In that I really can't stop Father Time (Lord knows I have tried) I have decided to embrace getting older!
In truth, I am very happy as a thirty-something type. When you are younger everything is so dramatic and life-threatening. If you don't make it to that party tonight then the whole world will come crashing down and you will never ever ever get to go to another party ever again (until the next weekend, that is).
Or you are absolutely convinced that the girl you met in science class is the girl of your dreams....your soul-mate...the only one who can complete you and you will absolutely curl up and die if you can't have her (until next semester when you meet that cute redhead).
When we are young we never seem happy with ourselves, there is always the intense peer pressure to fit in, to wear the right clothes, to look a certain way, to act like everyone else. Bah!
I would much rather take my life the way I have it now. Sure there has been ups and down but now I am happy with the person I am (inside and out). I don't worry over what I can't change and I think I've developed the ability to accept what I can't change.
Trade all that for being an insecure 16 year old again? Not for me. I think the only thing I would want back is the unlimited energy youth seems to possess!