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If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
Orcus Posted Aug 19, 2003
possibly but certainly irritating.
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
Hellycub Posted Aug 19, 2003
Oh I'd definitely choose the 60's - I'm a revolutionary at heart! I loved being 15, it was all about the flirting and the staying out too late, and the first time you fall in love!
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
Stephen Posted Aug 19, 2003
Right now!
Im getting old enough to start to creak: I could do with both the youthful body and all the opportunities that are around these days and are getting better all the time.
If I could keep my present experience and knowledge - such as it is - so much the better but even so....
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Aug 19, 2003
>> Right now! <<
Yes!
Having thought it over for a few days, the great advantages one has at 15 (youth, strength, self centered attitude) should not be wasted on trying to relive any part of the much loved past but dedicated to the unknown future yet to be.
I would happily become 15 tomorrow and watch in wonder as the future unfolded, just as awe-struck and gob-smacked at the unexpected and unlikely turn of events I have been observing for the past 40 odd years since I lost my innocence the first time.
Just for the record, 15 would have been a couple years too young for bearing the full weight of all the weirdness 1967. I saw a lot of 15 year olds crumple and fall and go astray in 1967 trying to keep up. There were a lot of predators, bad drugs, delusions and lost causes. I was 21, still young enough to enjoy it and old enough to survive it.
~jwf~ 60s survivor
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Aug 19, 2003
>> I was 21, still young enough to enjoy it and old enough to survive it. <<
And yes the reverse is equally true, at 21 I was old enough to enjoy it and young enough to survive it.
Which brings me back to the intent of tonsil's original question. I have observed that 21 is a better age for anything, anytime, anywhere. So, on the understanding that I would go as '21' rather than '15', then I would join Shakespeare's troupe, the plague be damned! All of you 21st century types would have been obliged to memorise at least one of my poems at school and I wouldn't have had to live thru the 60s again. Though I suspect the Reformation wars would have done me in for trying to keep the theatres alive after Elizabeth. 
~jwf~
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
Tonsil Revenge (PG) Posted Aug 19, 2003
We could always find something nasty to give you a bit of a turn today...
I picked fifteen for a very personal reason which I am not going to tell you.
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Aug 19, 2003
Who was she? 
jwf
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
BouncyBitInTheMiddle Posted Aug 19, 2003
What a scary proposition.
See the advantage I have over you people is that I remember being 15 very very clearly what with it being only 2 years ago.
So I know exactly how much I don't want to be 15 again, mainly cos it was crap, and I wasted that year (and most of the years before, and definitely the one after it).
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
chickadee (wheee!) Posted Aug 19, 2003
me too, to almost all of the above! fifteen was ... awful, though i didn't really realize that at the time. glad i'm past that, i can laugh at myself again! i guess it wouldn't be so bad to go back if i could take all my experience with me, but it would suck ot have to hang out with all those other fifteen-year-olds, other people were the worst part of that year.
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
Tonsil Revenge (PG) Posted Aug 20, 2003
Ah, but being forty-one now, imagine what I could do with a fifteen year old body!
The prospect of running away was always attractive to me.
If you could be fifteen again, what year would you choose?
creachy Posted Aug 20, 2003
1989 - the release of 'Bleach' by Nirvana and a whole new era of music begins to have been 15 then (i was 8) would mean i could catch the vibe and buzz and be on the crest of the grunge wave.
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