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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 24, 2016 - 10:06pm PT
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I'm not much of a sentimentalist, and I rarely enjoy thinking about the past, but there were several years in my 20's that I would repeat if I could, some of them due to the minor debauchery, some due to my strength I had for climbing, and most just because I used to enjoy being around friends. I feel like a hermit. . .and I'm only 38.
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Oct 24, 2016 - 10:29pm PT
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I consider myself to be blessed in many ways. Although there were a number of years that I 'could have done better', would redoing them put me in a different place today?
I'll wear each and every one of my 56 years with pride, because you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, or a successful life without a few failures. It's part of who we are.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Oct 24, 2016 - 10:33pm PT
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Probably when my son was 7 to 12. So much fun. Probably the year's when Mom was on a pedestal.
Susan
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Oct 25, 2016 - 05:33am PT
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All of my years have prepared me for what I'm facing today. It's not like I need to relearn a hard lesson, have regrets or need to relive an event so I can cherish it more. I'd say the thing worth repeating is to be in the body I once had knowing what I know now. That's not a complaint, I'm lucky to be here as is everyone.
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snagglepuss
Mountain climber
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Oct 25, 2016 - 07:45am PT
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I'd repeat all of it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 25, 2016 - 08:48am PT
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NO.
There are adventures which I would like at my present age to repeat, however.
I'd like to have a nice rib-eye steak and baked potato with my old friends at the restaurant in the current version of Yosemite Lodge served by Barb, my favorite waitress from the old days.
LOTS of crackers for to break over the dinner salad.
Endless coffee refills while planning what to climb the next day while listening to Millis' outrageous stories, wishing I'd been in the Valley just a few years earlier.
Wow! A reverie in the midst of another reverie. How often does that happen?
This time I'd leave a tip for Barb. A big one.
You cannot go back, so it's a pointless reverie, but one we all seem to ponder as humans.
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Oct 25, 2016 - 08:57am PT
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Well.......hmmmm. I've had some pretty great years! And at 56, I still plan on having more great ones.....lots of plans!
I wish Jack hadn't died...I dearly miss my years with him. And I wish my knees weren't f#*ked. That I still had my 36 year old body! :-)
Other than that, I feel pretty darn good about where I stand right now.
pam
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:02am PT
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How many Our Fathers and Hail Marys would I have to recite?
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:09am PT
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I would redo my senior year of high school. First, I would have quit smoking pot. For those who say it isn't addictive - maybe not in the same way as alcohol, heroin, or other things, but I know beyond a doubt I was addicted. I smoked every day - first bong hits before getting out of bed, then on the way to school, then with school crew before classes started, then at lunch and then immediately after classes ended. Then, on the way home, and then as soon as at home, and then right after dinner, and finally before going to bed.
What a waste.
I would also have chosen to go to college. There was not ONE person who made the slightest effort to suggest I ought to go. No one TOLD me it would have been damned near free, with student aid. At one time I wanted to be a journalist, earlier an architect, and even earlier, a vet. But by the time I reached high school, I had lost all "hope" and my self-esteem was so low I thought no further than following the restaurant hostess path I was on at Big Boy.
Those are the two regrets I have in life - pot and not attending college. But I turned out okay after all, I guess. I probably would still be who I am today even so.
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:15am PT
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nah, you change one thing you change em all. these are the good old days.
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Matt Sarad
climber
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:30am PT
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30 years ago I had moved to Berkeley and put on my Mariachers and learned how to climb. Made to 5.11 and a V3 after lots of practice. I was determined to make it my life.
Downhill from there.
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:39am PT
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27
at least that is what the memberberries tell me
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snagglepuss
Mountain climber
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:41am PT
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He said repeat, not change!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:51am PT
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Skitch, don't be a stranger come and play with mouse and zB, in the Flames,
you'll fit right in what ever you bring, if you post in
It is a way back future time machine .
We are like one of the condiments here on the Taco stand,
what's missing in your life view is Relish.
Stays '72 come shine or rain![Click to View YouTube Video]IT IS FUN TO THINK ABOUT IF ONE COULD CHANGE, BUT THE LIFE THAT I SURVIVED WAS NOT FILLED WITH PAIN.
JUST MISSED BEING DRAFTED, (not sure if that was good?)
WAS FREE TO WANDER - RARELY WENT HUNGRY.
born in 'Murica!
Please!
Born into paradise on earth.....
SO IF I HAD TO PICK JUST ONE YEAR.
1976 no wait '77 or 78 or ..... No '76 was great (2nd time I climbed in the Valley)
[Click to View YouTube Video]THE WHOLE DANG THING ( wang dang doodles too)
Not at this show it would be years till I saw that ,
here is the show that that Mighty MIGHT AS WELL is from, scroll around
Smile be happy in the skin you find yourself in
[Click to View YouTube Video]The whole damn thing!
What Waste!?
and Terry we never met but I'm persona non grata with them that's "in"
It is a Cosmic thing (hey now bud! How yoo dooin'?)
so no worries - I like the cut of your clean living jib,
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Oct 25, 2016 - 10:39am PT
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That Nietzsche guy seems wound up pretty tight, making a big deal out of stuff that doesn't change the day or life in front of us. Like there's not enough problems in his life so he has to make up something to worry about? I don't get what there is to gnash teeth about.
But I guess doing this whole thing over and over without the aid of Supertopo might suck. If I judge a man, I should consider his context.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Oct 25, 2016 - 11:32am PT
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Freddy boyz aphoristic paragraph is essentially a thought experiment designed to elicit/flesh out this notion of Amor Fati where resentment is to be avoided as stultifying to self-overcoming.
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Oct 25, 2016 - 12:06pm PT
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'92 '93
Sex drugs and Grateful Dead concerts. Plus It was when I was first pushing into the harder grade IV V Yosemite routes.
Wouldn't change a thing.
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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 25, 2016 - 06:01pm PT
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Locker: Symptoms of depression???...
Probably, I started doing Wellbutrin 2 years ago this month and since then I feel a little better about life, am pissed (for no real reason) at my wife less often, but I don't care about trying to hang with friends as much. The drugs haven't turned me into a better person, but a less temperamental one.
What I was meaning by live a year over is to have the chance to experience the time over, not to make a change to a particular time in your life, although that would also be nice, I wouldn't necessarily say that I have regrets, but more that I have wasted a life so far and I doubt that I'll change. Thank god for antidepressants to keep a person from giving a sh#t about anything!
I'm looking forward to legalized weed, I've been too big a pussy to ever buy it while it's illegal. Hopefully the Feds don't come after me. I wish mushrooms were legal, I feel really out of touch with this world and the people in it, I hear that mushrooms can help with that.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Oct 25, 2016 - 11:15pm PT
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I would not, for it seems to me that a life well lived is not wasted, as long as lessons are learned from life's mistakes.
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