Youth or money?

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03 Nov 2021, 1:05 am

i Already Have Enough Money
To Last the Rest of my Life;

Yes, It's Called Retirement

And Considering i've Never

Been Stronger, Smarter,

More Loved, Creative

And Happier in my Life

Than Now At this Present Moment

And it Keeps Going that Way Every Day Greater

Now There is No Way i Will Go To Any Age Yet Now...

And Surely Not For an Extra Million Dollars Now as it

Would Only

Be An Extra

Annoyance

to Deal With;

Let Someone

Have it That Wants it More than me...

Of Course i Found the Science Assessed

No Longer Secret of the Fountain of Youth;

Continuous Autotelic Meditative Flow in Free Dance And
Song From Wake To Sleep That Yes Science Shows Regenerates

Our Body From Head to toe; And Sure i Have Irrefutable Proof

Of Everything i am Saying Here; And So What if No One Believes

You Can't Be Stronger, More Loved, Smarter, More Creative, and Happier

At 61 than Any Other Age; If You Don't Do it that's Only Your Loss, Not Mine...

Anyway, Hope You Find Lasting Heaven on Earth Within, Inside, Outside, Above, So Below

And All Around

too With SMiLes...

Greatest Part Is it
is No Myth in a Book

And Some Place Over
THere After Death

Or Only When

One is

Young

by the NuMBeRS...

Have a Nice Day, Typically

Those Who Only Wish For Money

And Youth Don't Find it Now, if they Don't actually Do 'Heaven' (Love) Now...

Seen Way too Many Case Studies Like that Including me before 53 Years-Old

In the

'Other

Places' too...
Sure, Purgatory
And HeLL ON EartH

And A MiLLioN Plus Other

Metaphors For the Reality of Life Now...

And Technically, It's True, i Couldn't Earn

Nearly the Lifelong Interest off A Million Dollars

For Subsistence that Retirement Brings; 'These Days'

Younger Folks Are So Short-Sighted That Most of the Young
Folks Entering the Work-Force Before i Retired Turned it Down...

It Wasn't Easy Attaining it; In Fact, the Stress of it Almost Killed me;

Yet i'm

FLYiN' Free Now...

And Plus, i Have Additional

Money i Saved in the Bank

Without Even Any Retirement for A Very
Rainy Day That Did Come that Would Have Lasted Decades too...

How Did i Do it; Keep the Same Wife, Same Car, Same Home; And Don't

Waste Money; Folks Waste Amazing Amounts of Money on Practically

(No Living Children;
Big Difference too)

Nothing of Value...

Yet You See i Only

See Love As Value;

That's What i AM Raised
On the Most That's What
i EvenTuaLLy BeCaME...NoW

Amen.

THere Are

Some Prayers With Legs...

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03 Nov 2021, 3:38 am

I would choose 30 even without the million

18 was a dark time for me, and even with all the knowledge I have now, going through all that again wouldn't be easy.

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03 Nov 2021, 7:43 am

I would choose neither choice. I hated my youth and was busy with graduate school at 30, being bullied by my research advisor. Money is not enough to get me to go back.

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03 Nov 2021, 8:42 am

Either option would be good.

30 isn't that old and the money would be very welcome.

On the other hand, 18 and broke would be no worse than it was the first time around and I'd be young again.

It's a good deal either way.

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05 Nov 2021, 7:59 pm

magz wrote:

I would choose 30 even without the million

So would I!
The other side of 30 is when I really learned to be happy in my skin and see life for what it is.

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23 Dec 2021, 4:14 pm

Well, I was practically broke when I was 18 - I didn't get a job till I was 19. I got unemployment benefit but it wasn't much and even in those days they were doing all they could to make my life a misery and snatch it back.

At 30 with a million I could probably have quit my job and been rather happier. I suppose that kind of money in those days could have set me up economically for life, and without the job to stress me out and take up my time, I might have been relaxed enough to make some better life decisions. As I'm 69 now, the extra 39 years of life would be nice too.

But the OP didn't specify whether we'd get to keep the knowledge we've acquired in the meantime. Knowing what I know now would make a big difference. A lot depends on how old the individual is now - obviously to a 15-year-old there'd be no experience to keep. Anyway, I'll take 30 and the million, regardless of the experience thing.

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26 Dec 2021, 10:49 pm

Neither.

When I was 18, I was trying too hard to get used to the new world around me called college.

I'm now 31 and making a decent wage, so no need for one million.

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