I chose 'B'. Things change with age.
1) You gain more knowledge, experience and, hopefully, wisdom. Mentally, I'm the same age as every age I have been so far. I've experienced 3, 5, 10, 16, 21, ...
I can relate to them all. I still feel like my young, adventurous, surfing, skateboarding, rocking, partying self mentally. But when was younger, I couldn't relate to being older because I didn't yet have that perspective. Whenever I've looked back at myself, I've realized how naive I was in many ways. That still happens. Even if I look back to last year, I realize how much I have learned since then. So there is a mental advantage to being older. But in some sense, age IS just a number when it comes to relating to others.
2) There are obviously physical differences when we age. In that case, it's impossible to deny that age is just a number. People no longer see me as the cool, bitchen dude that I was at 25 or 35.
Yeah it is, itās more on a persons out look on life.
Iāve worked with people who are 20 and act and go through life as if 60, pipe and slippers.
I definitely donāt do what I should do at my age,
I still party, video games, have a laugh and have fun,
itās about being positive and also critically understanding that anyone irrespective of Age has a voice, they could be 12 or 92, itās about listening and letting them speak.
Iāve had enough talking to from my daughter to understand that an older age is not always a thing of being right lol.
100 years later youāll be dead, Iāll be dead and anybody you love and know now will be dead.
How little we are compared to the universe, itās funny to divide people into old and young, when we are all just like children compared to how old the universe is.
So, yes, age is just a number because youāll blink and youāll be 45 and youāll still feel like 21.
The tissues that make up our bodies might keep growing old, but in our hearts we are all that 17 years old boys and girls that we used to be, just with a bit more experience.
I believe that there is a lot to be said about age and they are not equal. As we age we grow and become more mature as human beings. There is a vast difference between age 40 and 18. Age is much more than just a number.
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u Since it's just a number, can I trade in 67 for 17?
It's complicated for me. My childhood forced me to mentally and emotionally grow up fast. So mentally and emotionally in a lot of ways I was a adult before middle school and kept getting older in the respect due to different experiences. So I hit a point where I was physically in my teens but on a mental and emotional level I was already in my mid 40's or early 50's at that point.
So I'm going to agreeing. Because life experience can age a person much faster then time itself can in some respects.
It does not matter how much you workout or eat right or even get plastic surgery everyone gets old. You can pretend it is just a number but sooner or later you will get all these old person ailments. High cholesterol, osteo arthritis, bifocals and hearing aids. You find that you cannot physically do all the things you used to do and nothing works as good as it once did.
I used to disagree. Especially when I agreed with people who say a 20 year old canāt have anything in common with someone 40 years older than her other than him paying for everything. Now Iāve experienced it I know that is fault Iāve been friends with my much older friend for two years he is my best friend and he is 43 years older than me. And we just keep finding things we like in common. Heās never sent me any money either just always has my back
Age correllates with life stages, cultural references and shared experiences that can make it easier or harder to connect with someone. So while large age gaps can technically work, realistically the wider they are, the harder it is. And the younger someone is, the more those gaps matter.
I think this is something pedophiles say to excuse being pedophiles. I'm 35 and even I feel weird talking to a 20 year old adult woman.
It's annoying because it's not telling the whole story. When people say "age is just a number" they actually mean "age is just a number as long as you're of legal age and not a senior citizen".
It's just yet another thing people like to say because it makes them sound open-minded when in reality don't actually follow through with it. Just like the whole "looks don't matter" nonsense.
Age is not just a number though. Age is a number based on the measure of one's growth and development, you wouldn't just stop development if one took away your number. And the development is very clear from baby to old.
It depends. Applied to an age gap between 20 and 40? Up to them. Applied to people taking on big decisions like marriage, jobs, etc, very young? That can work out. But I often here it in a pedophilic way and that's definitely not okay.
For an individual and how they feel, I completely agree.
Regarding adult relationships... I agree to a point. But there's a limit. Like anyone dating another the same age as their kids.
Lastly, it's an absolute lie and fighting words when it comes anywhere near kids.
Kids are off limits ALWAYS!
That is only for your mental state. However you cannot deny reality. Aging is a natural process; after every decade you realize there are things you cannot do that you could do before.
Not a problem. I have friends who are in their 30's and we go along well. It depends on how mature both individuals are not the age. I'm saying about overall life not for only dating.
Seems like most who say it are old men saying it to young girls. I'll admit when I was a teenager I didn't see anything weird about old men lusting after women my age but as I get older it seems more and more parasitic.
Disagree. Age is a indicator if your mind can understand and body heal quicker or slower.
Age is time, and as time goes on your mind gets more sluggish and your body tends to become weaker, uglier then you die.
I think it should only be used in a playful way during playful conversations. Not to actually support someone's argument during a serious one.
as long as they're legal - i would say 18 for me
but again, huge age gaps are really weird to me
As long as they are not underage. What difference does it make..
Most men on here donāt care about my age and start flirting with me
I don't think age is just a number when it comes to dating both people have to be of legal age.
I like your question, but I'm barfing at the pedophiles that answered.
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