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Blog Posted:1/8/2012 1:27:00 PM
Do you think your best years are in front of you, or behind you?
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Andrea
Dietrich
Date: 1/9/2012 5:39:00 PM
I enjoyed reading all these answers to the question. I see a few of the oldies are thinking the way I have started thinking!!
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Vince
Suzadail Jr.
Date: 1/9/2012 11:15:00 AM
Mine are behind me but each day is a blessing. The memories are great and if I had to so it again, there's little I would change. Life is for living, so who knows, maybe our gratest accomplishments are still in front of us, so I enjoy every freakin' moment.
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John
Trusty
Date: 1/9/2012 9:15:00 AM
By any "measurable" criteria I've been able to think of, my best years are way behind me. At my age I've invested way more to the past than I'll ever have time for in the future. However, as I contemplate a better future; it would make me very happy to leave a smile on the face, a tear in the eye and an empty space in the heart knowing that however I've touched people, it was always good. I'd like that... JT
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Harry
Horsman
Date: 1/9/2012 8:41:00 AM
I think i'd like to use the past to shape the future. but still believe we are all part of the big script. harry
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Kabuteng P.Ink
K.
Date: 1/9/2012 8:17:00 AM
hmmm most likely it is in front of me and I haven't seen it yet? Why? Hmm could be because I am so nearsighted or something, I need my glasses....
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Andrea
Dietrich
Date: 1/9/2012 7:41:00 AM
I would like to think they are in front of me, but judging from the downward trend in the past 11 years, it gives me pause!! Something very tremendous would have to happen and include big changes in the health care and retirement system of the USA.
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Poet Destroyer
A
Date: 1/8/2012 9:24:00 PM
good question,,, they better be in front of me...lol... after all life starts and begins everyday... we are responsible for making the best out of everything...p.d.
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Linda-Marie
Sweetheart
Date: 1/8/2012 9:09:00 PM
FOREVER IN FRONT OF ME VERONICA.. EACH PHASE OF LIFE IS GROWTH.. PAST YEARS ARE EXPERIENCE.. FUTURE YEARS ARE WHAT WE MAKE THEM FROM THAT E3XPERIENCE..
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Nette
Onclaud
Date: 1/8/2012 8:36:00 PM
i feel it is always in the "NOW"; and TRAY... happy birthday to us.. i blew my 18 candles yesterday..
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Tracy
Edwards
Date: 1/8/2012 7:06:00 PM
Im the big 40 in 19 days so the best years BEST be in front of me...lol
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Carrie
Richards
Date: 1/8/2012 6:23:00 PM
I like Joe's answer!! :)
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John
Freeman
Date: 1/8/2012 5:37:00 PM
Definitely in front Veronica. Agape, Moses
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Nancy
Jones
Date: 1/8/2012 3:28:00 PM
I'm getting to the point where "best" is kinda meaningless. My life is what it is and I'm amazed that I have one. Has been and continues to be a learning experience for me. I like the parts where I feel the love is flowing, I don't like the parts where I feel hate is blowing. And I never know what I'll wake up to each day, which keeps it pretty interesting.
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David
Williams
Date: 1/8/2012 2:21:00 PM
the best is yet to come, why? because I don't know what's there!
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Sidney
Beck
Date: 1/8/2012 2:16:00 PM
surely the best years for everyone ended in 1968 with the Sgt Pepper album? Am I right or am I right?
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Joe
Flach
Date: 1/8/2012 2:12:00 PM
I am living them now. Why? Because I am living them now!
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