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Living Your Life To The Fullest At Your Twenties
| Living Your Life To The Fullest At Your TwentiesThe question is, how do we live our lives to the fullest at twenties? I am very much interested on some tips on this matter since I am not getting any younger and that I am coming nearer and nearer on the age of thirty. Do you know any good tips on how we can able to live and enjoy life at twenties? Let us share thoughts here. Thanks a lot. |
|  "Nice question."
Each one has his/her own ideas about what "live our lives to the fullest" means. Also, personal circumstances sometimes make you solve some very basic problems before being able to live at the fullest. In my case, during the twenties, I tried to make a balance between those factors. I tried to live doing the things I liked the most, while trying to solve the basic problems that would make a good basement to construct the future (and I'm not just talking about money...). A delicate balance, I should say. And when you become older you will probably always wonder if you should have build a little more, or "live" a little more. The fact is that: a) THERE IS A FUTURE (something that many young people these days tend to forget), and b) YOU ONLY HAVE TWENTIES ONCE (something that some young people also forget and will regret in the future).Sorry if this doesn't help a lot. The balance between a and b is very personal. However, let me tell you you have even better ages to live ahead. The thirties are really the golden age. It's when you already know, and still can. :) |
Comment #205/10/10 13:20Rural east Colonia departmento | "Long ago"
I'm probably not the best person to offer advice as my own 20s didn't turn out too well. After some very disagreeable experiences in South East Asia during my teens, I spent most of my 20s engaged in a futile struggle against the warmongering politicians and the vested interests which support wars-for-profit trying to change hearts and minds. I failed of course and was punished for my actions but were I magically returned to my youth, I'd try to do it again but more effectively :-) The best advice I've seen used to be rewritten daily in huge letters on the sand dunes of Gran Canaria by an aged hippy. "Its your life... live it!" |
| "Living Life to the Fullest"
In my late teens and early twenties I took a lot of chances. I lived life like I was going to die tomorrow. I boxed Golden Gloves. I tried to drive to Rio de Janeiro not knowing anything about passports. I literally ran for the border in Juarez, Mexico or I probably wouldn't be here today. I was a combat soldier in Vietnam and volunteered more often than I should have. When I returned home, I rode with a motorcycle gang and again did a lot of thing I shouldn't have. I also became an Ironworker and worked on bridges an tall buildings. At 35, I went to college for 2 years. At 60, I still take chances. It's who I am.I wouldn't do a lot of that stuff again or recommend going as far as I did, but I wouldn't trade the experiences for anything. What we experience in life makes us who we are. If you play it safe all the time, you'll miss out on a lot. Face your fears. What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, but if you go out of control as I did, you may not live to reflect on things. God likes me. That's why I'm still here. Find the balance. It's hard to do in your twenties. Take some chances while you are young enough to bounce back. Think about it before you do it. Don't be foolish but if you are going to play it safe all the time, you might as well stay in the house. What may seem foolish to someone else may be very important to you. Pick you experiences most of the time, but once in a while, let the experience pick you. You'll know when you've gone too far, especially if you are closer to thirty. Hope this helps. |
| "La juventud es eterna -"
My twenties were the transition from Kid to Adult (too early, maybe)I become a Father at 22 and the responsibility that came with the job. I took that very serious. Also I moved to the United States away from my Family and that was hard. But everything in life, the good and the bad will form you as a Man. If I had to give advice it would be , build your foundation now and wait for 35 those are the real golden years. |
| "Living Life To The Fullest"
I forgot to mention. If I did not take the chance, I will have always wondered and probably would have regreted not doing so. Taking chances have gotten ME further ahead in life than than not taking them. I can't say it works that way for everyone. |
| "Giacomo Leopardi «Pensées» XLVII"
«L'homme est condamné soit a consummer sans but sa jeunesse, alors que c'est pour lui la seule période qu'il peut consacrer à assurer son entretien futur; soit au contraire à la perdre, afin d'offrir de jouissances à cette partie de sa vie où il ne sera plus capable de jouir.»I'll give a loose translation: "Man is condemned either to waste his youth without any goals, while for him it's the only period of his life that he can make efforts to ensure his future maintenance: or, to the contrary, loose his youth in the pursuit of ensuring pleasure for a later period in his life when he'll be no longer able to enjoy it." My advice: We, none of us, know what the future holds. Find a balance between enjoying today and providing for tomorrow. |
| "Quote"
One of my favorite quotes:"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover, when it is too late, that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Shirley |
| "I love it!"
A bunch of old farts talking about what it is or should be like to be 20! Where are the 20 year olds to tell us about how it really is? |
Comment #905/11/10 15:14Rural east Colonia departmento | "Applause"
An excellent comment richly deserved... I'm tempted to throw in a "Right on maaan!" I'll shuffle off to get my pipe and slippers. :-) |
| "However..."
I disagree. We all know how it was to be 20 yo, and 30yo and 40yo, and 50, and you name it. The guy was asking about our opinions based on our experiences. And I have to say I liked all the answers and different viewpoints. There were much more doubts than "should be's". Not too usefull for Albert, but very enjoyable. |
| "Living the 20´s"
What a thread! One almost feels speechless thinking about this one. Let´s give it a try. From what I remember life in my twenties was a thoughtless affair. Many things were taken for granted. Many things seemed unimportant. Especially the thought of death was virtually absent. Soren Kirkegaard said that life without the thought of death is meaningless. I have seen young people living like they were immortal. If that weren´t so, then young men would not volunteer to be sent to war. The reason: non think that they will actually die! You start living when you start to see the reality of death. It´s not a question of seeing death all the time, it´s a question of knowing that it´s around. It will come. Seeing that vreality makes one think of the actual results of our actions. All of a sudden there is an existential depth that wasn´t there before. That´s what it means to "mature". |
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