What age does your brain think you are?

Question

I'm 57 and yet I can't believe I'm pushing 60. My brain thinks I'm still in my twenties. I'm a teacher and I have 2 grandbabies so I'm around kids alot and I believe that keeps me young. I get surprised when my body tells me to slow down. How old does your brain think you are?

Answer 1

I think my brain stuck in the neutral position when I was 28. My warranty ran out at 50 and parts I didn't even know I had quit functioning. Now in the early 60s I am beginning my second time of being a recycled teenager. I can't do some of the things I used to like climb trees or rocks, sit on a horse for 8 hrs., buck bales of hay, or remember when ,what or why I went into a room for something. I can however do some things still quite well like swim, fish, walk, garden, chase the dogs (you know all the important things like those). I haven't forgotten how to laugh at myself and with others. I have forgotten old hurts. God is more important now, I wish He had been then. Family is more important than friends now. Anyway whatever the age I have lived and cried and enjoyed it all and hope to enjoy all that is yet to be.

Answer 2

Depends when you ask. My mother says I am 57, and I feel pretty much in touch with my teenage grandsons. The family secret is out that I was a freak and saw groups from the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burden when he was still an Animal, James Brown before Caucasians got up the nerve to go to a Black concert, you get the picture. I am teaching my 8 year old ground up training on a horse I bought for her last year, and when I see the look on her face over a victory, I feel like her teenage big sister. When she goes to bed, I feel 75 when I am rubbing out cramps on muscles that I was unaware of until they went into a spasm. Now my oldest daughter turning 39, that concerns me because my brain sometimes tells me she is going to catch up to me and I worry just how bad was that crap I took in the 60's.

Answer 3

I'm 53 but my brain says I'm bout 27. This was the last time before babies, marriage, divorce, middle age spread, single parenthooh and all the rest of that crap. I have a 7 year old grandchild who lives with me and I feel like she is my own child. I's always a shock when I have to introduce her as my grandchild. And it's even a bigger shock when I go clothes shopping and I have to look in the misses sizes instead of size 9.

Answer 4

I went to college 30 years after high school graduation. since there were younger " kids " going to college had a much different idea as to what life was all about. even some of the professors were " kids " so was definitely a unique experience, but enjoyed the challenge of keeping up with them. now I can't stop trying to gain more wisdom and knowledge. I'm hooked like a drug addict on learning.

Answer 5

I LOVE that line..."Aging is mandatory. Growing up is optional." Now THAT just says it all doesn't it!

I can remember suffering from a two week long depression about a month after I turned 25, when it dawned on me that I was ONE QUARTER OF A CENTURY OLD!

Remembering that time, I waited with trepidation for my half century mark to hit five years ago. Well, it came, and it went, and it didn't even make a blip on my personal screen.

So, to answer your question, I can only surmise that my mind is stuck somewhere after that period of angst over turning 25, and somewhere BEFORE I got truly old, because I never feel old inside, even when my arthritis is giving me hell!

Answer 6

I am 19 but my brain thinks that I am 7

Answer 7

That is the tragedy with all us seniors, we refuse to recognise our age, for mentally we are still somewhere in our twenties and thirties. Well, I'll continue to call myself young as long as I am alert and alive to my surroundings and receptive to new ideas. I'll ignore all those aches, pains and other physical disabilities that so frequently remind me of my true age.

Answer 8

My brain thinks I am 20 years younger than I am. How does life get away from us like this?? Not fair!

Answer 9

Wow! what a question.

Man my brain sometimes thinks I'm like 10yo...i can get that goofy sometimes. And then other times i think my brain rates me as 30yo cuz i can work and study fine with older people.

I am really 18yo.

Answer 10

well, i'm scatter brained like a really old lady, but quick to act like a preteen. i'd say that during any given day my brain age runs through the full spectrum.