I am 41 and I am still 6 years old in my heart. My body feels closer to being 100 at times, damn arthritis and the torture I put my body through when I was 2-6 years old. My super hero worshiping days and believing I could fly when I jumped from school roofs and landed on my feet and rolled over. Thing is I did not feel the pain until my 30's.

It's a bit scary knowing that another one of my lifetimes i'll be 41 years old and middle age but i try my best to enjoy my youth while i still have it.

It's usually around this stage in life (early 20's) that some people might start to think about their own mortality and their place in the world so it can be a difficult and confusing time in your life, but it's the time when you're at your most healthy and you can't let it pass you by from worrying too much about getting older a few years down the line.

life's too short for that.

I'm just over a year into my advlt, 9-to-5 life. I hope I find something else to do with myself or I die young, because I'll be in for a very boring 40 years otherwise.

I'm at an interesting point in my life right now, because I still have 2/3rds of my life ahead of me, years of potential, but not enough experience to grasp it yet. And I'm just old enough to think back and wish I had done things differently. I'm afraid that everything I'll remember fondly 30 years from now has already happened. I'm right at the cusp of that downward spiral toward my midlife crisis. I need to find a way to stay at the top for a while.

I don't really know what any of that means, but I'm posting it anyway.

Eh all i know is ill die eventually.

I loved when i turned 21, was able to drink...

I'm turning 18 soon and the thought of being an aldult freaks me out, my teenage years went by pretty quick...

I'm not afraid of dieing, but I am afraid of dieing having not done the things I wanted to.

I could die tomorrow and say that I've done everything I wanted. I became fluent in two languages, bacame a full contact fighter, married the woman of my dreams, raised a beautiful family that loves me, got to live in Japan, and I got to see Star Wars in 1977.

I can honestly say that my life is complete.

Once I feel the way you do, I'll know my life is complete. I obviously have different goals to you, but still.

I remember hitting 20 and for a moment thinking "argh, I'm no longer a teenager! "

Then I remember hitting 30 and having my mid-life crisis a decade or so early and getting very depressed.

Then I remember when the years no longer started with a "1" and having my 32nd birthday, which had always seemed a lifetime away but just started to loom unpleasantly.

Now I'm 46 and don't really care except that I sometimes have to work out how old I am because I forget. And in doing so, I once forgot that the '90s happened and thought "yay, I'm still in my 30s!" I'm not sure what was worse, the realisation that I was actually in my 40s or that The Grey Decade actually did happen after all.

But I'll eternally be a stroppy teenager, however creaky my body gets.

If you think the time goes by quickly now, just wait until you hit your 40s and 50s.

I swear it feels like last Christmas just happened, and it's already late September.

It definitely feels strange seeing people your own age that look like your stepdad from back when you were a kid. I'll always be that 7 year old on the inside.

Awesome thread.. I'm only 28 but I feel old as rocks sometimes. I think I may have gotten into a young man's sport a bit later than most.

Anyway..Have fun, please. Be kind to your knees and respectful to your elders. Happy Birthday.

I honestly feel that way now. I think I'm getting old. It's getting harder to pee, I'm always tired, today's technology and society confuses me, and I feel like time is going by really fast.

It was really weird that as I grew up the ages I used to think were mature and grown up are completely the opposite of that. When I was 7 I thought being 15 was a HUGE deal and that you would be so grown up and mature. When I reached 15 I knew that most people around me, and myself included were just dumb kids that are as insecure as they were 5 years ago. I dunno. It's weird. 13 sounded like a grown up as a kid, now 13 sounds like a young child as a (very) young advlt.

I don't really think about it, tbh. As a child I always thought growing up would svck balls as I watched the advlts [censored] and moan about work or the wife or just life in general. Told myself I'd never get like that when I was older. Still see myself as young even though I'm gonna be 24 this Halloween. I'll probably start thinking about my age when I'm so old that I can no longer wipe my own ass.

Until then? Gotta focus on making something outta myself.

I was really happy one year when everybody forgot about my birthday, didn't happen. Does that mean I don't have to count that year?

this has been every one of my birthdays for the last three years and i'm playing it completely straight. lying about your age is fantastic when you can convince yourself to believe the lie.

I'll twll you what. The feeling you get when you're working one afternoon, and the just-turned-old-enough-to-tavel-on-their-own teenagers come in, and all you can think about is what happened the year they were born, is a very humbling feeling.

WHen the kids are screaming out of the windows on the bus because it's the last day of school, I can't get mad. I used to be one of those kids once in my life. THen I grew up.

I think the most strange I've felt i whe nI was taking college classes during my last few months of High School. I would be moving down the halls, and all of a sudden, the Freshman really did looks like kids. It was time like that where you feel older than you really are.

I was in a unique time for "legal drinking." In Iowa, it was 18 for the longest time. Then, when they increased the age to 21, they "grandfathered" in all us 18 year old kids so we could still legally drink

I turned 22 last month. Nothing changed. I don't feel older, wiser, just sillier.

I'm going to be 20 in January.

Becoming an advlt isn't as scary as it seems. I'm 19 and, while I don't really have many huge responsibilities as a result of living with my parents, I hardly changed when I became 18. In fact, I'm finding I'm becoming a better person at the age of 19. I'm not going to miss my teenaged years since they were mostly miserable as a result of me developing various mental health problems that love me enough to stick around.

You have plenty of time to do the things you want. Just become a musician after the age of 27.

I don't feel strange about my age. My sister does make being the younger sister a very weird position, though. She's in her early 30's and I'm 19. You'd think I look up to her, but it's the opposite. She looks up to me. She looked up to me even when I was 16, by the way.

Wish I was 20 again.

Yeah I know what you mean. My older brother is 29 and im 24 and everyone thinks I'm the older one, and he has always looked up to me since we were teenagers for some reason (i stopped looking up to him around 10 years old).

Even my mom said that the way we interact it seems like I'm the oldest brother.

It's weird being the middle kid and be expected to act like the oldest and most responsible one.

Tomorrow's my birthday, so yeah, I can relate.

It feels strange. When I hit 18 I didn't really "feel" it other than taking the opportunity to refer to people under 18 as "children" or "kids" (I'd say "Hey kids." when greeting my underage friends) and actual kids as brats. I liked to think "man, I'm old" but not really, you know?

Now (and especially tomorrow) the fact that I'm not a kid anymore kinda hits a little hard. I still act like one, though, and I'll continue to do it. :b

However, I've also been stricken with the "what am I doing with my life" thing where I begin to compare myself with my peers and what they've done. Damn them all, they all have their life figured out and I don't! At least that's how I see it. I secretly wish they're all floundering about like I am. Even if one's in the army and traveling the world (he was somewhere in Africa last I checked, can't remember what country, though). An another will be graduating from MIAD this year. Meanwhile I barely got a year of Uni in and while I think I know what I want to major in I also think I'm making a mistake. http://31.media.tumblr.com/8df5b8c35aace6edb3f7a3631cda38fd/tumblr_nbmpau4GAa1qzarx0o1_1280.png

A fifth of a century. Hard to believe I still have around 40 to 50 more years to go (I doubt I'm living past 70), but at the same time it feels like such short time.

That happens... a lot, when I hit 18 I was confused, frankly I did not feel like an advlt, then when I became 20 I got confused because I had no idea what I wanted to do or what I was doing with my life. I decided that I'll rather be under my pillow fort, coloring.

But being an advlt happens, bills to pay, taxes to do, work to do, and suddenly you're managing your time, thinking what's worth your time and energy and what's not, arguing over X in a video game? Sorry, no can do, not worth my time, I'll rather take my dogs to the backyard, and have all three of us play with them (Those are the fun days!)

You just don't put up with things like you used to before, but that's just me.

Turning 23 this December, been getting the occasional grey hair since I was 14, yay genetics!

Time does go by fast, this year is about to end and it feels like it just started. Looking at my family history, if I don't loose my sanity, or perish somewhere else, I have around 60-70 years ahead of me. It's both scary, but at the same time before I know it, I'll be there. Yelling at kids to get off my virtual lawn, because Google is out of virtual grass seeds.

Going on 20? I'm going on twice that. It's only weird to think about because sometimes I see other people who look to be in their 50's or 60's and I find out they are only a year or two older than me.

At 20, you might just be feeling the pressure of the expectations of your 'elders' (grow up! time to start being an advlt! you're too old for video games!) and life in general. It'll pass. Go have some fun!