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    W Youth

    7 days old, 10 years old, 17, 25....
    At the end i understood that even if someone prefer being a child, someone else an adolescent, someone else a bit older....no one wants to become old U.U

    Dear friends...sometimes i see my sister that is growing up so quickly more and more day by day..and i am so afraid of time. It never waits...goes on..
    Do u agree with me?


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    Greetings from Italy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Desolation View Post
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    You're just old enough to understand things a little bit, but you don't have to do anything but run around and play with toys until you pass out on the floor and your mom carries you into bed.

    Once you get too old for it to be socially acceptable to play with toys, it's all downhill.
    Yeah but at that age your parents are trying to discipline you and you have to be in bed at eight.

    Also your never to old to play!!! I have star wars toys and I play with my son all the time, not with my SW toys but his toys.

    No one should forget how to play, it's fun oh and jumping in puddles is so much fun
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    Quote Originally Posted by Helga View Post
    Yeah but at that age your parents are trying to discipline you and you have to be in bed at eight.

    Also your never to old to play!!! I have star wars toys and I play with my son all the time, not with my SW toys but his toys.

    No one should forget how to play, it's fun oh and jumping in puddles is so much fun

    Yeah, but you don't know there is a life out of there. So you are happy of what u have.
    ahaha i d like so much to see u playing with toys
    When u grow old...toys are not so funny anymore..maybe because adults loose imagination, like Exupery in "the small prince" says.

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    I've been playing alot since Grandadhood struck. Yesterday I was the Big Bad Wolf, and had to chase them round the room until they jumped onto the sofa, which was "Den" and therefore inviolable. I was knackered.

    Although I know these are my most precious years, I would still like to be 25 again.
    ay up

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    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    I've been playing alot since Grandadhood struck. Yesterday I was the Big Bad Wolf, and had to chase them round the room until they jumped onto the sofa, which was "Den" and therefore inviolable. I was knackered.

    Although I know these are my most precious years, I would still like to be 25 again.
    Hi prendrelemick (or takethemick haha) what do you mean by Grandadhood struck and Den?
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
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    The concept of "Den" in children's games has been passed down for generations round here. It is a safe haven where you can't be caught by the Wolf or the person who is "It." You shout "Den" as you leap into it, and the chaser can't get you.

    Becoming a Grandad, Your life is completely altered and shaken up.
    ay up

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    I think 40's are the best years. The hard yards are done. One has put their naivety behind them too and has the benefit of hindsight and hopefully a little wisdom for their trouble.
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delta40 View Post
    I think 40's are the best years. The hard yards are done. One has put their naivety behind them too and has the benefit of hindsight and hopefully a little wisdom for their trouble.
    This is beyond doubt the most sensible post on this thread.
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    I haven't experienced the 40s yet, but I have to admit I am looking forward to them. I like the thirties, since you experience so much domestic bliss- or more than you do without a kid. I think that the forties are a time when life can be very stable and you are done with all the BS and struggle of being young and trying to figure it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buh4Bee View Post
    I think that the forties are a time when life can be very stable and you are done with all the BS and struggle of being young and trying to figure it out.
    Yep that's it in a nutshell and if you haven't got it figured out by the age of forty, it's unlikely that you ever will and therefore remain a case of retarded development.
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emil Miller View Post
    Yep that's it in a nutshell and if you haven't got it figured out by the age of forty, it's unlikely that you ever will and therefore remain a case of retarded development.
    Of course it's also an age where you can go a little crazy....
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    I've only got two decades, that's not much to go on. Ask me again when I'm 80. I guess the people I'm most attracted to have always been in their mid to late thirties, maybe I'll like that age.
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    I haven't reached my favourite age yet. I'm 29 now so I'm thinking it might be somewhere in the mid thirties

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delta40 View Post
    I think 40's are the best years. The hard yards are done. One has put their naivety behind them too and has the benefit of hindsight and hopefully a little wisdom for their trouble.
    Ay I think naivety is the word I was looking for I like to think I can hold on to that for a bit longer. Nothing wrong with being naive it is part of the innoncence within us all and it can be a nice thing if one is quikc witted clever as well as naive.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    The concept of "Den" in children's games has been passed down for generations round here. It is a safe haven where you can't be caught by the Wolf or the person who is "It." You shout "Den" as you leap into it, and the chaser can't get you.

    Becoming a Grandad, Your life is completely altered and shaken up.
    Thank you for explaining prendrelemick.
    Is that what your avatar portrays a bit of both?
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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