Like anyone would want to be 18, with no money, no authority, no certainty, no belongings except anxiety, and no knowledge how life would turn out.
If your 18 was better than this, then never mind.
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The body was better. Knees, hips, back. The resilience to pull all-nighters. Also during the Reagan years, post-glasnost, it was not uncertainties but opportunities, and challenges, and excitement for the future.
Which remain, but one is less tough and mentally-flexible to handle them.
Nonetheless, one can make the best of what one has for this is the day God has made for us, so be glad in it.
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Didn’t you say that your family was doing well in Ukraine? Why the anxiety and lack of certainty then?
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I was making a lot of money by 19, that’s true. And I had my own family, having married early. Owned my own large condo.
But I’d grown up in an extremely chaotic, abusive environment. People who know the dysfunction I grew up with cannot believe I’m alive, let alone fully functional.
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I’m in better health now than I was at 18. That was a pretty crap year, actually.
I’m amazed that everyone treats getting older as though it’s a long downhill slope from about age 28 on. My experience has been completely opposite: with the exception of one earth-shatteringly terrible year (sometimes stuff happens and you just have to get through it), every year since 17 has been relentlessly better than the year before it. My health is better, I’ve become more competent and emotionally stable, and my relationships are all better because I’ve learned how to be a better friend.
I don’t even get nostalgic about 37. This year is better.
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