I think I actually looked the best of my life about six months ago. So there's hope to be back there shortly.
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Jesse - Feb 03, 2005 4:56:30 pm PST #3804 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Feb 03, 2005 4:56:47 pm PST #3805 of 10002
DavidS - Feb 03, 2005 4:57:54 pm PST #3806 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I choose to think my prime is in front of me.
Phew, that's optimistic. Not that I don't think you can do it. But I was highly conscious when I was doing construction work at age 23 that I was peaking and there was no way I'd ever be gym bunny enough to be in that good shape again.
Gus - Feb 03, 2005 4:58:20 pm PST #3807 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
That is what I'm saying. 19 is Maya. Illusion.
The real deal comes later.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2005 5:00:03 pm PST #3808 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
19 was -- well, 21 inch waist and the rack had just come in. But I think I looked better at many points since I turned 30 (including now), and have no interest, in the most wishful of universes, of looking like any of my teen selves again.
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Phew, that's optimistic.
My body looked better at 33 than at 19, and better now than I did at 33.
aurelia - Feb 03, 2005 5:02:08 pm PST #3809 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I think I probably felt my best at 28. I'm not sure who'd be able to say if that's when I looked my best.
Steph L. - Feb 03, 2005 5:02:25 pm PST #3810 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I choose to think my prime is in front of me.
Phew, that's optimistic.
Well, it's my Princess Diana theory. She was, what, 19 when she married Charles? And she by no means peaked then. [NB: I don't just mean her body, but also her face, her "looks" in general.] At 19, she was still very baby-faced.
Some women, I think, grow into their looks, and Diana was one of them. And I suspect I am, too. Not just b/c I dislike the idea of everything from here on out being downhill, because -- ick, but mostly because I've always looked young as hell, and was really baby-faced at 19.
I think I'm just now growing into my looks, frankly.
sarameg - Feb 03, 2005 5:02:26 pm PST #3811 of 10002
I'm going to go with not believing in prime. My aim is to be happy and healthy with who and where I am, be it 12, 19, 25, 30, 42 or 113 (hey, I had a greatgrandmother who made it there.) Which, granted, I am not always. Like now. Juuust gotten used to one shape and found new nice stuff that fits and it changed. And I'm not happy with it. But I'll either find a way to be happy or do something about it.
Comfortable is important. Most important.
Scrappy - Feb 03, 2005 5:02:33 pm PST #3812 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think I looked better COMPARED TO EFFORT at 19 than later. I could stay up all night for days on end, eat nothing but chocolate and crackers, wash my face with a bar of soap, and still look bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I didn't look better, period. I ahve days I look better now at 48, for gosh sakes.
DavidS - Feb 03, 2005 5:03:41 pm PST #3813 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My body looked better at 33 than at 19, and better now than I did at 33.
Yeah, but you're cuckoo for Krav-o-puffs. When I was working outside for 10 hours a day I could get in shape, and my younger metabolism could maintain it. Now I'm at a computer or commuting in traffic 10 hours a day, and my metabolism is a lot slower. It's obviously possible, but basic life circumstances of adult hood conspire against it.