Aging

[fyrna]

Within the past year, the reactions I get from strangers have gone from "You look N years old!" to "You look N+7 years old!"

I find this very disturbing (I aged 7 years in 16 months), and its messing with my sense of self-identity. I feel like now, I really have to act like a grown up, because I look like one, and I don't want to be a grown-up.

Comments

[dushai]

Can you choose to take it as a non-stressful opportunity to re-examine your long-range plans in life? If you decide you want to set about dating so that you can eventually find a worthy and compatible partner and eventually^2 get married and eventually^3 have kids, then great, you've updated your long-term plan, which we should all do every so often. If you decide that's not what you want right now, plenty of people substantially older than you (*wave*) aren't yet married and bekidded.

[shnayder]

Hmm. Bekidded is a good word.

Also, what Jon said. Nothing wrong with being a little bit of a grown up :)

[jethrien]

I'm bekidded

[fyrna]

Fair enough.

"You're a jet-setting international engineer"

I don't want to be one anymore. I want to just be a normal twenty-something who's trying to figure things out in the world of normal people. I've never been one of those. :(