The other thread got me thinking. What are you glad that you did when you were young?





The other thread got me thinking. What are you glad that you did when you were young?
went to college right after high school...instead of putting it off...or letting my father talk me into going to the army...
i may not be 'passionate' about what i do now...but i do have a degree in computer science...which counts for something somewhere in this world...
Why do some people still have to fight...to get the same opportunities...that are given to others??...
Look out for self...because noone else will...AND
The greatest revenge in the world...is success...
Reclusivness...is a good thing.





hmmm, well the thing that comes to mind off the top of my head...I'm glad I paddled out on a surfboard to that tiny island off the coast of Kailua to go cliff jumping with my friends even though I got stung by a man-o-war and wailed like a baby on the paddle back...at dusk...when the sharks feed...and we looked like shark bait.
I'll never in my life pull that stunt again. But I'm glad I did it.
kept talking with my ex who is now my husband
I'm glad I dropped out of college. I didn't want to be there and was wasting money and time.




im glad that I got rid of my ex husband and spent the alimony money on a trip to the seychelles
I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
I'm glad I did lots of traveling.
Feature costumes for sale!
I am glad that I was an only "natural" child in my family.
I was able to spend so much time with my mom all to myself. I got to bake home-made cookies and make crafts. I was able to spend so much time with her before she died.
buy a house





I'm glad I had fun, and didn't give a shit what anyone thought! I actually got started on the right foot but got side-tracked and now I'm back!![]()



I am kinda glad I waitressed for two years before I started dancing. I worked so hard for so little and it really makes me appreciate what I have now. I know what it means to be dirt poor and I am careful when it comes to money rather than a girl who starts dancing right out of high school and assumes the money will always be there.![]()
Modified to add. I am glad that I believed in myself and not what others believed about me.
I'm glad I got out of a small town and got into a city where I wasn't judged for every past transgression.
I'm glad that I did everything I could to go to college and graduate.
I'm glad I didn't let college interfere with my education.
I'm glad I found a wonderful woman to marry.
I'm really glad she puts up with me.
I'm glad I have wonderful children all smart and beautiful and individuals.
I'm glad I don't define my life as my work.
I'm glad I care about people. (even though I'm an asshole sometimes)
I'm glad that I have Tampa Bucs season tickets and that the Lightning just won the Stanley Cup.
But most of all, I glad that I love life. ...What a ride... !!!!
OH, I forgot... I'm glad I don't have carnal knowledge of vegetables or fruit.... :o
Poem: "After an Absence," by Linda Pastan, from The Imperfect Paradise. © W.W. Norton and Co. Reprinted with permission.
After an Absence
After an absence that was no one's fault
we are shy with each other,
and our words seem younger than we are,
as if we must return to the time we met
and work ourselves back to the present,
the way you never read a story
from the place you stopped
but always start each book all over again.
Perhaps we should have stayed
tied like mountain climbers
by the safe cord of the phone,
its dial our own small prayer wheel,
our voices less ghostly across the miles,
less awkward than they are now.
I had forgotten the grey in your curls,
that splash of winter over your face,
remembering the younger man
you used to be.
And I feel myself turn old and ordinary,
having to think again of food for supper,
the animals to be tended, the whole riptide
of daily life hidden but perilous
pulling both of us under so fast.
I have dreamed of our bed
as if it were a shore where we would be washed up,
not this striped mattress
we must cover with sheets. I had forgotten
all the old business between us,
like mail unanswered so long that silence
becomes eloquent, a message of its own.
I had even forgotten how married love
is a territory more mysterious
the more it is explored, like one of those terrains
you read about, a garden in the desert
where you stoop to drink, never knowing
if your mouth will fill with water or sand.
im glad i took all the risks that i did and im glad that i got the courage to move out of my moms house at 18 because she was really starting to piss me off. I still cant stand up to her but i feel like i did what i had to do by getting away from her. I am also glad that i took the risque jobs that i did (strip clubs) because they have taught me important lessons about life and people in general and made me a more educated and street smart person, i feel like i have a one up on most women because i took those jobs and lived to tell about it.
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas




I am glad that I didn't give into peer ridicule and stopped reading voraciously when I was young. I still read constantly, and on as many different topics as I can. I always used to have a book or magazine with me when I was growing up. Names like "bookworm", "geek" "Einstein" were not meant to be fun ribbing - I was called them and others viciously and with the intention of bringing me down. At some point in my youth I thought "fuck them.. they dont live my life", so I would have books with me in defiance.
The names did subside when I got into my later teenage years after I grew my hair long, rode a skateboard, learned to play drums and played in a metal band (we were actually fairly good for 19 year olds) and generally moved to my own beat.
Those kids who rideculed me are long gone. I still have my love of reading, one college degree, and am working on another (and I can still play drums, still have long hair 17 years later, and occasionally still ride a skateboard). I am quite glad as an adult I didn't sour on reading when I was a kid just to fit in.
Holy Crap.. this all sounded like a Life Testimonal. Can I get an AMEN from the Congregation, Brothers and Sisters????![]()
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Amen Brother...
I read the whole library when I was a kid... when I wasn't being chased by the police....ha
I am glad for a few things...
I am glad that I had a loving family who took care of me...
but then I moved out on bad terms to live with my bf (now ex).
I am glad I did that because I HAD to start working to pay off my own things. (This gave me responsibility and independence)
Im glad I am almost done with college, and Im glad I have the chance to dance because I can pay for things I need, and save for my main goal.
edited to add: (We're not on bad terms, but for the first month I had moved out when I was 20 WAS) lol
I'm glad I learned to surf...nothing quite compares to the feeling of a sand shark nibblin on yer ankle, I'm glad I went skydiving(I'm petrified of heights so that was hard), I'm glad I partied my balls off(or else I never woulda surfed or skydived),I'm glad I joined the Navy (or else I never would have seen San Diego,or partied my balls off or etc..)
I'm glad I lost my damn virginity
Most of all I'm glad I survived being me!




If I had to pick just one thing, a good candidate would be travel:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." -Mark Twain
And I am also glad that I still get to do it regularly.
In fact, next month I will be in Reykjavik, Iceland (for the first time ever); I don't suppose any of you can suggest a good strip club there by any chance?
-Ww
"At this moment what more need we seek?
As the Truth eternally reveals itself,
This very place is the Lotus Land of Purity,
This very body is the Body of the Buddha."
- Zazen Wasan



Travel is my answer. Dancing gave me my first chance to do so. Nobody could ever understand how important this was to me -- it was what I dreamed about since I was little -- but going to new places taught me what was best about myself and what's best about life. Now I am working on making home just as wonderful & exciting as someplace abroad, but if I had never been abroad, I would never have known what I wanted my life to aspire to or how I wanted to live life. I still would have been struggling to find happiness in the 'norm' when deep down I have always known I am happiest living an unordinary kind of life. That's the kind of thing it is best to learn & embrace while you're young, before it's too late....
Let your indulgence set me free. - Shakespeare




Wow! I could easily have written almost exactly the same words about myself. When I was growing up I always felt a bit like I got off the bus at the wrong stop, so to speak, a feeling of not belonging and a certainty in my bones that I would have to get out into the wide world to find my life.Originally Posted by Sara... link=board=1;threadid=9895;start=msg119899#msg1198 99 date=1086751253
-Ww
"At this moment what more need we seek?
As the Truth eternally reveals itself,
This very place is the Lotus Land of Purity,
This very body is the Body of the Buddha."
- Zazen Wasan



Club Odal was the classiest club when I was in Iceland & I assume it still is. I don't recommend dancers dancing in Iceland (a lot of foreign girls dance there now - most Americans don't find it worth it), but I would recommend this club to a customer. Dance prices are generally more expensive than in the US though. Have fun!In fact, next month I will be in Reykjavik, Iceland (for the first time ever); I don't suppose any of you can suggest a good strip club there by any chance?
http://randburg.is/is/club_odal/
Let your indulgence set me free. - Shakespeare




I'm glad I left my 2 timing ex husband. Glad i pursued my modeling career..... glad I went back to college and glad I finally got some poetry published



Im am glad I met my best friend Erin and my Honey Colin
I am glad I am in love
I am glad I traveled and danced all over
I am glad I am still breathing!
What a great thread!
I'm glad that I took a risk and did something that I look back on and think "What on earth was I thinking?"- I moved, with nothing more than my car, my clothes and $1000 to Los Angeles when I was 17 knowing no one.....
I'm glad that I experienced the heartache of a first crush and finding out that he was very taken, and very married... and learning how it feels to have your heart broken.
I'm glad that I had my daughter young... young so that I have enough energy to keep up with her, and still be young when she is grown to enjoy my grandchildren someday...
I'm glad that my mom made me help the old man when I was 6 with all those boxes he was trying to carry, because I know now that someday I will need someone to help me...
I'm glad that I went to college, that I danced, and that I met all the wonderful people I have in my life...
When I'm old and gray and am wearing purple, I will dig out my trunk of stillettos and say, "Back in the day... "
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