What do you miss from your youth?

I hear that!

But it is so relative.

In my youth, my older woman was 42. Now that is the age of my daughter. So, would it be a younger woman?

 

I know. But still....

 

But still ... you want those perky boobs and tight asses! hahahahaha

 

I miss the milkman. I miss soda fountains. I miss coke in a glass bottle outa red baked enamel cooler.

I miss a young generation united for something, anything. . . .

 

Although I am not yet extremely far from my "youth" (I know 25 is still young).. but it doesn't matter your "age". The past, specifically "childhood", always seems so very distant once it is behind you. And what I miss the most is the feeling of being high... naturally high. Being constantly excited, and more than just "content" with daily things; like playing in the woods for the ENTIRE day (or just riding my bike outside up and down the street w/ my brother, or my neighbors, until the sun went down). Those days seemed to last so long! I never felt just "content" back then, like I so often feel now as an adult (where this contentment has almost become my highest, or "best", level of feeling, ..for the most part). I miss the child who, when she felt merely "content" with something, moved on to more exciting and better things.. without a moments hesitation! And they didn't involve mind altering substances; the thing that becomes the WAY to overcome the similar feeling of "boring" or "contentedness" (the mundane, the regular, ..the often disappointing reality). I truly miss when I wasn't concerned with when I'd be smoking next, or drinking, or altering my mind in some kind of druggish way. It seems that back then my ideas and day to day plans happened so slowly (as everything seems to happen in youth) that I felt like I had all the time in the world, and that the day I was living in was the only one comprehensible!

I miss innocence! It leaves suddenly, I think, because I never noticed, or can pinpoint it's exact time of departure...

..and yet after all that, I'd still choose to be in my adult, truth knowing, reality seeing mind. Life is so intricately, and crazily (and perfectly?) laid out sometimes.. <3

 

Walking to Pasqualies for a pizza - a friend of mine's father had one.
Playing Pin Ball Machines -
Standing up through the open top of a Fiat and throwing water balloons -
Someone yelling LARK and a car full of us kids jumping out of the car at a red light and running all the way around it.
And later - taking what little money I had and going where ever the hell I wanted to - Jamaica, New Orleans, Atlanta - and not worrying about getting hassled about it.

Oh wait - I forgot - scrounging up four bits so we would have enough gas for the evening - .299 per gal (Occasionally .239 if there was a gas war on)

 

I miss an AIDs free world.

 

Yes, in our youth we only had to worry about Syphillis, Gonnhorea or the crabs, all curable. Now there's AIDS, herpes, chlamidia, genital warts, etc., all lifelong scourges. Sex is scary!

 

Amen.

 

Otis Redding, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye - That was music anybody, black or white, could enjoy.

 

Wow, quite a bit. Definately much was covered here - i really miss the energy, passion, vibrancy and pure stamina WITHOUT pain and stiffness that came with youth. i miss novelty (& thus am tremendously thankful for what DMT has to offer me in middle age). i miss the strange suburban attitude that bespoke an attitude of safety back then. If the kids were obnoxious they were told to "Go outside and play!" and they'd have to be called back in way after dark with no real worries. A truly responsible parent wouldn't dare do that for any length of time today it seems.

i miss all my dead relatives - too many of them were taken way before their times. Though it may sound a tad pathetic, i miss my dead kitties - so many of them were so unique and special.

i miss Jerry Garcia. i miss Terence McKenna. i miss Carl Sagan. i miss D.M. Turner. i miss Albert Hofmann.

There is much i am grateful and would never trade about this part of my life there is no doubt, but i do look back on the past more and more with a sense of nostalgia and poignancy.

Peace & Love,
Spicey Cat
Purrr!

 

the density of the the hair on my scalp

 

I wont say that I really miss a whole lot from my youth. More than that I miss the things that my kids aren't able to do that I was able to do as a kid.
Like going out in my yard and having an adventure every day (we lived on a couple of acres mingled with woods) now I have a 1/3 acre lot in suburbia and most of that is house.
I wish my girls could know the fun of catching lightning bugs on a summer evening and using them to read comic books at night under the covers.
I wish they could go out on halloween until midnight and not have to be escorted on thier candy gathering rounds.
I wish my kids could experience the mystery and magic of Christmas the way I did as a child. Now it's just over commercialized crap.

These and many other things I miss from my youth, not for myself, but because they are experiences that my kids have never gotten to experience.

 

picking wildflowers for my mother.

 

Being coordinated dancing dancing dancing concerts parties and minimal responsibilities having a great body not having to try clothes on before buying them. Everybody had long hair and a carefree mindset.

 

i dont remember much from when i was a kid in the 70's except hanging out by the rail road tracks and listening to Iron Butterfly and black sabbath with my dad those were some good times that i can remember and miss.

 

Mostly the ability to move around and not be in constant pain.

 

Is It Arthritus....???



Cheers Glen.

 

That and more.

 

The other side of that one is that I miss those gorgeous young men with long hair and flat stomachs! I still see guys like that around but they're too young for me now! I'd feel like their Mum.