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How often have you said "If I only knew then what I know now"?

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Posted - December 9, 2019
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    7354
    Quite often. 
      December 9, 2019 4:16 PM MST
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  • 14795
    More times than I can count ,but not always using the same words or letters ...its uncanny or would be if I could remember....:( 
      December 9, 2019 4:29 PM MST
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  • 10469
    Never.  It's more like  - If I could only remember now what I think I knew then.
      December 9, 2019 4:33 PM MST
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  • 4631
    I rarely say it aloud to others because I know how foolish it is. After all, how can one possibly know all that when young?

    But I often think it.
      December 9, 2019 4:36 PM MST
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  • 44231
    That's kinda what I meant...said it to yourself.
      December 9, 2019 8:06 PM MST
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  • 1371
    Sounds familiar. Or: "If only I'd worked as hard then as I would now."
      December 9, 2019 5:23 PM MST
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  • 44231
    I did...now I can't.
      December 9, 2019 8:07 PM MST
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  • If I had known then all the things I know now it would have effectively acted as nothing more than a watery deluge being thrown on the fire of youthful living and drowning out its light.  It probably would have impeded the freedom and beauty found in child-like impetuousness, stifled arrogant and erroneous yet perfectly necessary beliefs that I was impervious to death and aging, and undoubtedly would have brought down to earth helium filled dreams that were instead meant to take flight on every erratic zephyr of adolescence and young adulthood.  Don't get me wrong, I prize what I have learned along the way, the good and the bad, but I count even dearer to me those years when I in my blissful ignorance knew nothing but wanting to live my life and do so big! 
      December 9, 2019 6:07 PM MST
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  • 4631
    You make some excellent points.

    I've often thought that it's the lack of knowledge of how perilous something is that allows youth to take grand risks.
    Some of them die or are left crippled.
    Others discover new things that benefit the whole of humanity.
    And in the zone-in-between are the rest of us.
    It's how we learn.




    This post was edited by inky at December 10, 2019 3:07 PM MST
      December 9, 2019 6:20 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Or you could have been a contender for welter -weight champion of the world.  

    I hope you are happy.

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      December 10, 2019 3:01 PM MST
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  • 14795
    But I do know now what I knew then ,if I recall correctly that is...plus if memory serves me correctly that is...:( 
      December 9, 2019 8:57 PM MST
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  • 6023
    Every time they announce the winning lottery numbers.  lol
      December 10, 2019 2:51 PM MST
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  • 46117
    That is a recipe for depression that I do not care to make.
      December 10, 2019 2:59 PM MST
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