I depressed myself last night

So I was watching this interview with Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis lastnight,

http://trekmovie.com/2010/05/20/wat...an-frakes-pitch-their-rikers-in-space-sitcom/


Great stuff. Very funny. I then started clicking on links with the trek actors doing stuff like GMA with Charlie Gibson (Frakes still beardless and Stewart still very stuffy and british), then things like Arsino Hall's show with Patrick.

I'm 28. This is stuff from when I was maybe 11 or 12 and it depressed me to know end. I sepnt my adolescnse waiting for adulthood and now that I'm here, i would give anything to be back there. Watching those old clips from the Next Generation cast while the series was in its prime has really got me bummed out.

How are the next 60 years gonna work out?!

Badly.

I sure as fuck wouldn't. My adolescence sucked ass, for the most part. I wouldn't re-live that shit if you paid me.

Now, if you wanna set me up with a new childhood where all of my adult memories are intact and I don't have to re-live the 80's and 90's, you might have a sale.

Yeah, as much as I miss bits of my childhood no way in fuck do I wish I could do it again... in fact I'd probably kill myself and everyone I knew... or at least the fuckers who deserved it!

Would I go back to the 70's and be 7-17? not a chance unless I could know then what i know now.

Would I go back and be roughly that age now? Oh hell yeah. I could at least have a shot at seizing the chance I missed then.

Oh, and re the OP, Frakes hasn't been beardless in Trek since 1988 - so you were younger than you think when that was happening.

Thanks Nova, thanks , makes me feeel even older. Yeah, i guess i didnt express my self clearly, i would only like to be young again if i could retain the knowledge i have now.

Not entirely true. He shaved his beard in Insurrection, though I can understand if you repressed your memories of that movie.

I always find it funny when people who could be my kids complain about being old. I don't feel at all old.

Then again, maybe it's just senility setting in...

It's the pressure of knowing that things don't get easier that the responsibilties of family, fatherhood etc seem daunting (though rewarding) compared to the days when we cuold watch cartoons in our pajamas all summer long.

My body feels old, but my mind feels... well, mostly annoyed.

“Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”
– Samuel Ullman

If you're not feeling annoyed then you're either dead, brain damaged, or hooked up with some really good drugs.

Fixed!

well i always do that, that's nothing new

In my mind, I'm still 16.

So..., since I've considered that I might, at some point in the future, start dating again, I've looked at a few websites - just to see what's out there.

It has occurred to me why divorced 40+ year old men date women half their age...

not quite to that point...

Bear's right. This is your big chance to be a cougar.

I've only just come around to the idea of dating. Sex is ... a little further down the road.

When you do decide to have sex, I strongly encourage you to swallow.

It's important!

Are you kidding? With all my experience with cybersex here and at trekbbs, I could put a real man in the hospital!