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.
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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.
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.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2005 5:04:25 pm PST #3814 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I plan to hit my prime at 37. Perhaps again at 41.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2005 5:06:17 pm PST #3815 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
basic life circumstances of adult hood conspire against it.
Pfah. I was doing the martial arts at 19 too. Body buffer and better now. I honestly think something clicked at around 30. I'm not going to lie -- I was an athletic but slim 19 year old. Even leanly muscular.
Body's better now -- more muscular, more sculpted, bigger breasts.
Jesse - Feb 03, 2005 5:06:26 pm PST #3816 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And 47?
DavidS - Feb 03, 2005 5:08:20 pm PST #3817 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Body's better now -- more muscular, more sculpted, bigger breasts.
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§ ita § - Feb 03, 2005 5:09:18 pm PST #3818 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And 47?
Don't rush! 43 first!
Jesse - Feb 03, 2005 5:10:01 pm PST #3819 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Don't rush! 43 first!
Whoops. Jumped the gun a little.
Gus - Feb 03, 2005 5:12:50 pm PST #3820 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I'm 50 and lame from various adventures. Still pretty, though, 'cuz of the exercise and stuff.
Still, 19 was a long time ago.
It is different for the mens. This pisses off the womens.
Steph L. - Feb 03, 2005 5:15:30 pm PST #3821 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
It is different for the mens. This pisses off the womens.
Different, how? 19 is better for the women than the men? I'm confused, as I've never been a 19-year-old guy.