Is it normal that i feel old?

I'm only 20 but I feel as if I'm 60. It's like for every year I reach from now on, I'll age by 5-9 years. It's only going to get worse in my 30s and beyond. By 50, I'll probably feel like I'm over 100!

When I look at kids, I feel envious of them because I'll never have that childhood youth and energy again. I also feel sorry for them because they'll eventually be ripped apart from those years by the aging progress as I have.

I want a fountain of youth SO badly...I'd happily be a kid again for the rest of my life.

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  • disthing

    I think this is called the quarter life crisis :P

    I sort of went through the same thing at 24. Many of us mourn our childhood, or dread the idea that we've finished growing and are beginning the steady decline into old age.

    It's a common fear; the fear of running out of time, of unfulfilled dream and desires, of being expected to survive as an independent, mature adult with responsibilities, and - at a basic level - the fear of death, of our inescapable mortality.

    So I get how you feel. I feel old, too - but if I say that to anybody over 30 they think it's ridiculous, since I'm 'young' as far as they're concerned. It's probably something we'll both get over, or learn to deal with; the best thing would be learning to accept the inevitable.

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  • ez-riding

    A lot of adults have this, even I do!

    When we look at kids and think back to when times were 'easier' than what they are now, we grow envious, wanting to go back to those carefree days. Not having to worry about work, money or taxes...

    Sometimes we don't know what we had until it's gone, as they say.

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  • DubstepismyMJ

    Your body is still young, it can do a great deal of things that you wouldn't be able to do when your 60.

    Do something that makes you feel young.
    Working out, excerise and meditation is an easy tool to get your body surging with energy and life.

    Like 1 of the top ten regrets of the dying says
    "happiness is always a choice, i wish i knew that a lot earlier".

    You seriously need some perspective, take a step back from your life, and examine it.

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  • moonyrose

    We are on the same page.. I`m 21 and feel so old. I think it`s something mental too, kind of depression or something. Sometimes I can get rid of it by finding a new hobby or something really interesting to me. I think we should keep trying and maybe eventually will find a solution to stay young, because we ARE young.

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  • reminiscent

    You are 20 you are very young.
    personally I think 60 is old anything before that is not old anything after seems old to me.

    Im 26.

    The only time I ever felt old was one time I was in an elevator with some kid who was like 10 playing zelda ...we started talking and I said " when I was a kid they were black and white." I stopped and just stared at the doors as they opened to let the child out.

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  • thegypsysailor

    You really need to see a doctor. It's just not normal to feel that way at your age.

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    • I think it's more of a mental/emotional thing than a physical one. Like I'm really just a old soul in a young body.

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