What was your best decade?

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What was the best decade of your life?

Everyone always says it's their 20's, but I think this is probably due to a large amount of idealising 'freedom' during whilst trapped in the constraints of being middle-aged. It would be nice to hear some different answers.

I obviously have to say my 20's since it's the only decade I remember.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

lucky, i barely remember my 20's

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@djjd62,

My 40's were pretty damn awesome.

You couldn't pay me to go through the navel-gazing teens and twenties again.

As I look at friends and family - the 60's and 70's definitely seem to be something to look forward to.

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It's always the one I'm in.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

The Pentacle Queen wrote:

What was the best decade of your life?

I'd have to say 26-35. Full of interesting work, low on corporate bullshit. But I hopefully have a couple more decades left, and I'm working on their awesomness.

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Definitely NOT the 20s.

The 30s, 40s and 50s (so far) have been MUCH better. Hard to choose. I'm looking forward to the 60s. I think it may be the best of all.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

The Pentacle Queen wrote:

whilst trapped in the constraints of being middle-aged

I find this bit quite funny.

Life gets much freer as you get older. A lot less interest in what other people are thinking and doing and valuing.

I don't give a flying F about what makes other people twitchy now.

I'm a LOT less self-conscious now than I was 10//20/30/40 years ago. Perhaps 50 years ago, I was this unself-conscious.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

This past decade (the 30's) have been alternately the best and the toughest of my personal life.

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@ehBeth,

I find my current self to be a lot like the 1o year old me. but with skills.

I hate to think any of my previous decades were "best".

mebbe the next one...

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@Rockhead,

You're refusing to play favorites Rockhead? Every parent has a favorite child ergo everyone should have a favorite decade.

Razz

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@tsarstepan,

that's one reason I decided against having children.

I hope to have a favorite decade soon.

bad things keep happening to firk them up.

Ima start by trying to have good days...

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@The Pentacle Queen,

My 20s sucked. So far my 60s are the best...found my true love, financial security, and working with infants and toddlers.

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There was something tough going on for a part of each decade except for my first; that would win, then, except that with each passing set of years I appreciate more and more. Overall best would be my forties and fifties. So far..

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

The Pentacle Queen wrote:
whilst trapped in the constraints of being middle-aged

I find this bit quite funny.

Life gets much freer as you get older. A lot less interest in what other people are thinking and doing and valuing.

I don't give a flying F about what makes other people twitchy now.

I'm a LOT less self-conscious now than I was 10//20/30/40 years ago. Perhaps 50 years ago, I was this unself-conscious.

No I was thinking more along the lines of having built up a solid life-network which you can't change very easily. Can't just **** off to another country etc.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

The Pentacle Queen wrote:

No I was thinking more along the lines of having built up a solid life-network which you can't change very easily. Can't just **** off to another country etc.

sure you can - I pretty much told everyone to F off and moved 2000 k away on my 35th

I think you overestimate youth and underestimate the freedom gained each year

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@The Pentacle Queen,

The Pentacle Queen wrote:

No I was thinking more along the lines of having built up a solid life-network which you can't change very easily. Can't just **** off to another country etc.

Kind of a naive statement that you assume that everyone has or will have a family and a social network by a certain age. Or a thriving career as well....

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@tsarstepan,

Well I don't want to depress myself too much, do I? Most people do.

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Probably the first 10 years after I'm dead. That will be my first truly peaceful decade.

Rap

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@The Pentacle Queen,

well, who wants to be most people

certainly not me

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@The Pentacle Queen,

The Pentacle Queen wrote:

No I was thinking more along the lines of having built up a solid life-network which you can't change very easily. Can't just **** off to another country etc.

Of course you can! I did move to another country (USA) from Germany
when I was about your age. You don't lose your network back home, you
just add to it throughout life. When I first came to the U.S. I lived in New York, now I live in California - another 3000 miles difference. I found
Americans to be very mobile and flexible when it comes to moving to different parts of the U.S. and everywhere they go they seem to establish themselves again.

My best decade? Every one of them actually, but the most carefree one
was probably from 1 to 10, the most exciting from 10 - 20, the most life
changing one from 20 - 30, the most courageous from 30 - 40 and the
most content from 40 up to now....

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