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Life is short. As soon as you have kids you're teleported forwards twenty five years.

• billti 5y ago
  Kids are a whole different amazing experience though. I’m glad I got wasted and partied in my youth. I’m glad I travelled and saw different countries. I’m glad I dated a bunch and fell in love with several women. I’m glad I held a few jobs through most of that and have the career I do now. I’m glad I’m with my amazing wife and our two young kids bring joy and light into every day. I’m glad I sunk a bunch of time/money (once) into buying and fixing up a place. A lot of these responses seem to imply it’s either/or. That’s not the case at all, and indeed I’d say doing any ONE thing for your life, even if it’s laying in a hammock on a tropical beach, gets boring after a while. Mix it up. Variety is the spice of life. Savor the world in this one life you have. I’d say the one rule is not to F-up so badly you can’t recover from it.
  • Aeolun 5y ago
    I’m certainly happy I got wasted in my youth. Doing it now is a horror that takes multiple days to recover from, and then we’re talking about having 4 beers… Ultimately not everything in life went as I would have wanted, but if I compare my situation with others I think I can be well satisfied. I don’t particularly mind the idea of working until 65 either, I’m going to be doing something anyway. As long as it’s interesting and I get rewarded enough to be happy, that’s fine with me.
• cercatrova 5y ago
  That's if you have kids. Many people are choosing not to these days so they get to have the extra money and the time.
  • Broken_Hippo 5y ago
    Unless you are one of many that are avoiding having children because you already have neither have money nor time.