do I even want to know your age?

[derien]

Is it silly to want to have communities on which nobody bothers to say anything, just so that I can see those communities on other people's profiles? Like, there could be (maybe there are, I don't know) comms for people born in particular decades just so that we could easily be reminded "Oh, right, this person is in my age group."

Or then again maybe not, because mostly I think it's better not to divide people by age. Some people are mature and sensible at a young age and some never become so. Some are born stodgy and others remain vibrantly young acting forever. So often I don't have anything at all in common with people 'my age' that usually I forget my age and am surprised to be reminded of it.

Maybe I'm just feeling old, today. And lonely.

Comments

[lifeofmendel.livejournal.com]

i've never typically identified with people in my age bracket. when i was a teen i identified better with people older than me (in fact when i was 16 i was good friends with someone in their 40s). once i got older i started to identify with people younger than me. now it's not so much an age thing as much as a life philosophy thing. i've taught some high school students that are more with it than some adults.

that sort of thing has always made more sense to me than anything else.

[derien.livejournal.com]

True for me too, though I never went so far as to call myself good friends with someone that much older - I was too insecure to ever have thought they were being anything but kind. :) I got along better with adults when I was a kid, and my best friends were two or three years younger than I was. I have one friend who's I think 15 years older than I am, and she didn't dare let me know that for a long time. I weasled that information by reading her license upside down when she was cashing a check one day, otherwise I'd never have realized it.