A terrible fact of life.

[LuckyCharms]

Is spending your entire life developing your skills in a trade for example, or skills in anything really, and when you finally reach a point where your confidence level is good, and your skills are honed, and you have taught yourself much of what you need to know about that particular skill...when you finally reach that point...you're too old to do anything.

[Jeebo]

1. "Youth is wasted on the young."

That's what that saying means. When you're young enough to possess youth, you're still trying to figure life out and you're too inexperienced to know what to do with your youth. I'm 70 years old and I sure wish I could be 25 again, knowing everything I know now.

-- Ron

[LuckyCharms]

2. Thank you. I've never really thought about the meaning

of that saying.

Another thing I think about quite a bit...when I was young, I was shy and although I didn't have too much trouble talking to people, I would not join conversations like other people my age. Now, I can talk to people like I'm the mayor.

It's a confidence thing...when you really finally gain your confidence, you're old.

[dweller]

3. so, does this mean that belly dancing gig is a bust ?

sad...
🙁

✌🏼

[LuckyCharms]

5. No! Belly dancing is a NEW skill for me.

[NNadir]

4. I was just telling someone yesterday about a remark from Nobel Laureate Donald Cram...

...who said that only when you have finished a project do you realize how you should have started it.

It's not the end; it's the process.

Life is beautiful, and then you die.

[Newest Reality]

8. You were supposed to dance ;)

[Blue Owl]

9. Or some blithering idiot in the White House destroys the economy

And causes your industry/job to dry up and disappear.

ESAD, Donny!