youth versus experience

[Dark Knight]

prompted by a song I was listening to:

A wasted youth is better by far ,than a wise and produtive old age ?

discuss

[david63]

But are not both possible?

[oldbluefox]

Who picks up the tab for wasted youth?

I get rather annoyed by celebrity sportsmen, recording artists, etc who proudly proclaim how they bunked off school and put two fingers up to society and hey presto!!, look at them now languishing in untold wealth. Are these the role models we want for our young people who take their lifestyle to heart, copy what their idols did and find everything later drops apart, invariably because what they did not reveal was there was a wealthy daddy in the background with the money and the contacts to ensure their dear child had other options later on in life.

[Quizzical Bob]

'Si jeunesse savait, Si vieillesse pouvait'
I always say.

[Not so ancient mariner]

'Si jeunesse savait, Si vieillesse pouvait'
I always say.

Exactement. Le bonheur est de savoir comment tandis que vous pouvez encore

[towny44]

I do like the alternative translation though, "get it while you're young, baby!"

[qbman1]

prompted by a song I was listening to:

A wasted youth is better by far ,than a wise and produtive old age ?

discuss

Shouldn't you be working, rather than listening to Meatloaf ?

[Dark Knight]

I was in the car, so it counts

[Stephen]

I do like the alternative translation though, "get it while you're young, baby!"

The problem is knowing where to find it

[qbman1]

I do like the alternative translation though, "get it while you're young, baby!"

The problem is knowing where to find it

....and what to do with it !

[Dark Knight]

see a wasted youth is much more fun than being old

[Frank Manning]

It proves the saying, 'I wish I had known then, what I know now'.

If I had known in my youth, what I know now, I would have had an even better time than I did. I definitely wasted my youth.

[oldbluefox]

Too true Frank. I think we were fed some duff information!!!

[Not so ancient mariner]

It proves the saying, 'I wish I had known then, what I know now'.

If I had known in my youth, what I know now, I would have had an even better time than I did. I definitely wasted my youth.

You could have made a mint at the bookies too!!