of life and hit someelse...

I've often wondered about that term "the younger;" does it mean there were 2 of them, one old and one young? Or does it mean something else?

I can't type and you quoted too soon

In this case it was to distinguish himself from his father, who was William Pitt the Elder.