Life should be BACKWARDS

[Faust Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Faust]

I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, you
know, start out dead, get it out of the way. You wake up in an old age
home, feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too
healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a
gold watch on your first day. You work 40 years until you're young
enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink alcohol, you party, you're generally promiscuous (hey,
you've only got a few years left, what's the big deal?) and you get
ready for High School.

You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a baby, then, you spend your last 9 mont hs floating peacefully with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, larger quarters everyday, and then you finish off as an orgasm.

[deede Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close deede]

Rotflmao

Your comments are sort of like a paper I once wrote for a class assignment.

I felt, in the beginning of life (around 25 years old, right after college), you should be allowed to collect a pension and not have to work outside the home; you should only have to be at home/raise your kids; enjoy your home; enjoy life, etc -- after all, I reasoned, while you are working (some, like my hubby are working two jobs), you do not really get to enjoy your family and home as you would like to. Sometimes, you are too tired when you get home from work, to keep up with home maintenance; chaufering kids to/fro practices and other family activities. (I honestly believed you could play all day, and enjoy life more w/o working outside the home )

Then, when you are 60, you can go to work for the rest of your life. You have spent quality time with family and friends, and you are happy to go to work. And, because you have not had the stress of working outside the home, you will live to be a healthy 99 years old.


I just felt life was backwards. You work to purchase THE home, yet you spend all of your youth working to pay for it. You have a family, yet you work long hours to make life better for them -- versus staying home and enjoying them -- you miss a lot of the kids "firsts -- step, words, concerts, etc -- because you are at work.

Then you retire, and the home is paid for, and the kids are grown and out of the home (most are).

[SilkRoad Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close SilkRoad]

George Bernard Shaw got it right!

I'm inclined to agree. I think George Bernard Shaw said it best with "Ah, the pity youth is wasted on the young."

[4ARedOctober Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close 4ARedOctober]

That is too funny.......our 8 yr old daughter just asked us why the weekend is only 2 days and the school week is five days....she wants it to be the opposite and was wondering why they set up the system the way they did.

[funtime2 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close funtime2]

This is tooooo funnnny. I can't wait to share this with my co-workers.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

Once when my son was little I was trying to get him to go to bed because I was exhausted and he asked me "why to grown ups love to go to bed and little kids hate to go?"

[mav Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mav]

ROTFL !!
Thank you, Faust! This really gave me a chuckle. BTW, sounds like a good idea to me !

[Oracle Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Oracle]

A backwards universe is not all beer and skittles:

From one of my favorite shows; Red Dwarf.

Episode synopsis: The crew of the Red Dwarf find themselves in a parallel universe where time is running backwards. Part of the crew have been living on this "Earth" for a year (Rimmer and Kryten) and are explaining it to their crewmates who have just caught up with them (Lister and the Cat):

Rimmer: It's true! Once you get over the initial shock, things actually make a lot more sense this way round. There's no death here. You start off dead, you have a funeral, then you come to life! As each year passes you get younger and younger until you become a newborn baby. Then you go back inside your mother, who goes back inside her mother, and so on, until eventually we all become one glorious whole!

Lister: But we can't stay! Look, I'm 25 now - in 10 years time I'll be 15. I'll have to go through puberty again! Backwards!
Cat: Imagine that! Your gajimbas will suddenly rise back into your body, and the next thing you know you're singing soprano in the school choir!
Lister: And worse than that - in 25 years I'll be a little sperm, swimming around in somebody's testicles! I mean, pardon me, but that's just not how I saw my future!

Kryten: Take war. War is a wonderful thing here! In fifty years time, the second world war will start - backwards!
Cat: And that's a good thing?
Kryten: Millions of people will come to life. Hitler will retreat across Europe, liberate France and Poland, disband the Third Reich, and bog off back to Austria!

Lister: Okay, okay! But look at the flipside of the coin. It's not all good. Take someone like, say... St. Francis of Assissi. In this universe, he's the petty-minded little sadist who goes around maiming small animals! Or Santa Claus - what a bastard!
Rimmer: Eh?
Lister: He's the big fat git who sneaks down chimneys and steals all the kid's favorite toys!

And let's not talk about what happens in the loo.