I feel like I've lived a long time, but I'm only almost 20.?

Question

I'm about to turn 20, but I feel like I've lived a lifetime already. Like I've been alive for hundreds of years. Could it have to do with the fact I've never lived in the same place for longer than 3 years? or the fact my dad died when I was 7, and my momma went through 2 more divorces after that? and the fact I have so many memories and have had so many experiences?

Are there any of you who feel the same?

Answer 1

I know what you mean. I've finally been in the same home for four years. B4 i moved every two to three years and sometimes only a few months in one place. Now being in one place for so long, I feel like "ok well times up where to next?" moving is like a way of life to me. I'm a year younger than you. My parents are happy though. I know from friends that death and divorce are hard. So it's completly normal for you to feel "old". At 16 i was already saying I was old!! It's probably because we've been all over the place but never really done anything. Like I feel like I should have already seen the world and that I'm already too old to do what I want. It's really a bogus thought. I can't really think of a way to fix it, but to take a trip with a good friend. Find somewhere you feel truely at home. For me it was London.

Answer 2

I am 22 and feel like i was 13 only yesterday yet i realised this year it was 10 years ago!! Memories stay within you for a long while (unforgettable ones anyway) so imagine how you will feel at 30, then 50, then 70 after dating, working, marrying, travelling, having children etc etc etc.

To me, time is also going too quickly and i want to experience everything now!! but thats me being inpatient :-p

It could have something to do with your upbringing. or it may be that you have a good memory and you time is going nice and slow and not rushing you by. Enjoy it while you are only turning 20 because soon you'll realise you're 30 and so on :-)

Answer 3

Raziel, there are some who will say you have lived other lives, that each life is a learning and growth opportunity. If it is true that each of us has lived other lives, and will live yet again in the future, then to be able to recognize that is a rare gift. If your feeling is not of this sort, but you feel that the totality of experiences has given you a fuller and perhaps richer life than others your age, this may well be accurate. Your life is whatever you have made of it. It will always be as you choose, since you can choose how to react to what the universe presents. So keep on living, and enjoying. You have many years and many opportunities. Enjoy.

Answer 4

I am twenty years old, and I already feel as though I'm an old woman! I may look young, but I've already learned so much, developed serious relationships, and gone through changes in my family and their belief systems (death, divorce, remarriage, acquisition of new property, etc).

But on a rational level, I know that twenty years or even one hundred is only the blink of an eye on the universal scale. And I know that my mind and body will continue to physically and emotionally mature as time goes by, and that I still have many experiences to come! Still, I have to remind myself that I'm only a single college student, not an old woman!

Answer 5

That is highly possible on all questions. I was moved around like that, and no daddy til mom married again. Also, you could be feeling a past life experience that was similar. What you have to do is before you go to bed pray to God and ask that all the memories from any pas lives be taken away. Then see if you feel the same. Age is different for all. If you had to grow up fast for instance, that would make you feel that way. I had to take care of two siblings from my moms second marriage. So when I got married and had kids, it was like I lived it all already.
Try to cleanse your soul, spirit and mind.

Blessings

Answer 6

I endure in recommendations examining in Carl Jung's paintings years in the past that he theory you weren't incredibly mature till you attain 35. so which you have a ordinary procedures to circulate. meanwhile - at age 19-20 - you are the appropriate soldier and hunter - you will do what you're informed via older human beings. And so young ones of nineteen and 20 have been fairly effective areas of looking communities - yet various them have been given killed via taking too lots possibility. men who're 35 and extra mature would be smarter, yet their bodies are shot in assessment to youthful men. So the 35 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous guy replaced into the chief - the extra youthful men took the hazards. And in those looking societies, you in all possibility did no longer stay lots previous 40. besides - those previous looking societies made up ninety 9.9999999% of our history as people.

Answer 7

Let me tell you with all that stress you have to be pretty depressed and tired. I went through that right after my divorce. I felt very old tired flashes of memories that went on for about a year for me.The bad memories were more than the good.Having 3 father figures would confuse the hell out of me.Well all I can say do what I did remember those bad memories and use them to your advantage to make your life a better stronger life. Your an adult now you can drop that baggage and start fresh!

Answer 8

You know what, when you starting to feel 40 when you are only 20, that is a BIG indication that you need to TAKE A BREAK.. so many things has happened in your life, that really left you "battered" and "bruised". Can you ask your mom for a vacation?

Go out with some of your very good friends! Relax, breathe, and enjoy!
Finds some things that will occupy your time and at the same time let's you have fun.

when i was at your age, i feel so alone with all the troubles that i was experiencing at that time, it has led me to some decisions that i have regretted and led me to frustrations.. But i have risen from all of it.

NOw when i am troubled, i always tell myself that there is always sunshine after every rain..

Take care of yourself!
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Answer 9

Yes I feel like each of the things you've mentioned is very stressful on a person like each starts a new segment of life. I have been trying to plant my feet some where since my husbands death. I don't seem to belong anywhere anymore. I keep starting over and over. New people new places even old friends and family don't meet my standards for how I want to be treated. I'll keep searching and so will you. It does feel like life times each section each new start.

Answer 10

This may sound weird, but here goes, Some believe in young souls and old souls, you have met people that really act like they were born yesterday, those are the young souls and there are those that have great wisdom even as little children these are the old souls, don't worry about it, Live every minute of life to it fullest and enjoy your wisdom.