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Because you’re already here. What else is there to do….
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My twenties were awesome.
My thirties rocked.
My forties were blissfully happy.
Things started to go downhill physically in my fifties when I went from a perfectly healthy woman who had never been in the hospital (and still had all her original parts, including tonsils, appendix and wisdom teeth) to a menopausal shell of my former self, drenched in hot flash sweat with achy joints, a bum knee, 35 extra pounds and bunions.
So yeah.
Any age before 50 is alright with me.
How about you?
What age do you want to stay…
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River's world..... 
Ironically my answer is the same as the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy — 42. That was the year of my first foray into weightlifting. I was finding my footing as a mom and things were calm before the storm.
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I liked 42….
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40 – It was a very good age – I could happily be 40 forever…
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I’m with you.
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Physically? 38. After that, my knees started giving me trouble. Mentally? I wouldn’t trade a single year of hard-won wisdom.
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You make a valid point.
This brain, 38 year old body.
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26… thin and the happiest I’ve ever been. I describe it as, “dreams that I didn’t even know I had came true.”
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I miss thin….
😫
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I’ve only been thin twice – a year or two of high school and 26-29.
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I stayed thin until I hit 40 when I gained 10 lbs. After 50? Whew.. I don’t even own a scale anymore.
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Eighteen months. I can pee and poo in my pants and someone else cleans it up. I get spoon fed, can burp it up and someone else cleans it up. I am too young to understand anxiety. Someone does my cooking, laundry, and gives me a bath. I do not have to go to school, sleep on my own schedule, I do not have to discuss politics, or talk at all. I have no boss, watch, cellphone, or Facebook page. And I am forever thin and cute.
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A very well thought out response.
If I remembered 18 months, I might agree.
😉
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Any age that is pre-death
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45, this way the time I was sure of myself, when I was able to lose weight without struggling. I was a badass at 45.
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I bet you’re still a badass, no matter the weight.
😉
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17 … when you think you know everything– and yet still have mostly zero responsibilities. 🙂
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I’m not sure I’d want to be a teenager again. Once was hard enough…
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18. I didn’t start seriously dating until I was 19 so knowing what I do now, I could make better choices with a do over.
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Hum…that’s hard. So much shit happened to me emotionally through the decades, but I’ll go with 25. That was a relatively decent year all around.
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I’m happy in my senior years, retired in good health— gym three times a week — busy with friends, fellowship and family, happily able to pursue my writing which gives me great pleasure; wouldn’t want to be younger coz that would mean full time working, little free time —
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I wish my husband shared your enjoyment of retired life. He’s still struggling with it…
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once he gets a hobby and takes up regular exercise and spends some time with his mates, if only one night a week, he’ll be right —
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Ooh, that’s tough. I was fitter and thinner at 30, but I lived in an apartment, was transitioning between careers and back in school, and was less financially secure. I’m also just generally more secure and sure of myself in my 50s. Wish I could combine the best part of every decade into one new, permanent age.
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Well let’s see, became a mom at 36, a step grandma 6 mths later and had my first joint replacement at 42, after being bone to bone for over 2 yrs and it getting stuck out of socket with the birth of my second kid. I’ll take 30 for $1,000, Alex
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30 sounds good to me.
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