[ SECRET POST #1892 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1892 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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03.
[White Collar]


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04.
[Smash]


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05.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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06.
[Revenge]


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07.
[The Hunger Games]


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08.
[Yu-Gi-Oh]


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09.
[White Collar]


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10.
[Obscurus Lupa, Subspecies]


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11.
[Castleville]


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12.
[Gintama]


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13.
[The Cat Returns]


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14.
[Mythbusters]


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15.
[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]


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16.
[Titanic]


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17.
[All Dogs go to Heaven]


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18.
[Hatoful Boyfriend]


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19.
[Pokemon]


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20.
[Phantom of the Opera]


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21.
[The Middle]


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22.
[life on mars]


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23.
[Scrubs]


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24.
[A Goofy Movie]


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25.
[Nerimon/Alex Day]


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26.
[Katie McGrath]


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27.
[Chuck]


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28.
[Top Chef Season 9]


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29.
[The Vampire Diaries]


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30.
[The Vampire Diaries]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #270.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

02. http://i.imgur.com/igBCz.jpg
[How I Met Your Mother]

[kindlycoyote.livejournal.com]

Hah, I know. I remember right after college when I got the realization that 'holy shit, I have roughly 60 years to be legendary!'

I think when you are young you are always going to be a little bit silly about time. At least I was.

[intrigueing.livejournal.com]

When I turned twenty I had the exact same reaction. "Well, I'm frickin' twenty, the age I've been dreading since I was eight, and yet I don't feel old! Damn, I'm gonna have a blast with this life!"

[(Anonymous)]

I've pretty much felt like my life is over since I turned 30 (which was not recently). This may have been because I farted my 20s away. So I sure hope this decade is legendary.

[(Anonymous)]

My 20's were utter crap. I am gonna rock my 30's so hard starting this summer when I actually turn 30. The decade will be legendary if you make it so :D

I've decided my life started last summer when I threw caution into the wind, racked up amazing debt and had a fabulous 6 week trip to Europe.

[flutingfrenzy.livejournal.com]

I am twenty-eight, and life is just now getting good.

[hunterwithcause.livejournal.com]

Is that a typo in your secret or are you really feeling that the best years of your life are before you turn twenty? Because, wow. Why? While I liked my childhood and teenager years well enough, I would never go back. Too much parental supervision and influence, IMO.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Lots of people are told by adults with incredibly rosy glasses that teenagers are in the "best years of their lives." I don't know if it's looking back on the days they probably didn't have to work and they're now stuck in a shitty job, or maybe it's TV clouding their memory, or what, but seriously that line is a cliche. Oh and I suppose there *are* people who really *did* peak in high school (their successes, their friendships, etc) and they live out the rest of their lives looking back on their high school successes, which is kinda sad. Not that people need to have shitty high school lives to be happy and/or successful as adults - the important word is "peak" (as in "all downhill from here") and not "enjoy" or "succeed." (Because that's another cliche too, that people who are popular and happy in high school are failures later in life and the outcast nerds inherit the earth or something.)

[(Anonymous)]

Who the hell has been telling you that the best years of your life happen before you're 20? I've heard college years or married years before kids, but never teenage years.

[kikkyo.livejournal.com]

LOL! I've heard it a few times back when I was a kid but I'm more like you, thinking it just doesn't make sense! Wtf... there's so much life to live once you're out from under your parents.

[(Anonymous)]

Srsly. If you're lucky enough to have a decently average childhood they're not bad years, but there's so much more life to be had out from under your parents' thumbs.

[elialshadowpine]

You haven't heard that about high school? I'd heard it fairly commonly, although thinking about it, mostly from older people. It was said frequently enough at one point that it was a trigger for one of my exes, who had been bullied and abused in high school and admonished by his friends and family that he should shut up and enjoy it because these would "be the best years of his life." Fucking whacked.

[amethyst-rei.livejournal.com]

I FEEL YOU, OP.

I just turned 20 a few months ago and I already feel like I'm headed for the coffin. I feel like my golden years are over (despite them not being all that golden to begin with) and look forward with utter dread. Most people wait until they're, like, 30 to start lying about their age. I've been detracting years since I turned 19. >.<"

I know it's stupid to feel this way, but I can't quite put it to rest. I'm going to be 21 next year and I dread it something fierce.

Stupid Rei is stupid.

[barnabys-bane.livejournal.com]

I don't get why people freak out over turning x age. I don't know that I ever really cared. Is it a fear of death sort of thing? I don't know. Maybe it's just me.

[cloud-riven.livejournal.com]

You sound like a teenag—
oh

At least you're looking forward to living. That's good.

[(Anonymous)]

aw man I wish I had your mentality. I'm going to be 28 in a couple months and I think I'm having a mid-life crisis over it.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

So...how did you think that was going to work? I mean, what did you think was golden about being in school that would shrivel up and die when you were 30?

[childings.livejournal.com]

The whole fuss over turning thirty came about a long time ago when the life expectancy wasn't what it is today, so 30 was pretty much the mid-point of your life. Hence the term "midlife crisis". Now that people live longer and usually die in their 80s, turning thirty isn't really that big of a deal anymore.

I'm going to be 29 in a few months and honestly I'm not too worried about turning 30. I kind of really freaked out when I turned 28, because I realized my 20s were almost over and that meant I wasn't going to technically be a "young person" for much longer, and that I couldn't really spend my life perpetually partying and avoiding responsibility (also I realized that I was starting to show physical signs of age) but I got over it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm turning 28 this month. I really just...it bothers me more than it should.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I fail at life?

/is really looking forward to turning forty or fifty

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you really get over aging until you're like past 60 when it's all just "fuck it, I'm too old for this shit" kinda deal. When I was in my late teens I freaked out I hadn't had my shit together and knew what career I wanted. In my early 20s I realized I was being stupid and I'm still young with plenty of time. Mid 20s seems to be the same, but on approaching late 20s you get that feeling again of, "Ack! I'm aging!" I think it'll be like this upon approaching and surpassing every milestone birthday thb.

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect that nearly everyone feels this way when they're as young as you are, Anon. When I was in high school, I thought 25 was ancient and I might as well just fall over dead from my own decrepitude. I'm not exaggerating in the slightest.

I am 35. The older I get, the more I realize that life begins at [insert current age here]. You could not pay me to be a teenager again! Every decade is only as good as you make it, but here's the thing-- it can be really, really good.

Forget arbitrary deadlines for your life being "over", they only exist in peoples' heads.

[(Anonymous)]

20 seems old to you? -_- Seriously? Man my teen years mostly sucked. I thought your 20's was supposed to be the "best time of your life?"

But in any case, glad that you got something positive out of HIMYM. :) And there's no reason why you should feel like there's some expiration date on fun.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

I feel this way about careers. I always remind myself that Morgan Freeman got into acting in his sixties, and Alan Rickman left his successful design firm to go into acting and had a really hard time of it for years until Die Hard. But most of the stories I've always heard were things like "well I've been in acting classes since I was three, I always wanted to be an actor, I was in plays all through my school years and got my degree in theater." (I use acting as an example because it's a hard profession to break into and there are famous examples of people who succeeded - I don't know examples of, say, people who decided to open up a restaurant late in life or who decided to abandon marketing for accounting or something.)
I've been raised on this terrifying idea that you're supposed to know what you want to do for the rest of your life when you're twenty, and you should have been working on it since high school or college at the latest. People switch careers late in life all the time and it's never too late to get trained, but so many people act like starting a career as an older person is a fool's game because what you're *supposed* to do is get in on the ground floor at 20 and then work your way up the ladder for your whole life and reap the benefits of life-long employment.

Life is never over until it's over, and most people who say that high school is the best years of your life are full of shit.

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

Young people can never see past the ends of their own noses and they think 30 is "soooo olllld". I did when I was young, and pretty much everyone I knew felt the same way. But the thing is, life is what you make it, and you can have a fabulous life no matter what age you are. People don't stop being valid at a certain age. You learn that as you get older, and it's great.