Something you've learned in the last five years?

[HEyHEY]

Anything, I gotta say, I saw a thread, in it people said they would love to be 25 forever. I am 25 now, at first I didn't get it. Now I do, this is a great age, all your friends and stuff start getting their careers and you get a glimpse of how things turn out. Plus, you realize who your good friends are, and you start to, for the first time, not worry about the future.

You?

[toddzilla]

1. i've learned that money means very little to me.

It's freed me up from worrying about a "career" and just taking things as they go. Why spend all your time working and setting a goal to buy more useless shit that you dont' need.


it's pretty odd really.

[HEyHEY]

6. Well put

My friends however aren't in careers that make money - for now..
I learned that I wsn't built to make money five or six months ago, I was at a job making potentially $70,000 year - not bad for a 24 year old. I was miserable and left, now I make about $26,000 and am happy as a clam.

I think it's an experience we all need to go through to find out who we are.

[jpgray]

2. Piano

It's at the same time easier and harder than guitar.

[HEyHEY]

7. I'd love to learn it

[WilliamPitt]

3. All women are insane

to varying degrees.

On edit: I will brook no argument on this. I've been through too much shit (i.e. empirical evidence-gathering) in the last year to believe otherwise. Go call someone else a misogynist. I love women, worship them. This means I worship insane people. So it goes.

[jpgray]

4. Good thing we men are so sane

Then again I just posted in NSMA's thread something about squeezing mammae... maybe that's the root of male insanity.

[HEyHEY]

9. hey man, I had two sister - their teen years taught me that

quite well :-)

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

15. Women are insane up to a certain age

after which men stop driving us crazy.

[leanings]

16. Damn. My thoughts exactly.

Insane, perhaps, but not to be trusted without a doubt. Getting banged up in a relationship was far and away the most important learning experience of my last five years. I'm still coming to terms with the lesson.

[Dogmudgeon]

20. And here I thought it was just me

I've got the equivalent of gaydar, but for psychotic women.

Say what you want, but they are never unexciting. Well, not unless they're taking their meds.

--bkl

[ET Awful]

21. You won't get any argument from me Will

I agree with you 100% :)

[VelmaD]

23. Oh, and men are any better?

I'm not gonna argue about whether women are insane...we are. But you guys aren't any less loony. And I say that as someone who adores men. Hell, almost all of my friends are men. But you're a bunch of loons - lovable loons, but loons nonetheless.

We should combine our "empirical evidence" and get it published...Nature, Scietific American, Penthouse Forum...take your pick. ;)

[JanMichael]

34. Oh boo f'ing hoo! Buck up camper.

The trick is to always, yes always, be MORE insane that they could ever imagine.

Works like a charm


PS~ Hope my darling, lovely, sweet, foregiving, beautiful, wife knows that I'm just being facetious:-)

[Blayde Starrfyre]

5. language

I learned how to speak Danish.

And I learned from Ice Cube that "A Bitch iz a Bitch."

[HEyHEY]

8. Danish - very cool

[Blayde Starrfyre]

10. Ja, det er det

;)

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

11. Twice your age and I have learned

Nothing lasts forever.

Not meant to throw cold water on being 25 - great age to be - but when I saw the title of your thread that is the first thing that lept to mind.

Nothing lasts forever.

[Blayde Starrfyre]

12. Really?

Homer?

Shakespeare?

Ellington?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

14. Ray Davies

[musiclawyer]

26. You learned of Ray Davies?

When? Good for you. Ray is not just a treasure of the British Empire, he is a WORLD treasure, and arguably the most gifted and versatile pop-rock songwriter EVER to come out of the UK. (And don't even try to argue the point unless you've heard every single one of his 400 some odd songs many times over.) When Ray dies I will sob. Did you know that his brother Dave lives in LA!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

31. No, I was referring to a song he wrote

Nothing Lasts Forever. From Preservation Act 1 or 2, I can't remember which.

I have heard almost all his songs many times over, and on many versions including concert tapes where he's slurring drunk and spatting with Dave.

I got to meet him in the coffee shop of a Howard Johnson's after a show one night. A very treasured memory.

:bounce:God Save the Kinks!:bounce:

[Donkeyboy75]

13. The "Peter Principle"

is the primary law of the universe.

[LosinIt]

17. That there is NO ONE who is perfect for you

Learned this in the last five days. The other day in one of my 45 minute commutes I was thinking of all of the men that I have ever known, not just dated. I don't think that any of them would be my perfect mate. Oh sure, I could take 2/3 of Man A, mix with 1/6 of Man B and 1/6 of Man C and we would be pretty close, but nowhere near achieving perfection. It just makes me appreciate my husband more. He tries, I guess that is all that I could ever ask for.

[sweetheart]

18. If driving with sheep on the road

aim for the ass of a moving sheep as it will not back up. Do not
try the same thing with deer. Slow down to a near stop, as they
are unpredictable.

[ConcernedCanuk]

19. 'puters, inside and out - 5 years ago I only had a 286

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and NEVER even considered the net -

Now I can build a computer from scratch,

(1st one cost less than 12 bucks! - ya I was por at the time)

make up web pages,

and I'm one heck of a "googler"



Did I mention HTML?

:silly:

[VelmaD]

22. Don't settle

Five years ago I was still with the man I "settled" for when I couldn't have what I really wanted. I realized after it was over that I turned the best parts of me off for a decade because they made him uncomfortable. I never realized how depressed I was until it was over adn I started really feeling things deeply again.

Never settle for less than you want...less than you deserve...you might convince yourself you're happy for a little while but eventually it all falls apart and you're right back where you started anyway...might as well take the time to find the right person even if it means being alone for a while.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. PHP (nt)

[Nikia]

25. Lot's of stuff

I've gotten so wise. I still worry about the future though. One of the themes that I've learned about is that it is alright to be me and no one will convince me otherwise.

[Bertha Venation]

27. that I have the power to hurt people by making choices that are right for

me. It broke my heart to leave my family to marry Mrs. V. and move to Maryland, but it was right for me. It's still right for me, of course, and it always will be. My home is where she is. My sisters know this well, and gave me their blessing, and know I am happy. But my moving away broke their hearts, too. Jesus god, I miss them so much.

[camero]

28. Watch what you wish for

Cause you might get it. I learned that in the last 5 years.

[lucidmadman]

29. That 'love' is an umbrella term...

...what we call love breaks down into 1)companionship 2)affection and 3)ultra hot sex. Not necessarily in any order.

[MrScorpio]

30. That the US can put a man in the White House

That's more crooked than Nixon, Reagan and Bush I put together.

Surprise, surprise, surprise

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

32. That our lives in this country, all we have, all we dream

all we argue about is an illusion that can go away very, very fast.

[havocmom]

33. You really can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.

And, no, I won't tell you how I found this out.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

35. I learned that my girl knows me better than I thought anyone could

It surprises me daily.

Much love and respect for my Partner!!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. That there's more to life than my own selfish needs.

Volunteering for Dean made me aware of so much more than I'd ever bothered to check into before.

I have much more desire to help others now rather than worrying about my own problems and personal crap.