To be young again.... Would you give up all your money to be 18, in shape and cute?

[marylander1940]

To be young again.... Would you give up all your money to be 18, in shape and cute? Young folks live in a different world compared to what we have to endured growing up in the past: life out of the closet, marriage, internet, etc?

 

I would do it in a heartbeat! But I'm just worth 400K.

 

Btw I'm aware we talked about this a year ago, I'm just curious to see new guys talk about this.

[gallahadesquire]

I joined a gym in April. Now that school is out, all the teenagers come in. They are, for the most part, built and good-looking. And vapid.

It is almost painful to listen to their "banter". Yeah, I'm an old fart, but my 32 year old Personal Trainer agrees with me. Hell, the 27 year

old Personal Trainer (who quit on me) agreed.

 

I'm fortunate in that Personal Trainer 2 thought me to be 50 (I'm 63). So I have luck in that department.

[bobchitown]

18 is too young. I'd sign up for 28.

[jimboivyo]

youth is wasted on the young

 

I'd rather be me. Money might not buy happiness but it certainly helps. Broke and handsome? No thanks.

[marylander1940]

youth is wasted on the young

 

I'd rather be me. Money might not buy happiness but it certainly helps. Broke and handsome? No thanks.

 

You could make a fortune escorting (if you have the stomach to do it) and have several 3some with Benjamin Nicholas and get paid.

 

18 is too young. I'd sign up for 28.

 

When I was 18, 28 y/o men were old for me... now 55 is young!

 

I'd rather be 21 again so I can drink, sooner or later I'd turn 28.

 

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[dcguy20]

18 - absolutely not! Approaching my 51st birthday and will say I've been happy with every age I've been, but I'd take another shot at 35 though.

[tanman4u]

Trade all my worth to be 18 again? Hell yea, I'd be young and debt free.......!

[EastbayMike]

35 is(was) the sweet spot for me.

[+ purplekow]

35 is(was) the sweet spot for me.

I have always thought 38 was a great age. As a man, you are mature enough to know what you want out of your life and you have some idea of how to achieve it and are still young enough to do it. I know there are plenty of people out there who think that this was true of them at 28, but at that age, i was too busy doing what i was told my life should be, to do what I wanted my life to be. So for me, 38 but I would guess 28-38 is right for most. My roommate in school was 28 when I had my 25th birthday. He told me on that day, enjoy it because it is all downhill from here. Well it was not straight downhill, but it certainly did trend that way in many areas. Still, I am pretty happy with where my life has taken me. it is fun to think about what would have happened had I not listened to the scarecrow and gone down the road to the left, but it is likely I would have missed the TinMan and the Lion if I had gone right or straight.

[+ WilliamM]

youth is wasted on the young

 

I'd rather be me. Money might not buy happiness but it certainly helps. Broke and handsome? No thanks.

 

I completely disagree. I would want enough money to attend a good university. That could be from a very small trust fund plus working during summers and Christmas breaks. I would also join the military reserves with the understand that I might be called up for active duty. Even then, I would probably have student loans to pay back. It is a very easy choice for me because the opportunities now for gays and lesbians are so much greater than when I was growing up, especially for handsome young men and attractive young women.

[Diverdan]

I would not start over. If I knew at 18 or 28 what I know now, I might have done a few things differently, but I have no regrets, and I know a lot of 18-25 year olds right now for reasons I can't disclose, but many of them are very unhappy, even though they are smart and good looking... they lack a lot of social skills and are well aware of that, and are struggling to find a place in life where they can be happy, even though the ones who are gay and are out, still have a lot of challenges and really don't know how to deal with them.

[big-n-tall]

Nope.

 

Considering I'm about the same weight I was in high school (although I don't consider myself old by any means), I haven't changed much physically (except less hair and more freckles). People think I'm younger than I am, usually by 10-15 years. When I was younger people thought i was older. So chronically my age has apparently leveled with my appearance. :-)

 

At my current age and life... I have the money to do what I want when I want and go any where, unlike when I was 18. Yeah there are few things I wish I could get back/change, but overall... I'm good and wouldn't revert to 18 for anything.

[+ FreshFluff]

18 is too young. I'd sign up for 28.

 

+500. I know so much more this time, and I really believe that if I started over, I could fall in love and be happy. Maybe I can now; I don't know yet.

[bigvalboy]

+500. I know so much more this time, and I really believe that if I started over, I could fall in love and be happy. Maybe I can now; I don't know yet.

 

But FF, you already are young and beautiful......and..... successful, sexy, and intelligent. Why would you seriously consider going back to an earlier time?

[+ Charlie]

18, in shape and gay? Been there, done that. It was fun, but why would I want to do it again?

[marylander1940]

18, in shape and gay? Been there, done that. It was fun, but why would I want to do it again?

 

To live again, but this time in a different world and completely out of the closet.

 

I'm aware many have a lot of college debt but we know a business a hot young men can do thanks to Viagra, and make all of us happy.

[+ Charlie]

To live again, but this time in a different world and completely out of the closet.

 

I'm aware many have a lot of college debt but we know a business a hot young men can do thanks to Viagra, and make all of us happy.

But I live in a different world NOW, and I probably enjoy those freedoms more at my age than I would if I were 18 again. After all, at 18 I WAS almost completely out of the closet, and there is nothing I would do if I were 18 again that I didn't manage to do when I was 18. Just because we didn't have the same social and legal freedoms that we have now doesn't mean that we had any less sex then, which is the only point of being 18 again.

[+ WilliamM]

Charlie, My impression of OP's question was truly being 18, and dealing with everything someone that age would face in 2014, not just sex. If I am wrong, I probably would change my answer on page one of this thread.

[marylander1940]

... After all, at 18 I WAS almost completely out of the closet, and there is nothing I would do if I were 18 again that I didn't manage to do when I was 18....

 

Damn, you had cojones.

 

Just because we didn't have the same social and legal freedoms that we have now doesn't mean that we had any less sex then, which is the only point of being 18 again.

 

Yes, but now we have to pay for sex with younger men, back then it was free and there was no HIV, just syphilis.

[+ Charlie]

I think this is a topic that is more likely to pose a serious question for the participant here who was not out at 18 and didn't have the kind of wild sex life he thinks he would have if he could be 18 now. However, many 18 year olds now don't have the kind of sex life we imagine, because they don't know all that we know just because we are older and experienced. In fact, being 18, cute and in shape has never been a guarantee of a great sex life at any time. I had lots of free sex when I was 18, because I was relatively uninhibited and had the right opportunities, and some of it was great, but a lot of it was disappointing or disturbing; I'm glad I had it when I did, because of the perspective it gave me on sex, but I wouldn't want to go back and repeat all that experience.

 

And one may not have paid for it with money, but there were other costs, too numerous to mention, for the experience. Also, there may not have been HIV, but syphilis, gonorrhea, crabs, hepatitis, herpes, giardiasis, etc., were not trivial effects of sexual activity.

[+ Gar1eth]

I would in a second if I could be smarter than I was back then. Heck I wish I could be smarter than I am now. If I had to start with my native 18 year old knowledge and experience and were living in the exact same situation I was then- what would be the use? Most likely everything would work out the exact same way.

 

Gman

[marylander1940]

I would in a second if I could be smarter than I was back then. Heck I wish I could be smarter than I am now. If I had to start with my native 18 year old knowledge and experience and were living in the exact same situation I was then- what would be the use? Most likely everything would work out the exact same way.

 

Gman

 

Thanks for posting, we agree on this.

 

I kept thinking of you all this weeks without an active forum, it must have been hellish for you.

[TruthBTold]

Sure. I would be 18, stupid, and insecure (perhaps). But eventually I would be 18+, smarter, and more secure (hopefully).

[Frequentflier]

To be young again.... Would you give up all your money to be 18, in shape and cute? Young folks live in a different world compared to what we have to endured growing up in the past: life out of the closet, marriage, internet, etc?

 

I would do it in a heartbeat! But I'm just worth 400K.

 

Btw I'm aware we talked about this a year ago, I'm just curious to see new guys talk about this.

 

"Just worth 400k". To many people that's a lot of money.

 

I would go back and start over again, even with my non Ivy League degree. I'd work less, love more and not repeat the billion mistakes I made. I've needed money of course but in looking back, it never really made me happy. I don't want to be poor (there is a big gap between poor and where I'm at so somewhere in between is fine) but it's people that make someone happy, not money.

[Decatur Guy]

Well, I envy today's young gay people the world they have now in terms of being out, accepted, etc., especially outside the Bible Belt.

 

But in terms of paying for college and getting started in a career, it was so much easier for my generation.