Posted by IsoM on January 4, 2002, at 13:59:46
In reply to Re: id like to be little again and again » shellir, posted by Katey on January 4, 2002, at 11:31:38
Katie, my youngest is 19, almost 20 & he sounds like you. My oldest is 26 & both have had bad bouts with depression. Both have been hospitalised fr being suicidal too.
I think any one who's had real depression problems when young gains a maturity that easy-going kids don't have. It's from experiencing what it's like that gives them insight.
My 19 yr old, Tyrel, says that young people are way too much in a hurry to grow up & grown up life is full of heavy responsibilities & hardships - not a freedom from following orders like many think.
One time, jokingly, he said he can't wait till he grows old & decrepit. Then he can wear tacky jogging suits, use a cane, & wave it at young kids & shout "you young'ns git off my lawn before I whump ya a good one!" He was only kidding of course, he knows old age isn't great either. But it was a comment on trying to find enjoyment at whatever stage of life we're at without always wishing we were another age.
You'd both probably get along very well.
> seventeen in feb, but yes. is that an odd way to think?
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> > > i'm planning on having atleast three more childhoods. one when i have kids, one when i have an empty nest, and the next one when i turn seventy. and that one will be complete with the swing set i never had :-)
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> > Katie, you totally blow my mind. Are you really sure you're only 16?
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> > Shelli
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