am i old or young?

Question

i am almost 23 ? where do i fit in am i an adult or still a 'youth' ppl say i look young and i feel 19, when are u considered old as in kids and a family and when are you still allowed to be 'irrisponsable

Answer 1

you are only as old or young as you feel.

Answer 2

Old is relative. Some people are old physiologically when they are in their 40's, while others may have the constitution of a 40 year old while in their 70's or even 80's. I personally have an aunt who just turned 91 and she still lives by herself and does nearly everything for herself. She still has the mindset of a woman half her age, and I expect her to be around for quite some time yet. I think it's significant that the average age for humans has increased rather tremendously in the last century. Less than a decade ago we had a woman in France, named Jeanne Louise Calment, who passed away at the confirmed age of 122. She was born in February 1875 and died in August 1997, I believe. The woman actually knew the painter Vincent van Gogh, who passed away in 1890 when Calment was 14, more than 100 years before her own passing.

So, don't think you are old. You still have plenty of time to get there.

Answer 3

As a 22 year old, you have stopped physical growth by now, and all of your adult teeth should have erupted. On the other hand, complete ossification of your skeleton has not been achieved. Your clavicle, in particular, still has several years left before it fuses. So you could argue either way, I guess. I don't think I'd every call a 22 year old "old" though.

Still, a 22 year old is responsible for his actions under the law, and I would personally find an irresponsible 22 year old in my family a pain in the hindquarters.

Answer 4

You're a young adult. I turned 50 last month and I still feel very young and look younger than 50 so where do I fit in? Is 50 the new 40?

Also it isn't the age, its the milage. How much have you accomplished at 23?

To me old would be in the 70s?

Answer 5

It depends on your culture. Many cultures determine adult status by whether or not you have completed certain initiation rites. In our society it is usually 18 to be considered young adult. There is a huge gray area between that and "adult" but I would probably say 30 is "adult" unless you appear to have a huge grasp on responsibility and have a different lifestyle than most of your peers. Enjoy being young.

Answer 6

I think it depends on your family's socioeconomic status. President Bush, for example, was still having "youthful indiscretions" at nearly 40 - getting drunk and driving his car. Many of the "full-ride" college students I've known, whose main problem seems to be hitting up Mom for more pizza money as they laze through college and/or grad school, are your age but are clearly *not* adults. However, that leaves the rest of us, who are pretty much on their own after graduating from high school. Involved, loving family aside, I was clearly an adult by about age 18. I was in my own little apartment, going to college, paying bills, etc. I got married at the age of 20 to a fantastic guy, quite happily, while my rich-kid friends were either gushing over the brand new cars that "daddy" had bought them or chiding me for "losing my independance" SO young.

This is kind of the problem. The "pizza money" twenty somethings are much more visible, leaving our society wondering if a woman of 25 with 2 children (like myself) is ready to be trusted with the very serious responsibility of renting a car. The fact that I've been supporting myself and my little family since I was out of high school at age 17 - 8 years ago - doesn't seem to register.

Of course, extremly poor young people have it even worse. I know one young woman who was really acting as a head of household at about age 15, as her exhausted single mother was working two jobs, and couldn't be home to run things or care for my friend's younger sister. Imagine her shock when she is told she can't buy a lighter at the local walgreens, because she might use it to smoke cigarettes. She loves candles, (and doesn't have the income or the desire to smoke) but mostly she was irate that she could keep a house clean, fix dinner for herself and her sister, finish homework, alone, and society still insited she was an overgrown infant. :-) Just a thought.

Answer 7

You're only an adult when your responsibilities to other people take precedence to your own self interests. This can mean family, co-workers, or just friends.

There are a lot of old people who are not adults. There are also some very young adults.

Answer 8

You are a "young adult". You are still expected to make mistakes, but at your age, you probably know they're mistakes _before_ you make them, and so you're generally held more responsible for the resulting consequences.

At the age of 23, you should also be able to read and write in your native language with more skill than you are currently demonstrating.

Answer 9

As soon as you start not looking forward to your birthday (aside from the presents and parties of course) you are old. You are young as long as you look forward to getting older. Remember when you were 15 and you so were looking forward to when you are 16 then 18 then 21. your so excited about it that you even say im 15 and half. 15 and 9 months. once you stop doing that your getting old.

Answer 10

I'm 22, and I consider myself an adult, and so does everyone around me. I don't have a family or kids or anything ( Just a fiance) , but I have been supporting myself for a while now.

Answer 11

You are young physically as long as you are still growing! You will continue to grow until age 30 where the last remaining portion of your body is full grown, and that is your head! Mentally you are young as long as you continue to learn! So many people stop learning so damn early! Keep expanding your possibilities! Keep your options open! Don't complete any rites of passage and you'll be forever young!