There is a myriad number of things I have seen on Facebook. Most are mindless, time-filling, nonsensical things that I waste too many of my spare moments looking at, but every so often I come upon a sign or saying that really strikes a chord deep within me.
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
~Satchel Paige
It was a simple question but those words really resonated with me. Sometimes I forget the number of my authentic chronological age. I have honestly never felt that my time on this Earth truly reflects the age I feel I am on a daily basis. I have always thought that I have an old soul but I have a young energy. Time strings us along, giving us a sense of comfort as we grow older and we are more comfortable in our own skin. But time does not have to make us feel any older than we want to be. Wisdom does not always come with age, wisdom comes with understanding and acceptance.
Too often we are classified by our age. The year on our birth certificate does not have to define how we must act or how we should feel about ourselves. Age really is a state of mind. I will never define or categorize myself by the number of times the Earth has orbited the sun since I was born. Nor will I let the stray grey hairs that peek out from under my Garnier Nutrisse #535 hair color affect how I live my life because of the number of years I have been alive.
When we are told as children to act our age but what does that really mean? How can you behave as a number? To prove my point, Yoko Ono said it perfectly, “Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90 – time is a concept that humans created.”
How old would you be if you had to pick a number?
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Whenever I’m asked for my age I seem to say “25”, although I’m almost 28. I seem to be stuck in there so much that I really have to calculate how old I actually am 😀
I like to think I’m 32 and holding! Thanks for commenting.
Six months!
18? 45? Depends on my mood, I think. I’m just me.
I think i’m going to stay 32 forever!
That’s much better than 29. Everyone always wants to stay 29…
I didn’t really feel like myself until I was 30….I don’t want to go backwards!
It took even longer for me…
Old enough to know better, but still too young to care. 😀
Haha….I like it!!
Great post. I’d probably choose about 27, but only if I knew what I know now and still have the kids around. I love the wisdom and calmness that come, if you let them, with aging, but I don’t like the body/mind deterioration. That or perhaps I can become part-mechanoid or something.
Haha….I agree with all of that! Thanks for stopping by.
As far as I’m concerned i’m still in my teens. Whenever parents tell their kids to “watch out for the man” I still look around.
I just agree with whatever people guess.
I’m sticking with 32.
For me, or you? Or both?
For me, for sure….32 seems like a comfortable place to begin the holding pattern.
I think you may be right.
I wouldn’t be 41, that’s for sure 🙂 I don’t know how I got “old” because it seems like I finished college ‘just a few years ago’. I’m not doing that math!
I know….how does that happen? I used to be in the top of my math class and now it doesn’t compute. I’ve subtracted 13 years from my age and feel that is much more accurate! 😀