when you meet people your age

do they generally seem older or younger then you. whenever I see 23 on an age here or I meet somone whose my age I always assume they're older then me not in a maturity sense I guess I just don't feel 23 it sounds so old pretty soon I'll be in a home and will be taking out my dentures to eat jello.

 

I know what you mean, sometimes i still see myself as just a kid playing in a grown up world. Only lately when I have met people who havent left home yet that i notice how living on my own for the last 8 years has changed me.

 

Haha I know what you mean, 20 sounds so old to me..

 

hah that's funny I just sent you a pm once you read it you'll see why it's so funny. maybe that's why I think the way I do.

 

I feel the exact same way.

 

yeah i sometimes feel like a little girl in a grown up world...but it's so weird cos i also feel like everyone is still a kid in a grown up world, doing grown up things....we're young, lets just live life to the fullest!

 

I feel older by people my age. Most of the freshmen act like theyre 10.

 

i honestly think it varies from person to person....

 

most the people my age try to act older but they come across as very child like.

 

I ran into this guy from high school while getting coffee this morning and he was wearing a suit on a fucking sunday and just got a job as a public defender and was telling me how he works like 80 hours a week. He's been divorced He's only a year older then me! I was just like damn I'm not even done with school yet, I was wearing jeans fromt he same place i got jeans in high school, etnies-which I wore in high school all the fricking time and he was like wow you haven't changed a bit and I was thinking to myself damn I haven't I'm like me in high school with about 20 pounds extra. I felt like such a kid):

 

i'll be turning 20 in less than a month, so when i see friends that are 20...i'm like damn, your old. i don't feel 19 at all. at school, i have Sesame Street sheets on my bed, i have a cookie monster that plays the trumpet that stays on my bed. i have a picture of my face super-imposed onto a picture with Barney on my wall. so yea, i'm getting old.

 

I feel old for my age. Most 19 year olds I run across seem so much younger than me, and I just feel so old sometimes. I mentioned to my stepdad that I act like I'm 30 sometimes and he just went "yes" :-/

 

Sometimes I forget that I'm actually 20... like just yesterday, someone asked how old I was and I automatically answered I'm 16. Haha. Oh well.. But yea, anyway... most 20 year olds seem so ancient.

 

Why take them out? Just suck it through your teeth.

I haven't met too many women my age. Most of them are a bit older than me. I'm always the young'in.

I don't feel like I'm 31. I feel younger.

 

haha.... it's weird because i can totally remember when i was a little kid, thinking that 21 was so old. right now i still feel like i'm bumbling insecurely through life most of the time, and days pass where i miss my mom like i'm 6 again.

sometimes i meet fellow 21'ers that seem eons older than me, like the business-suit guy lynsey was talking about, and sometimes they're still too young to carry on a decent conversation. it all depends.

 

I like the fact I still get carded for smokes. That makes me feel young.

I've probably talked to more guys my age and I think they seem fairly mature. Most have family's and/or are married.

I don't work and I didn't go to college. My acedemic skills are low but my motherly skills are above average. Even though I'm not very gifted outside the home I'm always interested to hear what people are doing with their lives. At any age.


Lynsey when you finish with school and your career gets established you will be able to look back and feel like you have accomplished a great deal. Then look in the mirror and smile at yourself. You have tremendous beauty.

 

My mom got carded for smokes when she was down in Arkansas about half a year ago... she's 40, heh. But she still looks pretty young (or so I think)

 

I don't care if it's their policy or not. I leave there with a big smile on my face feeling great. Sometimes I need lil' boosters.lol

 

I think in society the perception of age/maturity is often defined or measured by an individual's achievements or life experiences. The reality is that it vaires tremendously based upon the individual. People are just conditioned by society to have certain expectations of others based upon what they've done. The reality is that I've met people my age (29) who let's say are single and work at a skateboard shop and at first impression I think that they seem ten years younger than me, but when I get to know them they are far more mature and seem older than I am. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I've met people my age who work on Wall Street, make buko bucks are married with three children and on first impression I think that they seem older than me, but when I get to know them, they come off as ten years younger than I am.

So, when I meet someone, I may have some preconceived notions as to where I think they are at in life based upon their age or experiences, but generally that number and what they've done often doesn't make that much of a difference as to how mature they truly are.

Knowing this, I hardly ever compare others who are my age to myself anymore as to whether I feel they are older or younger than me.

 

thanks Laura