Posted by noa on February 20, 2002, at 17:30:58
In reply to Age Survey -- How Old Are YOU? I'm 52., posted by Mark H. on February 19, 2002, at 10:20:23
As for how I feel? This is so hard for me to answer. For a long time, I was aware of feeling about 19 y.o. but recently I think I noticed that I do feel older, mabye in a good way, maybe not. I dunno. The numbers don't connect for me to feeling a certain age, maybe because I've "lost" so many years to depression.
I certainly haven't achieved some of the typical milestones of my age group, and sometimes when I'm with age-mates I feel like I stand out as the "young" one (no spouse, no kids, no house, no money, etc. etc.).
People are often surprised when they learn my age, thinking of me as being about a decade younger. I think partly that is due to only a few gray hairs (although some people have assumed my hair is dyed), and not much in the way of facial wrinkles, but certainly I don't have a "youthful" body in the sense of being in shape. Physically, I am out of shape like a much older person.
I think people think I'm younger because I'm unattached and have no kids and live in a crappy little apartment. But I'll take the mistakes anyway.
As for being 20 or 24 or therabouts, I can tell you that those were damn hard years and that I think things do get somewhat better as you get into your 30's if only because you get some control over some of the basics in life. The 20-somethings here might like to take a look at the book, "Quarterlife Crisis".
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