What were you like at 22?

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Comment by Sohair Abdel-Rahman on October 9, 2008 at 12:17pm

I was in medical collage with many friends,used to go to every art gallary in Cairo& concert,was in love and very happy. Now I feel as if in my twenties again!!!

Comment by Judith on May 20, 2008 at 6:50pm

Allison---this is a delightful topic. I've got to run now, but I will definitely stop in tomorrow and participate. It was an eventful year for me (pregnancy and stillbirth) and the world (first Watergate arrests, Munich Olympics, Vietnam accelerating and huge protests).....More soon.....Judith in Portland

Comment by debb on May 20, 2008 at 6:42pm

lets see if i can remember back that far......
hum....i had been married for...5 years.
i had a 4 year old daughter and a 3 month old son.
i was still around 125 pounds.
i was happy and young and the world was my oyster.
i had never heard of diabetes. didn't know what a meter was.
my biggest problem was remembering to take the rolls out of the oven before they burned. (the family loved to tease me about my hockey pucks)

this was all, oh man, you made me figure it out, 29 years ago. now i really feel old. if i knew half of what i know now... i wonder if i would have done things differently. probably not. it's been fun, it's been sad, it's been easy, it's been hard, it's been what made me who i am today. warts and all. thanks for the trip down memory lane. but, hey wait a minute. i still have a lot of life left. i am just starting a new chapter in my life. after 34 years of marriage i'm getting a divorce. so new life...
i have two grandsons and a granddaughter. i have my own home. tons of wonderful friends. i have diabetes so i won't be bored. i'm older but i'm still happy. can't ask for more. oh yeah, i still forget to take the rolls out of the oven before they burn. some thing never change.

Comment by tmana on May 20, 2008 at 5:21pm

Hmm... the year I turned 22...

• I got my bachelor's degree (in engineering) -- three months behind the rest of my class, in a year in which there was an engineering hiring slump, and during the period in which (contrary to my reasoning in choosing my specialty) the industry in which I'd specialized completely collapsed
• My parents divorced
• After graduating, I had to move back in with my mother
• With no income, no license, no car, and no financial resources (both parents were seriously struggling!), had to figure out how to travel cross-country for job interviews (the jobs never materialized, either)
• I finally learned photographic printing (I'd been able to develop film easily enough, but without a darkroom, I could not print anything)

BTW, Reagan was President, we first started seeing homeless people sleeping in the streets in large numbers, there were still "welfare hotels" all over Manhattan, we were still trying to figure out the long-term effects of Three Mile Island, the Chernobyl accident had not yet occurred, and the Challenger accident had not yet occurred.

Comment by Ken Winters on September 1, 2007 at 11:13am

This is kind-of belated, but oh well.

The year following my 22 birthday included:
Got married (just celebrated 24 years)
Graduated from College
Got first career job (kept it for 22 years)
Moved to a different city (lived there 10 years)
Won the lotto for $10M
Rented first house (bought 1st house 2 yrs later)

OK, the lotto part was only in a dream, but the rest all happened and made 22 seem like a fairly significant year in my life.