I watched this movie, The age of Adeline. A good movie, by the way. Good escapism. Anyway, the main character gets stuck in her youth. Through this, she is able to live for many years at the same age. She uses her time to gain knowledge which increases her quality of life. By the middle of the movie she can read braille, beat anyone at trivial pursuit, and speak many languages.
We can’t live forever, but if you could live 100 years at any age, what age would you most want to be stuck at? I choose 35 years old. I choose this age because I felt like I had gained some wisdom credits by 35, but I had not yet begun to endure the signs and effects that come along with aging. So I could do anything, go anywhere and enjoy being 35 for 100 years, which is about how long Adeline lived before her condition was reversed.
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18 responses to “If you could be stuck at any age for 100 years, what age would you choose?”
If the escapism fantasy was limited to current social models, I would opt for a decade younger than you chose: at the peak of physical strength and enjoying the full freedoms of an adult, but still in touch with the optimism, vigor, and idealism of Youth.
Any younger than this, would require a Neverland for Pan to play in free from the restrictions adults love to place on children!
@griz mid twenties was nice, too, but I donta want to put my body at risk for pregnancy again and again. This is insightful, though.
Now let me ask you this. What if you had to come back as a member of an oppressed group? What group would you choose?
@Scarlett
They all hold the promise of similar lessons and wisdom to be gained. Lessons that “dominant groups” never have to walk out.
But I think I would choose a Native Canadian: swayed heavily by my already having knowledge and awareness of the Canadian experience and of the various Native groups within that experience.
I already have practiced some of their spiritual beliefs and know their effectiveness at pointing to the same good spiritual starting-point I’ve already found.
So even if in “coming back” I would lose all wisdom gained thus far . . . I know it would be a good path to gain it back again.
Probably at 21, with the knowledge I have now.
@Jear77 ohhh that would be nice to have the knowledge but grace, vigor, and energy still be a part
I think about 45. I was kind of established in my ways and went middle age crazy. To me, that meant stretching and looking for more, finding it and then having a better frame of reference in which to continue with a stable pattern of personal growth.
It was an exciting time of change and I would want to couple my experience pre 45 with the excitement of constant risk/reward to keep the next 100 years as far away from complacency as possible.
@spitfire3dc this is interesting to me because I am 46 years old now. I know what you are talking about. You are talking about mid-life development. It’s why I changed cities, why I started grad school, took dancing lessons, went to therapy etc. it is definitely a time of enormous growth for those who choose to complete this stage of development. Maybe in ten years I will look back and choose 45, but now the fatigue is getting to me. I definitely notice me aging.
Are you completely satisfied with how you navigated that stage of your life?
@Scarlett Yes. I am satisfied. I made mistakes and I learned from them.
I am only as good as the failures I have overcome.
33 was a good year for me. I came into my strong self at that age and loved my new life.
Of course, I would want my life to progress as it did and right now I could be my 33 year old self and still get to meet and be with my ideal partner — Immortal Pirate. I would run circles around him !!!! He would think of me as the 99 Lb. Elf!!!
@ladybarbara I love this.i bet you were a beauty at 33 as you are now!
@Scarlett My soon-to-be-ex was 51 and traded me in for a 22 year old that was not interested in working outside the house, or going to college. Just what he wanted — a woman who could do the job of a blow-up doll and do housework, too. He divorced me because I was “Getting too old” . —- I took off like a jet and entered a good factory job, working my way up to Quality Management and started college in Quality Technologies and Business Management. Nothing could hold me back after that.
I would choose 33 like Barb. I like the number “3” and I like my 30’s, so it seems fitting.
I didn’t know that you moved and went back to school. Good for you.
25
that was my prime drinking age
miss those days (a little)
Probably the age I am now, 26. I’m not sure when my body will start failing me, so I wouldn’t want to risk it and live 100 years with a breaking body. I’d be good with 18 as well if I could have the knowledge I have now. I know it isn’t much of an age difference, but I just feel I was probably in better shape then. But I was also highly gullible at that age, so maybe not actually… Oh well. 26 it is. Final answer.
100 years…ha ha ha. A day in the life, a walk in the park…been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
im thinking about 28. not that it was such a great time in my life, in fact it was not so much, but dang the energy i had at 28 :D
I wanna be around 10 or 12 again, with the energy and enthusiasm I had back then, and the friends I used to hang out with in Romania, hiking in the mountains and forests… but with the wisdom I have now… and without the child abuse and the newly sick, crazy father. It’s just that I made so many mistakes out of ignorance when I was that age that could have been avoided if only someone bothered to teach me how to be nice to others and look out for me.
But I think a lot of my life back then was taken up by the abuse and I couldn’t focus on much else, and my Mom was too focused on my Dad to pay much attention to me.
Maybe that’s why I kinda want to go back. Just to fix things.
I think I’d be alright with the current of 31 for a hundred years.