It's funny how we 'celebrate' being 20, or being 21, or 30; when really all we're 'celebrating' is actually completing the 20th, or 21st, or 30th year of life.
This year, when I 'turn' 30, I'll be starting my 31st year of life...
It's funny how we 'celebrate' being 20, or being 21, or 30; when really all we're 'celebrating' is actually completing the 20th, or 21st, or 30th year of life.
This year, when I 'turn' 30, I'll be starting my 31st year of life...
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
Funny how time passes so quickly. Or maybe not so funny. Oh well...
Wouldn't be long before I would be shifting to a new age-bracket!
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
This year is my first 29-and-holding year....so that makes me 30
Oh Wow! It seems like everybody here is very young. I hope that you won't take my age as being ancient! I'm going to be 78 this year! Old are the hills but I still feel young so I'll see what I can do here. I do hope my age won'te interfere with my writing?
Old Are The Hills and They Too Keep Turning Green Every Year.Originally Posted by Sydnie
the doc will still be young enough to roar...and isn't that all that matters?
ROAR!
the roar has never needed to be restored, introduction chatters...the doc's vocal chords have never been impaired...
ROAR!
Completed 22 years on this world this Saturday!
*bump*
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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There is probably room for some sort of quote here, like 'you are only as old as the woman you feel' etc!
Perhaps there should be a separate poll for how old you actually feel!
I don't like my birthdays any more - it's a good title for a poem, isn't it?
"Where love is there God is also".
Leo Tolstoy
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.
J
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.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.
But I don't have grey hair and I like Eminem, so there.
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