Do you ever feel like an old person trapped in a young person's body?

Question

Despite my vibrant insanity, I find it difficult to relate to younger people most of the time. It's not that I don't understand, I was young once, but perhaps I just don't care anymore for the recklessness or drama.

I feel old and contemplative in my bones. I desire energy from the sunshine. My skin has a paper quality to it.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that it's hard to write a novel when the sun goes down and you've run out of candles. Especially when the title is done in finger paint.

Or maybe it's because those damn kids are on my lawn all the time and I'm running out of Tylenol.

 

Let the answers flyyyyy

nert73 · Accepted Answer

Yes. Yes, exactly. My family tells me I'm like a 30 year old from the 1800s trapped in a teenage girl's body.

Being in 7th grade drives me insane. So much drama and all the teachers seem to expect nothing but irresponsibility and disrespect and laziness. Plus, it's too easy! School is just easy for me. I'm underestimated and overestimated at the same time, while being relied on by adults and distrusted by other adults.

I'm mature and quiet and think deeply about a lot of deep stuff. Plenty has happened in my life and upbringing to make me more mature than most people my age (or any age) and I guess it's just my personality.

Prettykangaroos · Accepted Answer

Yes! When I'm at university, I'll listen to the other kids talking and I just feel like "been there, done that" already. I can't relate to people very well.

I'm an old lady! I wake up at 5 am and make black coffee, watch the news and go to school. Then I come home and watch the news some more while I drink more coffee and do homework!

linkywinky · Accepted Answer

I took a quiz yesterday and it said my mental age is 53. I know it's just a stupid quiz on the internet but I feel like it's pretty accurate. I don't have it in me to pretend to care about things that people my actual age (or younger) care about.

I FEEL U.

apexalpha · Accepted Answer

I hear you. The old soul trapped in a young persons body. It's a blessing you don't have to go through all the pain and dillemas others your age experience. The only thing negative is you get bored of their foolishness sometimes.

Illusive_Man · Accepted Answer

Well I was but now I feel YOUNG AGAIN! I FEEL REBORN! I'm ENERGETIC! I'm HYPER! And I'm FUCKING READ WRAARAHHJHHH!

mr90skid · Answer

All the time man.. :/ I feel like a childish 35 year-old who still obsesses and deeply misses his teen years from time to time. I know better but sometimes I act up just because lol. I don't relate to most people my age either but at the same time I don't really mesh with those who are older.
"I was young once", 24 is old to you? O. o

eugwara · Answer

Most of the time. I can connect to older people better and that's why I don't have too many friends. I just lack a connection to them. I can connect, but not as well as someone >20. I just like maturity a lot. I mean, I seem like the only person at my school who cares more about personality than appearance. One person on here said that she thought that I was 40. Another said that she was really surprised that I was only 14 when I had an opinion on what I want in a girl

ButterSauce · Answer

Lol you age quickly
i feel old, like an old Indian lady sitting in her rocking chair outside of the wigwam listening to the messages of nature patiently waiting for someone who needs answers to life and cultivating her life for the afterlife. .. at least 101
but i relate to younger people and older ones much better than my own age, people my age do not listen unless they are waiting for their turn to talk

CHARismatic110 · Answer

I've always felt like that. Older people would tell me that I have an old soul. Even as a kid. I wasn't interested in going outside to play often, but I'd sit on my steps with a book. And I loved listening to oldies. Hell, I'll still take oldies music over today's music in a heartbeat.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes. I don’t have a Instagram, Tumblr, or anything like that because I’m not really interested in those things. Although I like pop music, but I feel it’s ridiculous to have to keep up with it to meet some standard. And the girls I encounter usually talk about petty things, when I want to talk about life or more philosophical topics. So yes, I don’t feel like I fit in with kids my age.

Anonymous · Answer

Sometimes. I'm constantly grumping about how they keep building new things in my town. I like living in a small town! It's cute and charming! And all these new-fangled McMansions and stupid modern buildings are not vibing. And they're cutting down all the trees! Nobody cares for the woods anymore.

*cough* And I whine about the youngest teens in my apartment complex, but I mean... they egg all the buildings and draw penises on everything. I don't like it. D:

smilesarenice · Answer

I have been told I have an old soul since I was 16. I love all the decades that came before I existed. I think a lot of that has to do with the way I was raised. I am pretty sure its my past lives shining through

Fugue · Answer

Yeah, all the time. I was basically a huge fucking dweeb in high school, keeping up with current events, etc. And I was into slapstick humor, and I hated "cool" humor that high schoolers think they have.

thewanderingme · Answer

I think we had a conversation about this already. I feel young and old at different times, sometimes all at once. it's all very situational for me. (:

JohnBhoy94 · Answer

Sometimes I do... because I don't do things young people typically do.  I feel more mature than the average teenager/adolescent too.

Your_boss960 · Answer

You should tell those damn kids to stop standing in your lawn and then call the police and get a restraining order.

boatfullofpeace · Answer

Yes. I feel old and obsolete. Those are two different things but can be closely related. I feel like a stranger in a strange land.

convo_king89 · Answer

Everyone always thinks im older.. I go out with with my mom everyone everyone thinks she is my wife/sister. I've gotten physican.. everyone thinking I'm in graduate school or married.. I've gotten 30-35 this was when around 20.

DerMaisknabe · Answer

Personally, I can't relate much to younger or older people anymore. :-P But, yes, I do feel like an old fart most days.

Christine1975 · Answer

No, I feel like a young person trapped in an old person's body. 😐

PT1911 · Answer

Yeah.  Everyone is smoking, drinking, and fucking a new person every day. I just want to enjoy a drink and find a nice gal to settle down with.  Eh oh well

Kris85 · Answer

Or a young person trapped in an olds persons body 😞

SensualScribe · Answer

I have always felt this way. I find it very difficult to relate to the majority of people my age.

puncakegirl · Answer

I read your stuff and I'm like either I'm just too stupid or he's just way ahead of his years or something or just too kooky..

FlyingTurtle · Answer

Not at all. Often I feel like I'm still a child. And not in a good way.

ixi10 · Answer

No jdut the opposite. I feel much younger then my years

bananatossing · Answer

Yeah I def relate to this. As I get older I'm finding it easier to cope with people though, cause their older or getting older themselves. But it sucked when I was 18

thatcomplicatedgirl · Answer

I feel old. Physically and mentally. *Sigh* Time to take my grand kids out for a walk.

Accipiter · Answer

I don't let my age define who I am based on societal expectations.

miserybusiness · Answer

I feel like a young person trapped in an old person's body. Damn these wrinkles

Cest_La_Vie · Answer

In some situations I feel like I'm 40 like wisdom is related to age

Phoenix98 · Answer

I know exactly how you feel, I am a old soul in a young mans body lol.

theCatcherintheRye · Answer

I do. Sometimes I feel like a 10 year old as well..

JSmuve · Answer

I swear, I have the body of an old man. EVERYTHING'S FALLING APART ON ME!!! 😭😫😩

Anonymous · Answer

I've always felt that way since like nursery school. Sorry nothing to add ATM kind of hectic here :)

Anonymous · Answer

No I feel like a forever young person trapped in a slowly aging body. I don't want the body to get older.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm like 30-40 year old in 21 y/o body... sometimes 10 y/o ^_^

NExPats12 · Answer

Yes I do! I already have arthritis in the knees, and non stop neck and back aches. tired a lot too, doc says I'm normal though.

Klaatu51 · Answer

only when i'm sick... i feel like 70 yo :-/

findingdreamland · Answer

Nope. I have just turned 15 :P

CoverGuy · Answer

Definitely... it hurts.

Tokana · Answer

The opposite is true of me.

Chick180 · Answer

Usually not, today I do though.

Unit1 · Answer

I always feel old. Always :(

Michael_Rc46 · Answer

You think wayy too much...

GoldCobra · Answer

No, I feel like my own age

Anonymous · Answer

I'm the opposite, I feel like a young person trapped in a old persons body.

oldanddecrepid · Answer

Yup! hahaha

Ihav2fart · Answer

Story of my life

Toadette · Answer

I know, I am.-.

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