You won’t get the energy of seventeen back. You also won’t miss its panic. Every age trades something.

Each stage of life hands you something and takes something else off the table. The energy and nerve of being young come packaged with knowing almost nothing yet and caring enormously what people think. Later you lose some of the first and most of the second, which is not a straight loss.

Name one thing about this age you will miss and one you will be relieved to be done with. Then spend the first one now, while it is still in stock.