abaya

Or you could just type the phrase into Google, which is what I did to find the whole quote, and it takes about 5 seconds.
Well, sure, a case can be made for that. But why this dichotomy between "drinking/drugging like mad" and always being safe, never doing anything risky, basically sitting around doing nothing? I mean... most people go through their youth somewhere in between those extremes, no?

Personally, I waited till I was 21 to drink, then had a year of exploratory drinking, then a year of fairly hard partying, and ever since then I've been pretty much moderate... beer or two during the week, bottle of wine on Friday night with my husband, etc. Traveled as much as possible, backpacked, visited lots of countries, a habit which I intend to keep up for life. Got several degrees. Did not sleep around, did not do anything crazy really... but for me, the greater waste would have been to not take any risks and to stay on the straight & narrow (which is what my faith called for, when I had it, in my early 20s). For example, it was just not in my personality, I discovered, to remain a virgin until marriage. I ended up marrying the 2nd person that I had sex with. Go figure. I think I managed to walk the gray line between black and white in my "youth" (which I intend to make last as far into my 30s, 40s, etc as possible), and for me, that meant that I was not wasting it... in fact, I was making the most of it. Still am.

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Derwood

i hear ya. if you can party like a rock star and still maintain a real life (ie job, your own home, etc.) then go for it. getting wasted 5 days a week while working at Starbucks and living with your mom is wasting your life

ASU2003

I didn't do some of the things I should have. Or a lot of the things I wish I could have done. In a perfect world I would have been able to backpack through Europe for at least 6 months in between high school and college. I should have also worked for 6 months before college. (I did have some jobs at the same time as I was going to school, but only having your job to focus on was a pretty big change at 24). And having some money while in college would have made things a little easier.

So, while I would go back and change a few things if I could, I don't think I really wasted it. I did waste a bunch of opportunities for relationships that I should have gotten in and experienced at the time.

Derwood

i never touched a fake boob

Manic_Skafe

I waste it from 10-6, monday through friday.

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Mephex

I waste what I don't know I have. I only realize what I had once I've wasted it. It's been that way since I was a teenager. Funny the way that works. I have many moments where I wonder where I'd be had I followed through with school and lived up to my true potential. I still work my 9-5, am recognized for my efforts at the workplace, and continue to get blasted every night. I guess it keeps me on everyone else's level... ?

I really don't think I wasted my youth, obviously, I've learned a few things since then.

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-Samuel Adams

Datalife2

Personality changes go on untill you're about 30. Then you are mature enough to know who you are and know yourself. The world is changing so fast so it may take even longer to get to know yourself as time goes on.

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christian007

I would say stay single, stay in school get a good degree, get laid alot, wear a condem LOL, dont get anyone pregnant, and focus on yourself and dont get married cause the statistics on getting married at a young age is surely to get a divorce many people get divorced around 31-34 so all there 20's are wasted in my opinion and then people that are around that age say man I should have stayed single cause one of there spouses cheated on one another what a deush bag I always say LOL

telekinetic

Cold and hard. Better to look at than touch.

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Seer666

Well, I got wasted a lot in my youth, but wasted it? I wouldn't say. Yes, there are some things I would do different. Like stay in school. I dropped out in 10th grade. Maybe have done a few less drugs. But all in all, I enjoyed the hell out of my youth. I made a few good friends, some still with me to this day, had a lot of adventures, the legality of some of them very questionable, learned what it meant to really love someone, and generally lived life my way, no matter what anyone said or thought about it. There are a lot of parts of it I try very, very hard to forget, or at least pretend never happened, but all in all, I'd say it was a good youth. Or at least, it's helped shape the bitter bastard that I am, and I'm pretty comfortable with that.

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serlindsipity

i am in my youth and i keep asking myself that.

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