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Are the twenties the best years of your life?

  • 16-05-2013 11:55PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    Or is every decade soul destroying ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Can't it be both?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Early to mid-twenties. All downhill from there due to responsibilities and your body's slow but steady death.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 El Chucko


    Twenties for me. 35 now and I feel like I'm on the slide!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 El Chucko


    El Chucko wrote: »
    Twenties for me. 35 now and I feel like I'm on the slide!

    And they were the best only because I can't remember most of them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,624 ✭✭✭NoQuarter


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    Or is every decade soul destroying ?

    I certainly hope not! I'm bagging on my thirties being the best years!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    Or is every decade soul destroying ?

    YES!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    If it's not,then you're doing it wrong.

    That goes for any decade.

    That goes for life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    Yes, I think they are the best in a way.

    I drank too much, I partied too hard, I blew all my money on stupid things, because I could. But in the meantime,I got my qualifications and now in my late 20's with an amazing son and fiance, I'm ready to become a grown up! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Only 21-29, the rest are crap. 30 is :eek: 40 is :( and 50 is, presumably :o interspersed with bits of :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Every year is the best year of your life.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 Kirby92


    It is what you make it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    Kirby92 wrote: »
    It is what you make it.

    so if you make it good, it will be good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 Kirby92


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    so if you make it good, it will be good.

    Yup, age is a state of mind. I know I 62 year old who rides motorbikes around Europe. Badass.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭kat.mac


    Self doubt, confusion, poor decisions and an excess of almost everything.

    Yeah, class decade!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭juneg


    In your 20's you only have to think about yourself.
    Responsibilities come later. Not just work / career path but your responsibilities towards your young family and your aging parents.

    I'd say I'm a happier more settled person now in my 40's
    but dammit the 20's were great crack and you wont get that back again.
    Not least because your peers begin to settle down and get sense too! Soon there's no one to go out with!

    If you want to go see the world, the 20's are the time to do it. Otherwise you may not get around to it until you are retired.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Depends on...on...yeah it is.

    The rest of our days are rubbish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Gordon Gecko


    Al Capone, the Free State, economic flourish all ending in tears.....'twas some decade alright


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Kirby92 wrote: »
    Yup, age is a state of mind. I know I 62 year old who rides motorbikes around Europe. Badass.


    Totally agree, I had some great times in my teens, great times in my 20's, I'm in my mid-30's and I still can't say any decade was better than the other, they were all brilliant!

    Life is indeed what you make it! :D


  • Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Holland Screeching Glue


    juneg wrote: »
    In your 20's you only have to think about yourself.
    Responsibilities come later. Not just work / career path but your responsibilities towards your young family and your aging parents.

    I'd say I'm a happier more settled person now in my 40's
    but dammit the 20's were great crack and you wont get that back again.
    Not least because your peers begin to settle down and get sense too! Soon there's no one to go out with!

    If you want to go see the world, the 20's are the time to do it. Otherwise you may not get around to it until you are retired.;)

    Says who? :confused: I know loads of people in their 20's with either young families or relatives who need looking after.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    I effing hope not!! I have spent the best part of my twenties studying and not taking up opportunities to be more engaged with the world outside of the different study spaces I've lived in.

    When I am finally done, I plan on going out and to quote a friend, "unleashing a tsunami of sin" on the world. I shall gauge myself on all manner of debauchery. The next decade is going to be an ode to pleasure. Hello thirties! :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Move on lads when you reach the sixties and get in towards the middle, I think it is the best time. You have no money and you don't give a fook. For me it will be worse next year, so what, we will survive, and hopefully the scumbags that destroyed our lives, will have a horrible and painful death.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Everyone is different. My teens were by far better than my 20s


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 Swordfish trombone


    The year I left secondary school (as a 17 yo) I remember a teacher telling us that the best days of your life are those from when you leave school to the day you get married. He was telling us to enjoy the utter irresponsibilty of 'youth', of everything, before committing to life and responsibility and adulthood and taxes and family and mortage etc etc. He was right -and I'm older now than he was when he dispensed his advice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭Miike




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    Or is every decade soul destroying ?
    Particularly the first one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    For me personally, in terms of craic and debauchery....yes, the 20s were the best for that. Make the most of them. Do everything and everyone under the sun.

    In terms of being more consistently happier in my head and not thinking my arse is fat all the time...my 30s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I really hope not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    What's really depressing is that there are probably some people reading this thread that were born in this century.:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    The year I left secondary school (as a 17 yo) I remember a teacher telling us that the best days of your life are those from when you leave school to the day you get married. He was telling us to enjoy the utter irresponsibilty of 'youth', of everything, before committing to life and responsibility and adulthood and taxes and family and mortage etc etc. He was right -and I'm older
    now than he was when he dispensed his advice.

    So roughly 17 to 30? Is that right?


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  • Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Holland Screeching Glue


    The year I left secondary school (as a 17 yo) I remember a teacher telling us that the best days of your life are those from when you leave school to the day you get married. He was telling us to enjoy the utter irresponsibilty of 'youth', of everything, before committing to life and responsibility and adulthood and taxes and family and mortage etc etc. He was right -and I'm older now than he was when he dispensed his advice.

    :confused:

    It's not as if you leave school and then live in some sort of wonderland until you get married. You have all kinds of responsibilities in your twenties - work, renting a place, bills, taxes. Perhaps not kids and a mortgage, but lots of people never have those. I know I'm relatively 'free' compared to people without kids, but that's because I haven't had kids yet, not because of my age. I've never felt this 'irresponsibility' you speak of, bar perhaps on my Erasmus year.


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