How Old Do You Want to Be?

[Texas Star]

Most on this board have a few years on them. With the wisdom gained, how old would you want to be if some pill, etc. could freeze you in a certain age?

I think I'd be 36. Old enough to run for President and old enough to be taken seriously by older people. Young enough to know most things I'd need to and young enough to hunt a younger wife.

The wife would be frozen at about 30. Mature enough for most things and not as shallow and full of herself as most younger girls are. But still with her good looks.

What about you? How old would you be, if you had that choice? Keep in mind you gotta be at least 21 to buy guns and some other needs like buying alcoholic drinks.

 

[builder1]

I would love to be 35 and know what I know know , then on the hand . I hate the way our country is going with all this weird things that were never considered acceptable when I was younger I am getting ready to turn 71 and I have seen a good many changes in our world and not all for the good of mankind !


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[GKC]

By freeze you at a certain age, do you mean you could go back in time to a previous age, and then remain there without aging any further? You know, I don't think I'd like that...anyone you knew or met at that age would get older and eventually pass out of your life, while you would remain. That would seem to be awfully lonely to me.

What I would like better would be to be able to go back to a prior age, yet knowing all that I know now, and relive my life. I'd avoid some mistakes, make some good investments, and live like I know now I should have lived. Of course, I'd still want to meet certain people, like my wife, and avoid some other people that I unfortunately met along the way to here.

Now, if I could do that, I think I'd go back to about 12...and be an excellent student in school. Yeah, I'd have to wait a while to buy guns, but that would eventually come. In the meantime, I could be positioning myself to be able to afford any gun I wanted.

On the other hand, it may not be so good...have you seen the movie "The Butterfly Effect"? Well meaning changes could end up having disastrous consequences. It's a fun mental game to play, but about all we can do is learn from the past, and apply those lessons to the present in order to make a better future.

 

[Texas Star]

I guess other people could also set their ages, so they wouldn't age out of your life.

That way, you'd be old enough to retire, but physically remain 36 (or whatever age you select.)

That way, Hugh Hefner at 91 would have been able to do more with his wife than talk, watch movies, and enjoy that odd dog they both loved. To her credit, Crystal looked after him and saw that he was as comfortable as he could be, with back pain and other ailments. It must be wonderful to have a wife her age (31) when you're 91, even if she's mainly a caretaker. At least , she'd be lovely to look at across the breakfast table...

I doubt if many would choose to age a lot. When in his 70's, gun writer Elmer Keith told me, "Getting old is H---. " He was right. I miss youth and how I was when younger. I felt best about myself when I was in my mid 30's.

 

[rwsmith]

Not much to choose from........

...but I would like to be an age where i wasn't plagued by health problems but I'm coming up dry

 

[chief38]

If you are talking about being "frozen" at a certain age then somewhere just under 50 sounds about right to me. Old enough to have life experience, old enough to be "respectable", but young enough to still enjoy yourself.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I have come to view life as a Time Traveler! I can only go up the time ladder and only at the rate of One Day per day. Going back is THE one thing that would collapse the future! If anyone could go back and relive some portion of their life over: There would only be Adam & Eve in the garden before the forbidden fruit incident! None of us or any of this would exist!

Ivan

 

[Breakaway500]

Put me in for 12. BB guns..mini bikes and not a care in the world, but shooting and riding.

 

[brigham33]

At 70, even with a few health issues, very happy to be where I am.

 

[loknload]

Why the same age Jack Benny always was....39
Still in my 30's and didn't hit 40 yet.

 

[wingriderz]

...but I would like to be an age where i wasn't plagued by health problems but I'm coming up dry

Me too lol

 

[perryhd]

I can't remember the exact age but it would be my late 20s the day before my wife had an accident that has cause health problems ever science.

 

[snuffy51]

I'm 66 now, still doing pretty well. Been through a lot, good and a few bad. Kind of a challenge at times to keep my interest up in some things. The world has certainly changed in the years I been here. I don't think it would be safe to change anything or to stay in one place in time, might even get boring. What ever happens, the one thing you can count on is somebody ain't going to like it and will make a lot more noise than the people who do. Always think before you act and watch your back.

 

[sheepdawg]

Nothing wrong with being in your 60s other than a bum knee. At 30 you'd never look at a 55 year old woman. At 63 you can and still look at the 30 year old. Opens up a lot more scenery to you.

I guess I'm being sexist but looking at an attractive lady is still a favorite hobby.

Is that still legal?

 

[JamesArthur60]

My first thought is 12. You're to old to be a whining little kid, and not yet into the confusing teen years. Plus, at 12 you still play baseball in the rough, rocky homemade field you and your buddies built. Play touch football in the street. Hike in the woods, make a bow and arrow from small tree limbs, play Army, and stay out until the street lights come on. Ride your bicycle everywhere carrying your favorite Red Ryder BB gun. At age 12 you check out your friends older teenage sister, but know enough to stay far away from trouble. The again, with today's troubled world maybe 12 would not be a good age. But, if it were the late 50's or early 60's, 12 would be my choice. You can probably tell when I was that age. Where did those happy times go?

 

[Iggy]

I've had a good life. Done some good things, and nothing I regret, but I wouldn't want to go back and do them again. I reckon I'll just keep peddling and see what the Lord has planned for me today.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

I think I'll just stay where I'm at.......Old enough to know better, but too young to resist.


WuzzFuzz

 

[Salty RI]

I would like to be 30 yrs younger and still not have to work.

 

[dben002]

20...in second year of college...Boston U. Full for vim and vigor..missing classes due to "other-" things happening more important.

 

[arjay]

35-I'd mortgage the house to the max and buy Apple lol