"When I was seventeen, we drank some very good beer. That I bought with a fake I.D. my name was Brian McGee. When I was seventeen..."
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I remember being 17
- Thread starter mellowinman
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Someone we know just relapsed on heroin, OD'd and has been in a coma for 5 weeks now. Bright, good looking young man.
You said it Erebus, not everyone is so lucky. Most aren't.
When I was 17, I was a senior in high school, played in a working band for decent money, worked 2 other jobs, paid my own bills, bought my first car, and had a hot girlfriend. Life was great!
slobake
resident ... something
Great OP Mellowinman. I was 17 in 1969, I had just given up being an introverted loner jock and was making new friends because of certain extra-curricular activity. I was reading Kerouac, Adulous Huxley, Camus and Siddhartha. That was the year of Woodstock and Altamont. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy had been assinated the year before. We also had the infamous Chicago Democratic National convention in 1968. In 1969 Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Mothers of Invention were rocking my world. Tens of thousands of people were marching in the streets to end the war and yes we really did believe we were going to change the world for the better. This song sums up what a lot of us believed at that time:
Now at 60-years old I sometime thing we missed our opportunity. But then I realize that the same opportunities still exist. In fact because I am a little more adjusted and mature I am better equipped to be part of change for the better. "We can be together" or as John Lennon said "You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
Now at 60-years old I sometime thing we missed our opportunity. But then I realize that the same opportunities still exist. In fact because I am a little more adjusted and mature I am better equipped to be part of change for the better. "We can be together" or as John Lennon said "You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
+10000
when i was 17 i was running around with my gf and my band getting into trouble. now im 29 and running around with my wife and my band and getting in trouble. i actually do more drugs now than i did when i was 17 . . . LIFE IS GOOD!
I'm almost 60 and turned 17 in 1970. I have mixed feelings about where I was at that time in my life. For a great number of reasons that are too lenghty to explain, I was terribly shy and was very afraid of a lot of things. I wish more than anything that the present day 'me' could go back and talk to the 'me' of then. I'd tell him "trust me, the one's with the biggest mouths are the one's who are most afraid. The one's who come across with the most bravado, the control freaks....those are the one's who are scared to the core." It took me years to realize this and had I realized this sooner I think I would have made much better choices in life because I would have believed in myself instead of crumbling to the will of others. Think what you want of me, but you'd have to take a long walk in my shoes in order to understand that.
But in it's own way 'now' is a good place due to what I've learned thru the years. It's not perfect, but it's better for me then back then by a long shot.
But in it's own way 'now' is a good place due to what I've learned thru the years. It's not perfect, but it's better for me then back then by a long shot.
Somewhere around 30 to 35. But I also developed arthritis around then which didn't help anything.
Cripes, I used to win Mt. bike races, climb mountains, ski fast, and all sorts of fun stuff back then.
I know I had fun though 
But the topic here is 17.
30 years ago there were no US wars going on to worry about. Gas was cheap. Global warming wasn't a concern. Overall, things were going along swimmingly in this country.
I played bass in a heavy metal band and practiced a lot. I had a huge Peavey rig and was strong enough to actually move it. Since gas was so cheap, my friends and I used to race our trucks around on the local logging roads. Growing up in a small town, I used to fish and hunt a lot and would be considered a something of a hick nowadays.
I didn't do weed, but I did drink a lot back then. I recall having a taste for McNaughton's Canadian whiskey. Fortunately had the good sense to not drive while drunk.
Now I've gotten old and incredibly boring. I mean, I don't do anything anymore that could make for even a half-interesting story.
30 years ago there were no US wars going on to worry about. Gas was cheap. Global warming wasn't a concern. Overall, things were going along swimmingly in this country.
I played bass in a heavy metal band and practiced a lot. I had a huge Peavey rig and was strong enough to actually move it. Since gas was so cheap, my friends and I used to race our trucks around on the local logging roads. Growing up in a small town, I used to fish and hunt a lot and would be considered a something of a hick nowadays.
I didn't do weed, but I did drink a lot back then. I recall having a taste for McNaughton's Canadian whiskey. Fortunately had the good sense to not drive while drunk.
Now I've gotten old and incredibly boring. I mean, I don't do anything anymore that could make for even a half-interesting story.
slobake
resident ... something
+1. The only thing I'd want from back then is my athleticism. I'm in good shape now at 50, but nothing like I was at 17. I do miss the feeling of running fast and jumping high without fear of straining something. Overall, though - 50 trumps 17.
