I miss being young.

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I really really really miss having the energy to go on a night out, talk to people, phone my mates the next day and have a gossip. Anyone else ?

The pain, the heaviness, the endless sore…

I think when you’re younger you feel like you’ll stay like that forever. You look the best you’ll ever look (generally) you have more time to meet friends as most aren’t married or have kids in the late teens early 20’s.

I wish I knew than what I know now. The old cliche but it’s true. If only you could put an older head on a younger body.

I’m more than happy with my life now in my early 40’s, i wouldn’t want to go back in time permanently but I’d love to go back in time for a couple of weeks, to that carefree exciting adventurous time.

I sometimes have an ache for being 16-30 again. Lots of different stages in those years but so carefree, so full of energy and possibilities.

But, I did have a bit of an epiphany recently, something jolted my rose coloured glasses and I also remembered how confusing and lonely those years were at times. I felt very grateful for my lovely husband, beautiful son and our steady life! (Still would like the energy of a 20 year old though! And fewer grey hairs).

In my sixties here. I would love my skin to stop wrinkling. The good bits about getting older are things like ………you really give less of a stuff about what people think of you, you’re less afraid to be yourself, the kids are all adults and you can worry less about them (I do still worry but accept that they’re adults now and responsible for themselves), the joy of small children with the added benefit of handing them back, retirement - time for hobbies and faffing about with no guilt. I could do without the odd aches and pains, but life is good and I couldn’t be bothered going through all of that growing up again!😄

I’m 48 and having a 2nd wind! My DC are teenagers so I can have nights out and lie in the next day and feel alright. I don’t feel much different now than in my 20’s, all is not lost OP!

I’m late 30s too and don’t relate to this feeling. I’ll be honest and I thought you were going to say you were in your 70s or something!
I don’t feel old and my life is much better and more stable than in my twenties!

I have a stable home life, work out, see friends, have a good career. I feel good too - much better than the sofa surfing, smoking, binge drinking chaos of my early twenties!
I don’t mean this post to be smug, I’ve had some really hard times of my life and I’m fortunate that at the moment it isn’t one of them. I think we all have different stages and very little is directly related to our age.

Yep. Im 33 with three kids. Iv never had bundles of energy even as a 20 year old but miss having the physical and mental energy I used too. I just feel a shell of myself now which I suppose comes with the responsibilities of being a mum, if I'm not working I'm cleaning or cooking or ironing. My social life and hobbies are non-existent as I just don't have the time. Iv felt past it for a long time. I also look constantly tired and haggard, massive eye bags and am underweight, so really have nothing going for me anymore. I emphasise with you OP xx

Nah. I lived well and made some great memories but I didn’t really know what I wanted or who I was. I like being older as I’m comfortable and content. I also like that it’s now acceptable to say you don’t want to go out because you can’t be bothered! In my 20s that would have been a cardinal sin.

You're not alone :( I miss having hobbies, having energy to chat to everyone and being overall optimistic, life full of fun, looking and feeling good! Yesterday at a beach town on holiday I saw two girls must have been in their 20s getting into wetsuits in the car park off for a surf. We were with our stroppy tired kids and I thought ahhh what it was to be young and have all that freedom!

Ah well. Got to be grateful for the things we do have, which are many! x

I was just thinking about this, I was looking in the mirror thinking how old I look and wishing I was young again with lots of energy, full of life. Sucks getting old.

I get what you're saying. I have pangs of wistfulness over it now and again. Falling in love for the first time (and the only true love I really ever had ). The plump fresh skin, the smell of boots strawberry 🍓 body spray 😄. But actually being young is riddled with insecurity, naive decisions, seeing other women as competition instead of your 'sisters', ups and downs and highs and lows and uncertainty.

There's a lot of angst to life as a proper grown up. But snuggling up with two fresh new little people and being their mum means so much more to me than those crazy highs and fags and cider nights. (Although I'd love to pop back and just live a few days of being 15/16 again - then come back to present !)

Jesus op. You ARE young. Try being 57 and still Running at 100 mph

Yeah I'm 53 and mine are grown. I'm regularly out socializing, seeing pub band, all daters at he beach. And plenty of backpacking. But my kids are grown up

You are still young! I’m in my 50s

I don’t wish I was young per se but I wish I had appreciated really how slim and gorgeous I was!

I have to say I don’t feel this at all and I’m 48! Now kids are getting older I have loads of energy.

True - sometimes I reminisce about having my own flat, disposable income and going out loads and having weekends away with friends. But I also remember getting bored by it too.

I sometimes feel envious of young colleagues, going out , falling in love and starting out. They have it all ahead of them.

but I’m really grateful for my wisdom. Last 15 years have often been trying ( shit now ex husband). While it was shit, I feel so proud of myself for getting through it. Feel much wiser.

Also in second career and love it!

I love being 50. I do still go out a lot though! 3 teenagers means I can go out when I want. Do have lots of friends who are younger and some older to hang out with.
It's different as I work 40 hours a week, have responsibilities of kids and dogs and so lots of weekly activities (tennis, singing, book club,) but also make it out to loads of gigs, theatre and occasionally clubbing. Just a lot more confident nowadays.

Oh no I'm much happier now I'm 30s with kids

20s was fine, but it was lots of drinking, going out, living in rubbish flats and not being as good at relationships or my work as I am now

I also had a chronic pain condition so health wasn't better - in fact I am healthier now in my 30s (and look better)

I miss it too. That feeling of anticipation before a night out, not knowing who you might meet or where you might end up. Everything feeling brand new and exciting, a feeling that anything was possible, so much time ahead and so many plans, dreams and possibilities. Listening to a song and feeling like it was written for you. Looking young and not aching. Staying up half the night and getting hammered but still being able to turn up for work the next day looking alright. On the flipside there was less money and getting messed around by stupid men. But even that seems like fun now through my rose tented varifocals 🙂

I'm mostly happy with being older but I want to be able to dance like no one's watching sometimes. I told my husband recently I miss going to raves and no one judging me because they were all off their heads too. Now we all have proper jobs and children who will judge us. Parties these days are so dull in comparison I might as well be the designated driver

In my 50s and I do and I don't miss being young. Yes, the excitement and the novelty was wonderful, making plans for how your life was going to go, the weekends spent dancing and getting drunk and being daft as a brush. But I have the lovely relationship I was looking for and my kids, the beautiful home I wanted when I lived in shared digs, money in my pocket and a lot more confidence. I also like myself a lot more, even though my looks are going. I finally started going to the gym and am probably stronger and fitter than I was in my 20s when I was living on takeaways, booze, coffee and very little sleep! I look back on that time very fondly and get lost in memories sometimes but I don't miss it. I have a lovely life now that I was always working toward. But I am also VERY glad I had that time. I think your 20s are special - starting out in the world of work, really discovering who you are without being tied down by responsibilities. You do a lot of growing up between 18 and 25 and I was free to explore everything I wanted. I loved being a bit of a nomad.

I'm 66.

Earlier I was looking at my dining room and thought it needs repainting. Then I considered the logistics of clearing and moving furniture and the prospect of getting up a stepladder for the cutting in......(high ceilings).......and I realised I may not be able for it. My thigh muscles don't have the strength and balance is going to shit.

I've been decorating (paper hanging included) since I was about 13.

This is a huge shock to me.

I'm going to have to pay a decorator (will try and engage a woman, because why not?)

Honestly, ageing Fucking Sucks

Yes, I miss being 23-26 and the euphoric feeling I had with my first ‘love’ to this day I think about it/him frequently. Thinking about the times we had literally makes me hot under the collar

Am 44. Was looking at all the 20 and 30 somethings at the school gates today and wishing I had their enthusiasm back, especially in how full of life they are with their kids. Possibly not an age thing, the last year has just beaten me down