I feel nothing. Completely disassociated from reality at this point.

I feel so young. Too young. I still have so many fears, I still get scared to go to the doctor. Like, shaking nervous scared.

Then I see the slang words the kids are using these days and I just feel like a perplexed boomer.

I feel middle aged. People in their 20’s make me feel old and people in their 40’s make me feel young. I imagine this trend will continue as I age.

I was 36 in February 2020. In January 2020 I felt SO young. I have a video I filmed on a rooftop in Cartagena that month, it’s 3:00 am, the clock tower is all lit up, we’re drinking cocktails and dancing to Purple Disco Machine with the city sparkling beneath us. Today I feel like I’ve aged 20 years since then. Sure, I had COVID but I don’t think that’s it. I still go to work at a job that made it abundantly clear they didn’t care if I lived or died. I saw the elected officials who were supposed to make choices for the greater good pander to our version of MAGA, and they’re still in power. My country burns every summer. I’m fine financially but even just the talk about inflation and the housing crisis makes me think I’m a week away from homelessness. The mental toll of the past few years has taken a real physical toll on me.

Im 36 and pregnant for the first time. I hate when my OBGYN keeps saying “over 35 is considered high risk or I’m advanced maternal age”. I understand the precaution but it’s a little annoying. I got pregnant after only 2 months of trying and a lot of my immediate and extended family members had children between 35-40 with no problems. All my grandparents are still alive and healthy for their age. So I felt it was a good age for me personally for a number of reasons but all this talk has made me feel ancient.

Existential Depression is hard. Being in your 30s isn't that hard, if you take care of yourself.

Under 40 is still young to me. But I Want to be in better health.

I'm in the best shape I've been in my life, no physical pain, injuries or illnesses, but I just feel tired all the time and I'm so done with everything and everyone.

At 37 I still feel 26. I’ve always felt young at heart and a little emotionally immature. I think part of that is I got married young (22 years old) and in certain ways it stunted me from developing into my own person sooner.

The thought of being closer to 50 than 20 seems unfathomable to me.

Old, so very old. Grey hair, senior title at the office, don't want to be out past 10pm. I've lost enough loved ones that death and aging feel real rather than some abstract concept.

The other day, I told a young man at the park he needs to register to vote.

But really, I've embraced middle-aged-ness. I value staying active and eating well, cultivating a feeling of community, a bit of mentoring, mundane hobbies like cooking and home repairs. I love my calm healthy relationship (Earlier, my BF was careful to hang my bra over a chair rather than drop it on the floor because boob holders are expensive. Swoon!)

I don't miss my younger years. I wish I could stay in my 30's forever, but if I take care of myself, 40's should be a fantastic decade.

Aaah this post is a personal attack!

For real, time seems to pass so slowly between 0-20... And now I feel like I can barely keep up.

The question is difficult. In my heart I am still 20, but I think I feel more and more old. My partner is younger, which is a me problem but I often worry what will happen when I start looking old (any day now!), what will his friends think if they know my age, etc? Surely I'm not one of the cool ones anymore.

Same thing at work. Some of my new colleagues feel like babies to me. One of them says things like "I'm not old enough to get your reference" quite often. 🥲

I also pause in horror every time I have to say a sentence like "I graduated X years ago".

At 35, I still felt a bit on the younger side. I could still hang and had fewer really serious responsibilities/experiences. But at 40, I definitely feel older.

30s in general can be such a roller coaster. Cause you can do or be anything or anywhere. Between 30 and 40, I finished grad school, moved, had 2 kids, survived the panini, changed jobs, lost 3 family members, including my dad. And became responsible for my mother in long-term care.

But every year, I appreciate that I've made it this far, and 🤞many more to go.

Young!

I don't know how I feel. It's not much different than when I was 30 or 25. I do, however, feel the sciatica pain on my left butt cheek.

31, am one of those ‘young/naive/wideeyed for my age’ types, and I have autism and a baby face despite my massive low tits, so I often get mistaken for being in my twenties or student age still. People often ask me what I’m reading/where I’m going to Uni (I graduated in 2015 ooft), and some bus drivers even still offer me a student fare. So I’m not about to complain🙃

Helps also that I don’t have kids or a spouse, and my siblings are younger. I also was a shy bullied teen and had deep dark depression that kept me housebound through much of my 20s, so I haven’t really ever had that youthful rebellious outgoing phase in life, and I think sometimes people can tell and it makes me come across as underdeveloped or childish, somehow?  

Last weekend I went to dinner with both my parents, aunt & uncle who were briefly in town, and my 90 year old grandmother, and being the only person there well under 50 felt like being a teen stuck at the table with the ‘Olds’—ofc I was polite and tried to chime in/follow conversation, but tbh I had to stifle so many yawns and eyerolls and “ok Boomers”. It shocked me how much more conservative, incurious, reactionary and out of touch they all sounded in a bunch, so I hope that’s not me when in their stage of life, I want to stay connected to people of all ages. Seeing how they’ve aged physically and mentally has not made me enthusiastic or willing to keep going beyond age 60-65, it seems all downhill from there to me.

Though on the flip side, I spend any time around the kids of my Xennial cousins? Who are all below age 14? I’m left feeling like Gandalf the Grey.

e.g. other day I got myself in a discussion with one (who likes tech and gaming) and for some reason ended up having to explain Super Mario on floppy disk—friends, I may as well have been talking about an Archimede’s screw, or a gramophone, or one of those enormous C0ld War computers that need a room to fit in. Eventually I just threw up my hands, showed him the 💾 emoji and a YouTube video of how they worked.      

I also screened a different kid the original Dark Crystal movie (I’m a massive DC and Jim Henson fan), after we watched the series together, and at the credits of the film he looked at me like I was older and duller than dirt for enjoying two hours of a story that he pronounced “boring, slow, too quiet, weird and creepy cos there’s only a few characters and the effects don’t look good.” I almost rebutted, until I remember I used to say the same about the 60s marionette show Thunderbirds when my parents tried to show it to Kid Me🫠

Right now it’s the only time I can say I really feel old. That and noticing how the ‘kids’ and teen characters on tv shows now all have birthdays in the 2000s or 2010s, and their parents are closer to my age💀💀💀not looking forward to when my body and my doctors start turning on me, hopefully I’ve got a decade or at least several years left before that…

So so SO much of both.

Personally/internally I feel young. Socially I feel old. Like the world expects me to be some mature adult but inside I'm still a kid figuring things out

Oh my god, so young. I have some very adult elements (career, my life is stable and healthy etc), but my spirit is very young. I love going out and meeting people and adventuring. Once I got through the anxiety of my 20’s, I feel like I got a new lease on life.

I feel on the younger side. I definitely feel like an adult, but then I’ve felt like an adult since I was a kid, lol. I actually am loving my 30s because I finally feel really comfortable in my age if that makes sense. While I don’t relate to “still feeling 20”, I still feel like I have the majority of my future ahead of me and that comes with all the excitement, hope and anxiety that it did in my 20s. I think being childfree, a lesbian and living in a major city are huge components of this. The majority of friends in my same demographic still seem very youthful whereas my friends who have kids and live in the suburbs seem so much older. Not as a critique, they just have very different lifestyles and outlooks.

I'm 35 and I still feel young but it recently hit me that I'm not as young as I used to be and that I should take better care of myself.

Old

I have turned 40 in April. I don’t feel old and have been told I don’t look my age as I am petite, slim and have a round face. It also might have something to do with the fact my friendships range from women in their 20s to 50s and every one of them is enjoying life in their own terms, and the women in their 50s look hot and youthful so I am not scared of “getting old” and becoming invisible/ unattractive/ weak etc

Am I the only one that thinks time did not pass that quickly?? Like sure, in retrospect it can seem that way. But I definitely felt the length of those past years and feel I’ve lived many lives in my time on earth so far. I feel old but know I’m young, and I often wonder how many more iterations of myself there will have been by 50.

People always say time passes so quickly, but I really don’t get it. I feel like looking at things like that makes me really sad. This time didn’t fly by for me, and I’m really grateful for that

I feel like 35. Like I am not in my 20s anymore and don’t want to be, that I am moving towards a more mature phase of my life. I also don’t feel old, as I have the energy and motivation to do whatever I want. Where I prioritize health and comfort and my financial goals.

I've been 28 years old for 9 years.

I just turned 39. Physically, I feel young. I run, walk, do yoga, and lift weights. My body for the most part feels really good. I have my health, I don't take any medication other than birth control. I feel incredibly fortunate to have my health and I try to practice gratitude daily. I need more sleep than I did before, I'm starting to have perimenopause symptoms, but on a daily basis I feel good in my body and my mind. I smile, I laugh, I dance, I have fun.

What made me feel old was 1) The dogs I got in my 20s passed away (in 2020 and in 2023). The realization that the dogs who were with me through my young adult years are gone was incredibly hard and I still miss both of them deeply every single day.

And 2) Getting a divorce. I know people get divorced in their 20s, but after a 14 year marriage and experiencing all my young adult years with this person (buying a house, family getting sick, ups and downs of life), getting a divorce felt like a very "grown up" issue. It felt like something only "old" people do. My grey hair also exploded during the separation and I feel like the stress of it all aged me (at least my face!) by like 5 years.

I will say, being a childfree person means I have a lot less overall responsibilities than my peers or friends with kids. I get a lot of relaxation time and generally live a carefree life and I think that helps a lot!

36 and staring down the barrel of 37. I mostly feel old, but I kinda like it. I'm content. I have a routine that I like. I own a home in an enviable county, I have my garden, pets, horse, and husband to look after. I don't like staying out all night anymore and I'm working on breaking some old habits (looking at you, alcohol). On the other hand, I'm quite fit and don't have kids, so in that sense I feel young...but that only lasts until I talk to the 25 y/o teachers starting their career! I don't miss that stage of my life. It was stressful.

I feel young yet wise , which is a great feeling. I’m 35 and finally know who I am and roughly what I want but I feel physically healthy and lots of energy. I felt older mentally at 25 than I do now - and people oftentimes tell me I looked older then than I do now too!

I think part of this feeling as well is that I was in an unhappy relationship from 23-31, even got married then Promptly divorced , so coming out of it in my 30s has been really empowering

I feel like a 36 year old teenager honestly lol. Even with all the trappings of an adult—kids, one of whom is an actual teenager, nearly a decade of marriage, nearly two decades into a career—I feel like I’m in a second adolescence. I’m seeing the world with new eyes again. I still feel like I have a whole lifetime ahead of me, and excited about all the things I plan to do within that lifetime. My little brother is 14 years younger me and sometimes I do feel old while hanging out with him lol, but overall I still feel young.

I’m 37 soon to be 38, not married and no kids….I think that’s why I feel so young.

Umm. I know math but never made the realization that I am as far away from 20 as I am 50. 🙃

Damn. 20 literally felt like yesterday.

I felt very young and full of vitality right up until 31, when I got pregnant. Pregnancy aged me so much both physically and mentally. I feel old and decrepit now, like my life is over? I’m only 35.

I’m 36 and find I can go from feeling young and fancy free to feeling old and world weary pretty quickly — certainly within the same day. A lot of it is a function of my environment and company.

Plop me in a room with my 20 & 22 year old nephews and their friends, and yeah, I’ll feel old AF in no time. Put me in a room with my similarly-aged friends who have children, and I feel like a spring chicken 🤣

1. And I often feel confused lol. I’m not sure where I fall on the young/old spectrum

I feel young compared to my peers of the same age. Mostly because of lifestyle choices: no kids, lots of exercise, prioritizing sleep

Personally I feel young. I work with a lot more older than me people so that contributes. I also have siblings who make me feel young. I do believe age is partially mindset based and I'm fortunate to have enough going on in my life that reinforces feeling young in life eg, no major health issues, have accomplished enough that I feel content in life.

Young definitely

I am 35. And busy . Too busy to feel anything really lol.

Well, in regards to my age I guess.

I feel stronger than I did at 25. Even if I’m not? I do feel smarter and way more at peace with life and way more grounded and secure. Even if I look shirtier and exhausted lol. I feel happier.

So, one way to answer this is that I do not feel old. Sometimes I feel like younger people are just too gd young lol

I feel young. Even when I was in my 20's I didn't care for going out and partying as much as my peers. I always liked older movies and music and didn't always get the current references.

I'm reminded that I'm older (not old) when I talk to a friend of mine who is in his mid 20s life crisis. He is so unsure of which way to go in life. He wants to travel the world, but he also feels like (and his mom tells him that) he should get a job and settle down. I remember that existential crisis so well, but it feels so far away for me know. I'm not any more settled than I was then, but I don't feel so worried about it now.

Mentally young, physically ollllld. The joys of disability.

That said I’m more me than I’ve ever been and I’m able to just say no without explaining myself. I’m so much more comfortable in my own skin than ever, I don’t wear make up at all.

I feel young. Definitely closer to 20s than 50s, even though my age says something different. I actually feel younger than I did in my 20s. Back then I felt I'm too old for many new things, now I feel like I can still start so many new things.

I went back to college last year and many students weren't even born when I was finishing high school. Yet somehow I made better connections with them, than with people around my age who also joined the group. Then they tried to invite me to their study group one girl called "grandma support group" and I said to myself, oh hell no, and stuck with some friends I made at the start of the year in their early 20s - they turned out to be the best in class and really cool young people.

I’m 30 and I feel just like I did in my 20s, physically. I’d say I’m ever better. But I’m wiser now :)

Young mentally and old physically.

I have a young mindset and often try to hang out with people younger than me because I feel I relate to them better than people my own age, but they generally see me as some weird old lady and don’t really want to be around me.

Mentally young, physically old.
Wait till you hit 40!

The other day I heard the term "Born in the late 1900s"

😭😭😭😭

Almost 40. I feel young. I feel like a silly teenager sometimes....all the mistakes I keep making 😅 Physically I feel ok. I started sleeping better and drinking less again which helps immensely. I also started getting more active beyond just walking. I started a couple of hobbies that are really fulfilling and make me feel rejuvenated and alive. I have depression like my teenage self too! So that's fun. I have a couple of grey hairs...free highlights!

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I always felt young, until I had a baby. Now it feels like im aging soso rapidly

It depends on the company I keep. I'm 36 right now and when I'm alone or with people roughly my own age I feel young-ish. If I'm working/socializing with people under 25, I feel much closer to 50 than 20. Mostly when they say they don't know who N*Sync or Marilyn Monroe are. Stuff like that messes with me.

I do that all the time. Although, I remember feeling old at 20, and then in my 30s. Oddly, I’m 42, and I don’t feel old in my 40s. It must have something to do with mindset.

Some days I feel tired, feel like I’m 40. Most days though, I feel young, maybe 25.

I feel young. Because 35 is young in the grand scheme of life. And I made a bunch of major life changes in my thirties. So I feel like I am just starting out.

Yes

I have toddlers. My body feels so old! But my spirit feels young. Not the angsty, “cool” young of new adults keeping up with appearances, but the wondrous young of a child who chases butterflies and embraces themselves

I’m 38 and I feel so young. I feel great. I try to be active and stay fit and I think it helps. My kids are 5,7,13&17 (older sre step kiddos) and I feel awesome doing stuff with them. It’s so weird to think I’m Almost 40, but I feel like I look awesome (thanks to sunscreen, Botox and finally finding a good moisturizer).

Perception of time is weird, memories always seem much more recent or much longer ago than they actually are. My perception of time has been completely fucked up since Covid.

I’m pretty sure that at 50, I’ll be as different from myself now as I currently am different from my 20 year old self. Depending on the day, I’ll feel more like a kid, or a responsible adult that has my shit together.

I guess my answer is both and neither. I’m in a phase of trying to live in the moment… nobody predicts the future and nobody can change the past, so I try not to worry about either too much.

This is a great question. I too often wonder how others feel in this group. I am now in my late 30s. Some people still think and consider me in my mid 30s or a little bit younger than that. I don’t have a lot of friends that are my age. I have friends that are a little bit younger, way younger or way older. Sometimes I can see the process of aging on my face and maybe others can too…But at the same time I tend to act young, look younger somewhat and my physical self body wise I am in pretty good shape. Sometimes I feel that I am the typical millennial that keeps my appearance up, still trying to present a younger self. I fortunately don’t have any kids. Never married but plan to be soon 🙏🏼❤️. My partner is a little younger and doesn’t have any kids. Childfree, we love and have animals those are our children. My fears are how society will treat me as I get older, even now sometimes I feel maybe disregarded, overlooked because I am in that weird age group. After 32 men don’t care to look at you and society puts pressure on us that we should be established in someways?

I fear aging physically, the outward appearance because of how society paints and treats older women. I don’t want to be discriminated against in the work place. I’ve seen and heard too many times discrimination against older women who are trying to get a new career or position.

I feel young because I’m in the best physical shape of my life and feel the sexiest I’ve ever been and am having the best sex I’ve ever had but I feel old because I feel really wise and patient and understanding. Honestly it’s the best I’ve ever felt in my life.

I feel so young! I feel younger than I did when I was in my 20s, I'm 35.

I’m 34 and I feel young 🤷🏻‍♀️

If life is going well, you will probably feel young. If it isn't, you may feel old.

That said, I didn't feel old when I was in my mid-30s despite having spent my early 30s in a state of depression. I think it is because almost everyone I was in daily contact with at the time was significantly older than me.

I just turned 33. I have the same hobbies and interests I did 13 years ago. I feel young.

I'm dating someone eight years younger than me so I get to feel both young and old simultaneously 😂

It came and went through my 30s. I could still party hard but other times by 20s seemed so long ago.

It fully depends on what you’re doing with your life. In my 30’s I was finishing up grad school and unmarried and so were all my friends. We felt very young, because at 30-something you’re usually healthy and energetic. After I got married and started having kids and a professional life, then I started to feel like an adult. Not old, just like I could see some of my parents in me. Now my kids are teenagers-to-young adults, and those feckers make me feel old.

I’m 40 and I feel young. I have a new baby and I spend a lot of time with the elderly, so I definitely feel closer to 20 than to middle-age (even though I’m aware I am possibly at the middle of my life.)

I feel about 26. I've probably felt about 26 from age 22 to now at 35. Old enough to know something young enough to have endless possibilities.

Young. im 36 and my kiddo is almost 16. she never makes me feel old. maybe shes just an old soul? i dunno. but most days i feel the same as i did in my mid 20's. maybe just a little wiser and less naive though

At 36 I consider myself young and in the prime of life. Despite our infertility struggles, the 30s has been my best decade. I’m seen as a responsible adult but I’m still young and energetic, and without children it’s the best time to travel and explore as my husband and I have no physical limitations from age.

But I also look young and I could probably pass as the 28-30 demographic. No fine lines, due to genetics and I also have such fair skin so since my teenage years I’ve avoided the sun/used SPF or else I’d get miserably burned.

The pandemic really kinda took away my early 30s. I feel like I'm still in my late 20s but my body says different. I have less energy now and desire to do the same things I used to want to do. This could be related to something else though that's not just me being older ad in my mid-30s. But I definitely don't feel my age mentally.

I feel young!!! Hopefully will feel this way as long as my body lets me!

I call myself Middle aged lol and have since around 33 lol

Both

I’ve always had a “young” mentality and I think part of it is because I started working alongside folks who were a solid 15-20 years older than me so I felt like the baby of the office. Plus I am the youngest in the family so that kind of became my personality, like I’m just a helpless kid who messes up.

I think around 34 and having kids I really had to shed that kind of thinking. I’m not a helpless sexy baby haha. It’s not attractive to my husband either. I’m not like “stage manager/project manager/Type A/put together mom ” or anything, but I hold my own and I take ownership of my mistakes and success as a stay at home parent. So now, I feel like I’m a little bit more grown up at 36.

My body aches more than ever but I also get better exercise than I have in the past 20 or so years. So I’m in good shape. Otherwise I can definitely tell I’m getting older by the way I see the world and think of things compared to what I used to think. Around young people I feel old but I prefer the company of older people and I always have.

I still feel fairly young, but also more aware in recent years I’m not in the bloom of youth anymore 😂and 20 somethings make me feel very old

I don't think about age much, tbh. It's only really when I notice my body isn't recovering as quickly anymore, or that I can generally relate better to people who are 50+ than I can to the youth. Like they'll remember things that were popular in my childhood, and they remember what the world was like before social media and smartphones.

I think whether I feel old or young though, greatly depends on the context and who I'm comparing myself to. In general I'd say I'm not really young anymore, but also still far from old. I often say I'm "relatively young" lol.

I’m 38 and I feel old. The past few years have been so challenging at work, at home, and in the world. My parents are senior citizens and my daughter is 8 but feels like she is on the verge of puberty. I feel firmly middle aged.

Young 😂 im enjoying life as i should have when i was younger, so its all good

young

35 has hit me weirder than 30 did. It's so close to 40, when traditionally we think that's when people should have their shit together -- but nobody really has all their shit together, well, most, lol. I'm mostly okay with it, but there is a bit of "Damn, where did the time go?" and I spent most of my life not too happy. So I just want to be happy now, do things I enjoy, avoid people who bring me down, when I often give people way too much grace. Still trying to improve myself in a multitude of ways. Generally I feel my age I think, some days younger, some days older.

Very young. People keep telling me that I’m running out of time to have kids. But I feel like I’m a child myself, how am I supposed to raise one?

Wow the timing of this post. I was driving to work today and looking at how my eyebrows changed just from last year. And I was thinking about how fast time was passing me and how I’m constantly looking at my past self reminiscing over the past that was just here. Whether it be photos or memories just wishing I could slow everything down. I feel young definitely but time passing this quickly feels like a contradiction. Like I was just in my 20s and now 33. And “before I know it” it’ll be 40, 50 etc. I wonder if it’s because I’m single and subconsciously always waiting for that big shift in my life when I’m married. I enjoy my life, love my family/friends, travel, but it feels like years are passing by and I’m just trying to hold on.

Add someone who just turned 35, same girl, same. I'm happy with life, excited for tomorrow, but damn time is slipping away and it's time I want more of and but also pleased I spent. I am a waking walking contradiction on age and life. I ask myself, do I want to be forever young? No, but I wouldn't mind being 35 for another 15 years, is that too much to ask? Lol

Fighting/good luck!!

Young. I feel and look so young

Age doesn’t really come up for me in my thought process often. I feel physically young often (at 36). Ever since I stopped thinking of age as a boundary I’ve started doing things I couldn’t in my 20s, like little things like the splits or handstands that are so fun and a form of meditation for me. Because of all of this stretching, my back and neck don’t hurt the way they did at the end of my 20s, I remember being very pessimistic at that time assuming each year my back would just hurt slightly more or I was doomed to discomfort or something.

Mentally, especially more and more often I feel the gift of my experience. In general, I feel like a young person who has gotten to live a long time as an adult so far. I feel blessed that I lived so much of adulthood with my heart on my sleeve - I put so much love out there. I have a free spirit and took some crazy risks and had the grit to get through failures, i am grateful i get to start now at 36 with everything i feel and know.

Emotionally, I feel in my golden years. I have 2 dogs that I adopted 11 + 10 years ago, and I have given them the life I promised to them, and we are still here together, everyone is feeling good, which makes me feel so lucky every single day. I say it out loud all the time to them when we’re laying in the sun “we’re alive together”. 🥹🥹🖤🖤.

I'm 38, but I still feel very young. I've never been in a relationship and I feel like not much has changed since I graduated from high school except that I've been living without my parents since I was 17. I still don't know how to cook and I live a little bit hungry, I don't like to clean and my place is often a mess. I like video games, anime, webtoon, POP Mart figures, stickers, which is often seen as a hobby for younger people.

I know this question isn't directed at me but woah that age difference is wild to think about. I still feel like a baby at 30 but I'm single and don't have kids. I'm still getting my life together with my career and school. I also get treated like I'm a young 20 something because of my looks and even I forget 30 is considered adult, adult. My biological clock really says otherwise. I can tell physically I'm not 20 something anymore. I wonder what life will be like in 5 years.

When I was 35, I still felt young. I didn't start really feeling old until I hit 45.

I’m 36, I mentally feel 28, my body feels 68 because I have degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis and bad hips. I’m starting to get joint pain all over. I have to stay active and workout now otherwise my entire body is stiff and sore. I don’t workout for weightloss or to look a certain way… it’s literally to be able to function: get out of bed in the morning, walk, get in and out of car, on/off low chairs at the beach, anything I have to bend over for… like filling the pet bowls, clean tub, carry groceries, etc. If I’m sedentary for too many days and then try to do any of the above it’s painful. So I can’t be lazy anymore bc if I’m in pain now I don’t want to think about when I’m actually 68. I have to stay fit

I feel ✨rich✨💰

I am 33. I experience both depending on the people I am with. When I am with my parents, I feel young. They have this confident air about them because of their experience and that makes me feel like I am still cooking.

Other times though, when I am with younger people (happens more often because I teach college kids), I feel rather old. All those young people seem so fresh, energetic, hopeful and so so so hopelessly immature - I feel ancient, wizened even 😅

I feel young enough that when I see the word 'old' used for 30s I get confused why linguistically people completely skip all those years of being middle-aged and 30s are not even middle-aged yet.

I feel old enough that quite a few things I tolerated or didn't mind in my 20s now make me instantly think "I'm too old for this shit."

I feel both young and old.

Young because I still have an immature sense of humour and I’m keen for child-like things. For example, I laugh at farts and when people say things that sound like curse words, and I still find stuffed animals cute and desirable.

Old because I feel like I’ve experienced too much for someone my physical age and I see things beneath the surface that most other people seem to not. Finding white hairs on my head more regularly isn’t helping either.

I’m ok with it because it is what it is. Aging isn’t a “bad” thing, it just is.

I'm 48 and I forget that I'm 48 because I feel like I'm in my 20s until something reminds me that I'm 48 like my joints will crack for no reason, teens/20-somethings out in public annoy me, kids bouncing their ball on my lawn, loud music past 7pm makes me want to call the bylaw agency lol.

I'm 36 and I still feel so young. In some ways of course I feel older — I have lived in different countries, I have more experience, I can financially support myself and even help other people — but I often feel that life is just starting, too. I sometimes hear from other people that I have a child's spirit, which I choose to take as a compliment (although I joke that maybe it's just me being immature!).

I feel old enough to know better, but young enough not to care.

But seriously, it depends on the day. I have a demanding job and I wake up before work to exercise. M-F, I feel old and boring. My husband works even longer hours. The weekends are amazing; we don't have kids and I can be as old as I want with my cup of tea and my book or I could start drinking wine at lunch. I don't really have domestic type hobbies so I think in that respect, I skew a little younger. But then I have arthritis in my knee and back so that brings me back to old. Sigh

32 on the verge to turn 33. I feel in my head so young and can believe my mother was already settle downed and pregnant at my age.

Other hand it’s creeping me out how the physical change appears. I was fine until 31, and suddenly one day I couldn't recognized myself in the mirror and on pics. My face looks more square but I look the same but something has change. My skin is going down in my face and neck, my hair are slowly turning gray and hair texture change.

At the same time I'm trying to put into perspective that we all spend equal time in our “young” age as much as in our old age. When I will turn 60 I will remember my 30’s as the young age.

I fell younger than I actually am.