29. I can't wait to sit at the adult table.

Approaching 21...

19 over here. Still can't grow a beard and still get acne, but I've got a hell of a receeding harline with a growing baldspot in the back to match. Perhaps the result from putting whatever in my hair for that damn mohawk? Perhaps.

All and all I'd say 17 was the best year thus far. When my friends were old enough to drive, but still too young to drop out.

seventeen!

i like it alright, i don't really use age as a category towards much though.

i too am 17...

umm its cool i suppose...
it means we can still do stuff with chicks under 18
good for me right!!

28 next month. Can't grow a beard. Almost all of my friends are 21 and I still can't drive.

I think I'm gonna reset myself to 17.

Earwicker wrote:

eliya wrote:I hate people who judge others just by their age.

Once someone is approaching twenty I tend not to let age enter into any judgement at all - I just don't even consider it.

However, after a couple of encounters with someone around ten years younger than me I really start to notice certain 'things'.
The thing I'd not been considering then dawns on me and I end up thinking something like 'oh, well, he's only 20, that's why. He'll grow out of it'
or some such.

And I'm betting - in ten years time - you'll think the same thing too.

of course there's a difference between being 20 and being 30. sometimes for bad and sometimes for good. younger people are more energetic which sometimes make them look like idiots. what im saying is "once an idiot, always an idiot", not matter if you're 20 or 50. I've been considered as a newbe, an idiot, a youngster, whatever, just because of my age. people who never got to know me had prejudice on me, sometimes people who never met me, thought I'd be an ass just because of my ass. honestly, im tired of it. Im aware of the differences, i don't like it when people are making threads of "look, we're older, you're younger, don't get here".

that's it.

eliya wrote:

Earwicker wrote:

eliya wrote:I hate people who judge others just by their age.

Once someone is approaching twenty I tend not to let age enter into any judgement at all - I just don't even consider it.

However, after a couple of encounters with someone around ten years younger than me I really start to notice certain 'things'.
The thing I'd not been considering then dawns on me and I end up thinking something like 'oh, well, he's only 20, that's why. He'll grow out of it'
or some such.

And I'm betting - in ten years time - you'll think the same thing too.

of course there's a difference between being 20 and being 30. sometimes for bad and sometimes for good. younger people are more energetic which sometimes make them look like idiots. what im saying is "once an idiot, always an idiot", not matter if you're 20 or 50. I've been considered as a newbe, an idiot, a youngster, whatever, just because of my age. people who never got to know me had prejudice on me, sometimes people who never met me, thought I'd be an ass just because of my ass. honestly, im tired of it. Im aware of the differences, i don't like it when people are making threads of "look, we're older, you're younger, don't get here".

that's it.

While I suppose that our energy surplus is a contributor to idiocy, I don't think it's the overwhelming reason why our elders take us less seriously. Think about how much change a year brings. I can't believe how far I've moved in two years. Now imagine ten years, or twenty, all in the context of your physiologically mature body and mind. I'm sure there's an upper limit, but I assume that ageing is about getting comfortable with yourself as a standalone and in relation to everything else within empirical reality. Just as it is easy to recognize the difference between ourselves and a bunch of twelve year-olds, it is similarly (but less) easy for 30-somethings to notice our shortcomings. It's not something that they hold against us. They were here, too. You've got to think of it as a continuum from birth to death or the onset of debilitating mental illness. What starts as extreme development slowly fades into steady, gradual development. Believe me, we're far from being "grown up". Why does this bother you so much?

ha...16. I hate feeling so young.

I'm turning 24 this week. Birthdays are stupid.

Hopefully I'm not a useless forum member.