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September 10, 2013 1:44 am at 1:44 am #610558eclipseMember
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September 10, 2013 2:05 am at 2:05 am #1023323WolfishMusingsParticipantAn innocuous one…
When I was younger, I thought a Kohen or Levi could be called up for any aliya after the first seven. Now I know that it’s only Acharon and Maftir.
The Wolf
September 10, 2013 2:42 am at 2:42 am #1023324🍫Syag LchochmaParticipantwhen I was younger I thought that if people knew they were wrong they would change. Now I realize that I was an idiot when I was younger.
September 10, 2013 3:34 am at 3:34 am #1023326Bookworm120ParticipantSeptember 10, 2013 3:46 am at 3:46 am #1023327Burnt SteakParticipantWhen I was younger I thought top 40 music was awesome. Now I realize that it was the 90s/early 2000s music that was awesome.
September 10, 2013 4:08 am at 4:08 am #1023328EnderParticipantWhen I was younger I thought I was amazing in every way. Now I realize that I was “spot on.” (The quotation marks are for you, eclipse)
September 10, 2013 10:54 am at 10:54 am #1023329notasheepMemberWhen I was younger I thought that serial dramas were based on books. Now I realise that there is somebody bored enough to be able to think of new episodes for a serial that has been running for several decades.
September 10, 2013 1:48 pm at 1:48 pm #1023330miritchkaMemberWhen i was younger i thought the money you earn through work was yours to spend. Now i realize that the money you earn through work is yours and everyone else’s who doesnt work.
September 10, 2013 4:07 pm at 4:07 pm #1023331WIYMemberMiritchka
Ha.
September 10, 2013 7:36 pm at 7:36 pm #1023332oomisParticipantWhen I was young, I thought my parents hung the moon.
Now that I am older, I realize that as far as I am concerned, I was right.
September 10, 2013 8:57 pm at 8:57 pm #1023333Torah613TorahParticipantI thought the sun set behind my neighbor’s house, and was very proud to live nearby.
September 11, 2013 3:18 am at 3:18 am #1023334squeakParticipantNo, son, the sun sets in Arizona, near Falstaff. Thats why the rocks there are so red.
September 11, 2013 3:39 am at 3:39 am #1023335popa_bar_abbaParticipantWhen I was young I thought I was the smartest person alive. Now I realize there was someone smarter alive then.
But he’s dead now.
September 11, 2013 5:55 am at 5:55 am #1023336WIYMemberYou mean the young you was smarter than the older you?
September 11, 2013 8:45 am at 8:45 am #1023337notasheepMemberPBA – brilliant!
September 11, 2013 11:51 am at 11:51 am #1023338eclipseMemberHad to visit the CR one more time before yom tov….When I was younger, I didn’t always think I was especially pretty (few teens do!), now that I’m almost 100 years old, I think:what a pity to realize you lookED good, only AFTER you don’t look like that anymore! But middle age does come with a sort of content countenance and its own glow…I think. I hope? Grasping at straws here:)
September 11, 2013 11:52 am at 11:52 am #1023339eclipseMemberBy the way, what year DOES middle age officially start ANYway?
September 11, 2013 2:55 pm at 2:55 pm #1023340jewishfeminist02MemberForty.
September 11, 2013 4:01 pm at 4:01 pm #1023341WolfishMusingsParticipantOne of my favorite quotes. Also one of my son’s favorites, now that he’s twenty.
The Wolf
September 11, 2013 4:08 pm at 4:08 pm #1023342ilovetorahParticipantThis is a pretty famous mussar/hashkafa saying. From one of the gedoilei oilam (r’ chain volozhin? R’ yisroel salanter?)
” I used to think I can change the world which will better my country, which will better my state which will better my city, which will better my neighborhood, which will better my family, which will better myself. NOW I realize that I first have to change myself, which will better my family, which will better my neighborhood, which will better my city, which will better my state, which will better my country, which will better the world.”
September 11, 2013 4:09 pm at 4:09 pm #1023343ilovetorahParticipantAnd that saying obviously doesn’t need my haskama but its clearly evident to any thinking person how true it is. We all need to work to change ourselves before trying to change others.
September 11, 2013 10:50 pm at 10:50 pm #1023344whatdoiknow99MemberWhen I was young I thought I was the smartest person alive. Now I realize there was someone smarter alive then.
But he’s dead now.
Explain please
September 11, 2013 10:53 pm at 10:53 pm #1023345whatdoiknow99MemberWhen I was younger, adults did and said things in front of me that they assumed was fine because I wouldn’t understand. Now that I’m older I still remember some of those things and I do understand. They would be mighty embarrassed if they knew.
September 11, 2013 11:42 pm at 11:42 pm #1023346yaff80ParticipantAs a teenager I was concerned about what others thought of me, only doing things that portrayed a good image (peer pressure).
In my 20s I decided I couldn’t care what others think of me – I will do my own thing.
Now I realise nobody isn’t/wasn’t even thinking about me!!!!
(Heard from Rabbi Yissochor Frand shlita)
September 12, 2013 8:03 pm at 8:03 pm #1023347oomisParticipantBy the way, what year DOES middle age officially start ANYway? “
Isn’t it obvious? For Jews, that would be age 60!
September 12, 2013 8:31 pm at 8:31 pm #1023348Veltz MeshugenerMemberWhen I was younger, I had unique opinions but I took it on faith that other people were smarter and I was often wrong. Now I realize that I was right all along.
September 12, 2013 9:15 pm at 9:15 pm #1023349ToiParticipanti thought peaches were fuzzy nectarines. now i realize that there are no rules.
September 12, 2013 10:17 pm at 10:17 pm #1023350Shticky GuyParticipant…I thought the sun set behind my neighbor’s
house, and was very proud to live nearby.
ROTFL!
When I was younger I thought my parents were SO ancient. Now I realize that “young” me is now even older than they were then…
September 12, 2013 10:28 pm at 10:28 pm #1023352marty gMemberI dont about 40 they say 40 is the new 30
September 13, 2013 1:42 am at 1:42 am #1023353eclipseMemberWhen I was younger I thought the EMES always reveals itself eventually, like in books or films. After what I had to absorb today, I know you can be on your best behavior, and be accused of horrible, untrue things, regardless. Now I realize that only Hashem decides which decade or century the truth will be revealed in 🙂
September 13, 2013 3:31 am at 3:31 am #1023354🍫Syag LchochmaParticipantoh eclipse that is so true. I always used to think emes would win out. And even if the truth doesn’t win, I never thought evil would continue to prevail even when it was discovered and revealed (NOT talking about predators, just the regular evil). It’s been hard life lessons. Hashem decides, He also waits til the last moment so people can do tshuva.
September 13, 2013 3:35 am at 3:35 am #1023355oomisParticipantThe good guys do not ALWAYS win….
September 13, 2013 4:45 am at 4:45 am #1023356Torah613TorahParticipantExplain please
It’s pashut. Popa is the smartest person in the world.
September 15, 2013 4:14 am at 4:14 am #1023357eclipseMemberSyag, in the Yom Kippur davening I kept seeing how we say Hashem is patient with sinners. I know it’s referring to each and every one of us, but you gotta admit some people sin waaaaaaaaay more than the average, and OPPRESS others, and I’m like “Do You have to be THAT patient?” But again, He’s patient with me too, so I guess I wouldn’t want it any other way…
July 13, 2014 2:54 am at 2:54 am #1023358👑RebYidd23ParticipantWhen I was younger I thought that when we kids argued about whose relatives could overpower whose I was the only one lying and the other kid’s grandfather was really Superman.
July 13, 2014 3:50 am at 3:50 am #1023359Bookworm120Participant@rebyidd23 – But my grandfather really IS Superman. Why would I lie about something like that? o.O
July 13, 2014 4:41 am at 4:41 am #1023360ari-freeParticipantWhen I was younger, I thought I should search for really old threads from CR in order to bring them back to life. Now I realize I can just wait for others to do that for me.
July 13, 2014 5:21 am at 5:21 am #1023361HPMemberWhen I was younger I used to think that other people can divorce you from your spouse, sort of like your boss can fire you from your job. I now know it does not work that way 🙂
July 13, 2014 6:12 am at 6:12 am #1023362notwhouthinkiamMemberWhen I was younger, I used to think that money grows on trees in your backyard. Now I realize that it only grows in the backyard of the white house.
July 13, 2014 6:16 pm at 6:16 pm #1023363Little FroggieMemberHP, I get the feeling you were here before. True?
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