DigitalFokus has a thread going for how old you actually are, but my question is, how old do you feel??
You don't have to say how old you are, just how old you feel (and maybe whether that's younger or older than you are), and I'd like to know why you feel that age. I'm just curious because personally, I don't feel my age and I was wondering how many of my fellow JWDers don't feel their age.
I'll start:
As you can see, I'm 20 years old, nearly 21, but I actually feel like I'm about 12 years old most of the time. That might be because my parents have a nasty habit of treating me like I'm still a little girl who's incapable of looking after herself, but it's also because I still feel really young at heart. I still like to do a lot of the things that younger people do, I like amusement parks and Nintendo games and teddy bears and candy and chocolate and birthday parties and Christmas morning and summer and kittens and the zoo and cartoons and Disney movies and board-games and jigsaw puzzles (ooo, and 3D puzzles, too, those are great) and pestering my brother, all of the same things I liked when I was little. I also don't feel like I'm old enough to go to bars or drink, though I don't find those things especially interesting anyway, so I don't bother with them. I don't feel old enough to do lots of the things that "grown-ups" do, so I just don't do them.
I guess that mentally, I'm just not growing up as fast as some people. Sure, I can be mature when I need to be and I can behave like an adult, but on the inside, I'm still a scared, nervous little 12-year-old who only wants to read lots of good books, watch a lot of cartoons, play Nintendo, eat candy when I'm not supposed to and tease my brother.
It also doesn't help that, physically, I'm not much different now than I was when I was 12, just a little curvier and taller and thinner, I still look mostly the same, compared to other kids that I grew up with who look nothing like they did when they were 12. I still even wear the same clothing sizes that I did back then!! My very-curvy best friend teases me to no end about my lack of physical "blossoming", we'll say. I tease her right back, because at this rate, when we're both 40, she'll look 40, and I'll still look 12.
So how about you, how old do you feel??
-Becka :)