I'm in my 30's and I still don't feel like an adult. I always feel like I'm mimicking what someone my age should be, and then when I go home, it's like, "finally, away from all those scary adults."
40s reporting in. It doesn't change, I feel like I've been perpetually 20-ish.
Welcome to adulthood.
So there's this commonly stated thing about ageing which is that we perceive each day of our lives not as a day, but as being the size of the fraction of our lives a day represents. Or more simply, a day is as long for a 5-year-old as two days are for a 10-year-old and so on.
With that in mind, and knowledge of a little mathematics, our lives viewed this way aren't linear, but logarithmic, and it means that we reach middle age not at 40-something but at something on the order of the square root of our life expectancy.
Looked at this way, we've lived far more than half our lives by the time we're ten, even if we expect to live to be a hundred.
No wonder so many of us feel like children. Or act like them.
The way you perceive time is based on your state of mind, not your age. My perception of time hasn't gotten faster as I age. It's gotten faster and then slower depending upon my lifestyle and my mindset.
I think it's less about perception of time as you're experiencing it right now.
Like, a month to me right now feels much MUCH shorter than a month when I was a kid. Much more when we talk about years. But an hour is still going to be as long or as short as it wouldve been whether or not I'm doing something.
we reach middle age not at 40-something but at something on the order of the square root of our life expectancy.
I always felt I am mentally 16. Can a 16 year old do adult stuff? Yeah, could probably trust them with instructions and stuff. Should you? Fuck no, stop asking them to be an adult! I don't think I'll ever feel adulty.
Poofy hair is useful when your hair is thinning.
You know, I was actually going to ask why short hair on elderly women was so common. I had just assumed it was a remnant of their preferences from when they were younger, but I can definitely see trying to maximize thinned out hair!
This is really healthy to accept and admit.
Is the kid version pulling on a pony tail or pushing up a stick?
They're using a stick to hold up the facade of adulthood
Thanks
Hey, why are you depicting my everyday feeling?
For me it's self-respect. If you learn to treat yourself with enough respect you are already filling out a huge portion of the adult form.
Maybe it's full, round and healthy growth in general that helps..
