How old will you be in 2011? (Please take the poll)

I think its more important to stop saying is I should, or I have to, too many of lifes pressures are self inflicted by our own ability to see we do have choices,

I don't know whether I'm exactly allowed to ask this personal question here, however I think most of the people I've come across in this forum are at least 20 years old. I don't really find a lot of people who love literature; even my literature class is full of people who don't really read that much, so I was thinking that it may be because I'm around 19 and people around here in Singapore (the country I'm living in) and Indonesia (the country I'm from) generally don't read as much English literature books as I do.

So far I've only found like around 2-3 people whom I can really talk to about literature anytime anywhere. Sometimes it kills me because I can't discuss books that are not widely read with them.

It'll be interesting to know the age range of the people who're active here and who are really passionate in reading and finding out more about literature.

This poster is 22.

It's hard being a teenager. And it's hard being a teenager who's a little ahead of the curve like that- at it's best, literature is subtle and refined, presumably beyond the blooming faculties of your peers. Maybe they get there some day, but this reader remembers almost feeling like he'd read the book backwards. The natural order of things would seem to be that a person ends at literature/philosophy/culture, not start there.

But your people will come along, so hang in there. Maybe a bit too far between for your liking, but when they do you'll know to hang on to them. Conversely, empathy is an artform; this may not be a problem for you but one of the lessons this reader would say he's learned is to accept people on their own terms, instead of as either falling short of your standards in whether or not they should like literature, or understand it, or have a certain 'degree of intelligence.' Personally, that was a harsh lesson to take- maybe the one that stings the most.






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This is a very difficult question to answer since I stopped being age old some decades ago!

I am not being of any age in 2012, as I had not been of any other in previous years.

So the best way to describe it is too old to be young and too young to be old. Always keeping the meaning of the words young and old open to new definitions!

Okay, I took the poll. I feel old, very very old compared to most of you. :nopity: I am actually 54, physically I am in very good shape, and I weigh less than I did in my 30's. Sometimes I forget how old I am until I look in the mirror, then I scream.:eek6:
But I don't have grey hair and I like Eminem, so there.