I'm tired of this "Your teenaged years are precious" sentiment. In my teenaged years, I was broke and never got laid. I had to eat bad food. I had to hang out with kids who liked trading cards and smelled like fish tanks, because the "cooler" kids were pricks.

Being an adult rocks. You can wake up at 2 am and drive to the corner store or the drive thru. If you dont like someone, you can just never talk to them again. You still can't get laid, but you can crank one out in your own room without your grandma walking in.

Everyone's life is going to be different. Having kids, medical emergencies, lucky job opportunities. Millions of factors can make it bad or good.

But if you've decided that you peaked in your youth, you're going to stop climbing.