What's your age, part 2

[Luzur]

i will be 29 this autumn.

30 is coming ever closer.

[Desmone]

i will be 29 this autumn.

30 is coming ever closer.

I'll be 60 this summer

30 is getting ever further away

[Dragonlady]

i will be 29 this autumn.

30 is coming ever closer.

I'll be 60 this summer

30 is getting ever further away

Heh, yep it sure is.

[Asgard The Elder]

Well, I know I'm older. The government and every insurance company in the USA is sending me stuff about Medicare. (I turn 65 next month)

Not only Health Insurance but every Cremation Group, AARP, ETC in the world sending greatings as soon as you apply for Social Security.

[Dragonlady]

Well, I know I'm older. The government and every insurance company in the USA is sending me stuff about Medicare. (I turn 65 next month)

Not only Health Insurance but every Cremation Group, AARP, ETC in the world sending greatings as soon as you apply for Social Security.

Heh, and then the phone calls start. Dang spammers. Knock on wood, so far my email has been free of that stuff.

[Asgard The Elder]

Well, I know I'm older. The government and every insurance company in the USA is sending me stuff about Medicare. (I turn 65 next month)

Not only Health Insurance but every Cremation Group, AARP, ETC in the world sending greatings as soon as you apply for Social Security.

Heh, and then the phone calls start. Dang spammers. Knock on wood, so far my email has been free of that stuff.

That's why I use an answering machine and when the email starts I reply in kind I usually spam right back 10 to 100 for each one, and before you know it the email stops. A fun little game ROFLOL..!!

[CrazyBernie]

OR... you could get a Google Voice number and re-route the spam calls to a fake "This number has been disconnected" message.

That's what I'm told it does, anyway. I still have yet to finish configuring my GV number and linking it to my Droid.

[crumejack]

I am 22 years old. I never celebrate my birthday because i lost one year of my life...

[TheBuzzSaw]

over 25...

[Dragonlady]

Hey, we're getting more folks with high wisdom in here now! 8 folks 60+ Kewl!

I don't feel so alone now. Just stay away from my hoard and we'll get along fine. By the way, my hoard is chocolate and sapphires. (sapphires I've found in the wilds myself)..yes, I mean it.

In real life too! Biggest I found was 9 carats but when cut it became, 1 two carat, 2 half carat and 1 quarter carat. You lose about half to 2/3 of a stone when it is cut/polished.

[Evnissyen]

Hey, we're getting more folks with high wisdom in here now! 8 folks 60+ Kewl!

Well, like my father says (one good thing about maturing is that you start getting along with your parents . . . even if you still have long hair): Age doesn't necessarily equate with wisdom. He's an intellectual and also even wiser now than he was when I was younger (he's also very knowledgeable, and it's really too bad there aren't more people like him), but some people get older and older and never get any wiser . . . or knowledgeable, for that matter.

I would really like to live in a society where lots and lots of people did grow wiser as they grew older.

As for mental age vs. physical . . . I'm not so sure people really need to make the distinction -- this concept has bothered me for a long time, and for the longest time I've felt that we should be able to decide for ourselves how old we are: not based on how old we "feel" or "should be" but rather how old we "must be" . . . in other words: assuming you know your birth certificate is wrong and also that you cannot remember your childhood: by all evidence you can muster: how old are you?

Either that, or "age" should be based not on how much time has passed around you but rather how much time has passed within you. ...Understanding that time=change. Traditionally: other things change and you age, and other people make a judgment as to whether or not you're "aging well". Well, perhaps you should only age as quickly or slowly as you yourself change.

Hex:
I wish somebody was around me when I was 26 to make me feel young . . . I've felt old old old ever since I was 20.

Thankfully, my 31-years-old crisis is finally over. That was not fun.

For some reason it did not hit me at 30, like it was supposed to. It didn't hit me until I turned 31: then I was a wreck.

Hopefully, if I ever turn 40 I won't have to go through it again.

[Simone]

I seriously forgot. I might be 23.

[Evnissyen]

I seriously forgot. I might be 23.

Go with your gut, then. Physical Age = Degree of Change over time, by whatever measurement standard makes sense to you.

[mgbmgb]

missed part one i'm 52,

[MaximB]

I turn 27 this month,
But ever since I bought Book2 for Linux I feel like I'm 70.
Can't go to sleep at "normal hours", can hardly get up to work, almost falling a sleep at my chair at work - feeling so tired....