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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe older I get the less I know.
Hell, when I was 16 I knew everything! What the hell happened?!
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The older I get the less I know. (Original Post)
Tobin S.
Dec 2016
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ret5hd
(20,535 posts)1. Maybe, like Sampson, your wisdom lived in your hair.
Are you bald?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now.
FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)9. Nice!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)3. The older you get, the less you will care!
rug
(82,333 posts)4. As people leave childhood they forget what's important.
When they get older they begin to remember.
rurallib
(62,468 posts)5. When you get as old as me you reach an equilibrium
dumb as a board but don't give a shit.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)6. And remember 16 clearly but forget what you had for lunch
doc03
(35,395 posts)8. I wish I could forget some of the stuff I did and said when I was young,
instead of what I did yesterday.
doc03
(35,395 posts)7. The older I get the less I want to know how little
I knew when I was young.
lastlib
(23,340 posts)10. Kinda like my dad---
When I was four, he knew everything!
When I was fourteen, he didn't know a damn thing.
When I was twenty-four, I was AMAZED at how much the ol' guy had learned in ten years!