ahh... the best days of your life.....

[londonsmog]

I just met my next door neighbour outside as I was opening my door... I've only seen her about 2 times since me moved in 5 months ago.... I always find her really interesting... she's this rebel old lady who drinks loads... She started talking about how little she see's of all of us, and 'what do we do' etc.. anyway I told her we're all at uni doing different things... then we talked about art schools etc.. and as the conversation was ending... she started walking away, still talking (I do this.. so I didn't think it was weird)... her last words... she shouted, as she was, by now, quite a distance away from where she had originally been... anyway.. she shouted "these are the best day's of your life... at least they were for me".... It scared me a bit... because I think I'm still waiting for the best days of my life... and I can safely say these aren't them.... although I think I can see them in the near distance....

[libertine]

Hi Londonsmog. I wouldn't worry about it. The best days will find you. I think my best days were probably when I was 25 - 30. They were the best days of my youth!

[Knox]

just because they were the best days of her life, doesnt mean they should be the best days of yours, you have the best days of your life when your good & ready dammit..!!! (sorry got a lil' carried away there near the end) haha

[Bodhi]

Yeah, I've heard the whole thing about college being the best days of your life. They weren't for me though and it made me feel depressed when people would say that, like I had missed out. But now I'm thinking, just because I missed out on college being the best days of my life, doesn't mean another time in my life can't be. So I'm hoping my mid to late 20'd will be the best days of me life.

[Sweet Pea]

this hasn't been true for me at all...things get better for me as i get older. increasing self-awareness and self-understanding makes things better. i really didn't have any understanding of who or what i was when i was young. i just kept getting myself involved in situations and with people who weren't right for me. so i'm looking forward to what's ahead for me.

[Paulinus]

I think the quote in my sig says it all

[nameless]

i hear that at a lot as well, i cant help but think life seems to be just passing me by!

[annaa]

It's always annoyed me when people have said to me that being a young adult is the best time of your life. It's hell!
I think when people say that they mean you've got energy and, allegedly, less worries.

[theinfiniteabyss84]

I think the best days of my life was senior year in high school, I had more than 1 friend, my friends and I would go out, people knew me, I was emerging out of my shell, I actually had friends that were guys. The friends I had were a lot like me, we didnt follow the crowd, we did our own thing...pretty much we were 30 year olds in the body of an 18 year old. Then I graduated and everything went downhill from there.

~i.a.

[skyhint]

theinfiniteabyss84 said:

I think the best days of my life was senior year in high school, I had more than 1 friend, my friends and I would go out, people knew me, I was emerging out of my shell, I actually had friends that were guys. The friends I had were a lot like me, we didnt follow the crowd, we did our own thing...pretty much we were 30 year olds in the body of an 18 year old. Then I graduated and everything went downhill from there.

~i.a.

Yeah a lot falls apart after grad. It takes time, but things change and build up to be as good as they used to be.

[Sweet Pea]

i guess it's a good thing high school sucked for me, i had no where to go but up. i do not wax nostalgic about it whatsoever. never thought of that as a good thing until now.

[iroseiroared3]

I like that some of you are talking about mid-late 20s being the best time of your lives. I hope that's true for me because that's where I'm at right now.

Anyway londonsmog, I agree that I wouldn't worry about what she said.. even though maybe you feel like you should and that you have a lot in common with her and all. But it's different for everyone, and a lot of older people say this. So don't worry, I agree that you'll get it when it's your time. She sounds like a pretty cool old lady anyway, hehe.

[hopeful]

School or uni definitely weren't the best years of my life. But I don't think I expected them to be. Somehow I always imagined if the "best days of my life" existed, they'd be when I was older.

[Hermit]

I think the best days of my life were when i was very young.. somewhere between 5 and 10 years old.

I have to go that far back to remember a time when i didn't feel so self-conscious. I was a happy kid.

[urbanspaceman]

hermit1 said:

I think the best days of my life were when i was very young.. somewhere between 5 and 10 years old.

I have to go that far back to remember a time when i didn't feel so self-conscious. I was a happy kid.

I'd have to agree, although reluctantly. I distinctly remember hating primary school, where I think my social anxiety started to take root.

However, away from school I think I was a pretty happy kid, before I started really becoming aware of the effect people and their moods could have on me. When I started worrying about my mum (for example) and how my actions would affect those around me, just tip-toing around everyone really, anxiety became pretty much an ever-present bed-fellow.

This must be around the age of 10 or 11? I think that's where I learned (mistakenly or not) that silence was often the best way to avoid any conflict or unwanted attention, which worked some of the time, but sadly not at school.