The older I get, the more I _____________________

[Spacemom]

Share your wisdom of the ages. How would you fill in the blank?

The Older I get, the more I just don't give a damn what other people think. :P

[Blue-Jay]

1. Fart.

[Left Is Write]

2. The older I get, the more my knees hurt.

Today, they've been hurting all damn day.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Need my beauty sleep

[Sabriel]

4. have to urinate. n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. despise the "common" man as the ignorant, fearful, unworthy of laud pile of mindless lazy shit he is

[raccoon]

39. I'm coming to agree with you. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. Good! Thank you! Not that there aren't really good and wonderful common men (women),

but the romantic notion of a wondrously moral and virtuous Common Man as somehow better and more valuable than an educated man, a complex man, or a worldly man, makes me puke because of its falsity.

Most "common" men are just ignorant, vulgar spewers of garbage.

But, on the other hand, they work in the factories, so they fulfill a necessary role.

[Ptah]

6. realize how badly I have screwed up.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

25. Seconded for my own personal circumstances

[av8rdave]

7. stop caring about the would haves/could haves earlier in my life

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. ...just don't give a shit.

[Z_I_Peevey]

9. appreciate solitude.

Peace and quiet, baby, peace and quiet.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. The older I get the more I realize how long a day can be without

the one I love.

[sakabatou]

11. remember how bad the anime I saw as a kid.

[mainegreen]

14. I saw as a kid, what?

Finish the sentence man!

:7

[sakabatou]

16. Anime like

Digimon, Pokemon and others.

[mcctatas]

12. The older I get, the more I wish that my state's criminal code

had a "needed killing" clause...

[old mark]

18. Amen, brother - maybe we should email the governor. nt

[mcctatas]

20. ahem...

don't ya mean Amen sister? ;)

[old mark]

31. ER, yeah - hard to see through this keyboard.

I just realised you are Irish.
No insult intended.

mark

[lizerdbits]

13. I'll go with your statement

One of the best pieces of advice I got was "If someone can't influence your life in a positive way, who cares what they think?"

[Name removed]

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[old mark]

17. ...the happier I have become, but

I also realise how unhappy I was.
My answer is to live a long time, be happy and get over the bad parts of my life.

Since I have retired, I don't have to deal with bosses - the miserable officious bastards and their petty and nasty lives - who delight in passing their misery on to everyone else. I am happier and more contend every day, but have no use for those people.

mark

[leeroysphitz]

19. The older I get, the more I ....

quietly weep myself to sleep night after night.

[Arugula Latte]

21. ...wake up in the middle of the night in a panic

and think about how we will ever be able to pay for the kids' college and our "golden" :eyes: years.

[LuckyLib]

22. . . . the more I realize how much I want to be around family and friends.

Spending days swimming upstream against tides of egos and wasted energy at work? Not so much.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. ...appreciate things that I shunned or overlooked when I was younger

[struggle4progress]

24. the more I have trouble remembering how old I am

[Inchworm]

26. The older I get, the more I wonder what I don't know

:hi:

[JeffR]

27. The more freakin' white hot enraged and infuriated I get.

Thanks for asking.

[mcctatas]

28. What next?

Hey you kids get off my lawn? :evilgrin:

[old mark]

32. I also find myself complaining about loud music.....nt

[RushIsRot]

29. Wrinkle...

[panhead1961]

30. The older I get, the more I hurt myself while I'm sleeping

[raccoon]

33. am able to accept things I can't change. Or maybe it's just that I'm

too tired to rail against them as much as I used to.

[tigereye]

36. my husband just told me I'm one of "hell's grannies"

and I'm not even a grannie yet! He was worried that I was going to go down and protest Palin while she was here! :rofl:


If my son weren't off school, i probably would!

[AngryAmish]

34. have hair growing out of my ears.

Gross!

[tigereye]

35. feel comfortable in my skin....

it's actually pretty cool. :woohoo:

[KatyMan]

37. dislike young people....

:D

[atomic-fly]

38. Agree with Spacemom

The Older I get, the more I realize that I am better than I've ever given myself credit for!

[jobycom]

40. ...judge people for who they are rather than who I wish people were.

I've lost a lot of my self-righteous certainty that intelligence and education are the value of a person. Give me an honest simpleton over an over-educated elitist prick any day. Even if I'm closer to the latter a lot of times. :)