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Re: If You Could Be Young Again...

Unread postby eastbay » Wed 19 Dec 2007, 20:57:47

One thing I would have done differently was to have quit drinking at age 18 rather than wait until age 27. Drinking those last 10 years cost me many, many times the simple cost of the booze. I could have easily retired a few years earlier and been better off in so many ways.

Anyone who thinks they're drinking too much needs to quit immediately. Really.
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Re: If You Could Be Young Again...

Unread postby vision-master » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 11:48:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'O')ne thing I would have done differently was to have quit drinking at age 18 rather than wait until age 27. Drinking those last 10 years cost me many, many times the simple cost of the booze. I could have easily retired a few years earlier and been better off in so many ways.

Anyone who thinks they're drinking too much needs to quit immediately. Really.


I enjoy drinking. You just have to have enough will power to limit yourself. I guess that's the difference between those that can and those that can't.
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Re: If You Could Be Young Again...

Unread postby SpringCreekFarm » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:10:03

I would have stayed on the farm and started preparing for independence a lot earlier.

I would not have spent so much time trying to be a musician.

I would have waited to have children instead of fathering a child when I was 15, but only if I was guaranteed to get the daughter I have now.

I don't know.....this list could get pretty long...
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Re: If You Could Be Young Again...

Unread postby eastbay » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:16:57

I enjoy drinking. You just have to have enough will power to limit yourself. I guess that's the difference between those that can and those that can't.

Yeah... that must be it.
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Re: If You Could Be Young Again...

Unread postby JJ » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 17:47:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'O')ne thing I would have done differently was to have quit drinking at age 18 rather than wait until age 27. Drinking those last 10 years cost me many, many times the simple cost of the booze. I could have easily retired a few years earlier and been better off in so many ways.

Anyone who thinks they're drinking too much needs to quit immediately. Really.


wow...thats when I quit...and ditto about the consequences...now I'm 49...and just found out about PO a couple of years ago....would have done ALOT of things differently...but hopefully would have still met my spouse...
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Re: If You Could Be Young Again...

Unread postby eastbay » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 19:56:53

JJ,

Interesting. I'm 53. 26 years now. The path I took after quitting drinking led me directly to my wife, who gets credit for saving me many times over.

I wish I had met her a few years earlier too! That's one more change I would have made.
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Re: If You Could Be Young Again...

Unread postby JJ » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 20:04:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'J')J,

Interesting. I'm 53. 26 years now. The path I took after quitting drinking led me directly to my wife, who gets credit for saving me many times over.

I wish I had met her a few years earlier too! That's one more change I would have made.


ditto.
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Re: If You Could Be Young Again...

Unread postby kadoomsoon » Fri 21 Dec 2007, 03:16:31

Go basck to 60's and write the DOS program for the IBM PC using Linux. Take some red hat disks and source code back.
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