If you could go back to any age...what would it be?
I thought about it and it was easy. 19...no question about it.
I think i remember it because it represents the year that my very first dream came true.
Ever since I was young i wanted to go to work at the Bahai World Centre. Its basically the administrative and spiritual center of the Bahai Faith.
I visited once and i'll never forget the one moment that made me want to go. I was walking down the terraces with my parents ( i think i was 10) and saw a man, dressed in green from head to toe walking through the gardens to say hi to my parents. Whats cool about this is that nobody is allowed to walk on the grass....nobody but the people that work there.
Ill never forget how freaking COOL this guy looked to me...the fact that he worked behind the scenes...he had grass stains all over him.... and i remember thinking how much i wanted to do that. I wanted to work, in the hot israeli sun, just like him. Anyone who has seen the gardeners at the bahai world center will know that they look like renegades or something and for a 10 yr old boy you can imagine how much of an impact that had on me.
well when i turned 19 i got accepted to go work there. I didn't become a gardener but got to work security instead. Ill never forget how excited i was when i landed in Tel Aviv...it was the first time in my life where i didn't know what would happen when i got off the plane....i didn't know anyone...i was on my own. It was unnerving but exciting at the same time.
Anyway I would go back to being 19 again and again. Not only did i get to go work in haifa but that is also the year i met my wife.
I can honestly say that life was simplest for me then.
I would see my friends, go to work, and when it came time for my shift to end i would walk home thinking about the beautiful girl I saw one night... and what i would say if i ever talked to her.
so what age would you go back to?
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