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[the__tall__guy]

A couple of years ago I was reading an interview with Ian McKellan (Gandalf, Magneto) about the "best years of your life". He said that a lot of people think there is a gradual decline of good times as you get older. He basically went on to state that this mindset is very naive, and that while it may be true for some people, it isn't true for

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[meg4754]

you know i always love your updates & i wish i would have checked LJ before i posted on your facebook.

have you ever finished your 101 in 1001?

[the__tall__guy]

not yet, I guess I need to do that

[outwiththenew]

Yeah, it's all numbers and statistics. They're just putting it alongside how they determine the chances of car and plane wrecks. There's just too many different variables, like how people see things, pretty much like you were saying

College was hell!

[thegooseisloose]

On the other hand, I was not an optimist, I was a realist. AND I was trying for a degree in biology while taking 3 inflected languages and one that wasn't in our language family. so I guess I brought that upon myself. BUT I can certainly say that things have gotten better since I skipped the state line. I for one look forward to much better days in the future. I figure that if I live to retirement I will have neglected to take some risk along the way. Then again I'm not planning on having a wife or kids so I don't have to take their feelings into account. When you're self-centered you can do things like that :-)

--Goose!

[outwiththenew]

I wanted to further note that this reminded me of an exploratory essay.