Do you feel a little "immature" for your age?

[zanne]

I've been feeling this way for a long time now and I'm wondering if it's just me. I'm not talking about feeling "youthful". I mean plain old immature. I always thought that, once I got old, I'd feel more growup. I'm 56 and it hasn't happened yet.

Please tell me I'm not alone in this!

[BOSSHOG]

1. I'm 54

and find it therapeutic to reach out for immaturity. I think there is a different view of being in one's mid-50's and feeling grownup today then when we were in high school observing the dinosaurs in our lives who were then in their mid-50's roaming the planet on the verge of extinction. Leave the grownup stuff to young folks who have yet to find themselves.

[RoyGBiv]

2. Well, let's see ...

I'm almost 40, and I got some Play-Doh for my birthday.

And I play with it.

So, ummm, yeah. :)

[zanne]

3. I got some Play-Doh for Christmas!

A joke gift from someone who had his "worrying stone" borrowed too many times. What he doesn't know is that I love to play with that stuff. Just squishing it between my fingers releases tension.

[carlyhippy]

36. that is the best smell in the world!!!!! Playdoh

Carly

[graywarrior]

4. I'm so immature it's a little pathetic

I try acting like an adult....I just can't pull it off.

[zanne]

5. Yeah. I do alot of acting. nt

[DarkTirade]

6. When I was young, I tried to be all mature and stuff.

Then around 8th grade I realized that I wasn't having any FUN.

So ever since then I've been as immature as I wanna be.

[joneschick]

7. you're only young once, but you can be immature forever

so says my husband. :hi:

[zanne]

25. Those are words to live by! nt

[Chan790]

8. Yes.

I'm a 28 year old perv going on 15. I used to be 24 and act like I was 13. At this rate, I might be young adult at 37.

[Iggo]

9. I asked my Grandpa...

..."When did you finally feel that you were a grown-up?"

He said, "I'll let you know."

[mainegreen]

10. I never felt growing up or acting 'mature' in some areas made any sense.

Who gets to tell me what I do for fun? What I find funny? How I get to behave.

As long as I make sure to take serious the important things in life (money, health, my relationships with my family) I feel I have a RIGHT to be as foolish as I want. Society and it's expectations be damned.

I'll be watching kids cartoons tonight, thank you.

[old mark]

11. Yes, it's just you, you should be ashamed...

...I used to try to be mature, but I never cared for it much, so now I just do what I feel like and don't worry about it.
The way I see it, I don't know how much time I have left to fool around, and I'd hate to waste it by being serious.

Mark (almost 61)

[lost-in-nj]

43. YES!!!!

I agree


1000%

never waste a day

moment


:hi:



lost

[Fran Kubelik]

12. totally

:nods:

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. You're not alone in this.

[Dogtown]

14. You're alone.

we're all, all alone...


:cry:

[bif]

15. I'm a 12-year old locked up in a 53-year old's body

Drives my wife and kids crazy sometime.

[zanne]

26. Do you think it's more acceptable for men?

I have a great big belly laugh and I use it often. It isn't really "ladylike", y'know?

[marzipanni]

41. Belly laughter...it's as good as exercise

google "Laughter is good as exercise" and you'll get 15,100,000 results, among them Gupta teaching a rather contagious laughing exercise "for the heart and mind":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPa3OLx8KOM

[unpossibles]

16. yes - I totally have not forgotten to have fun and enjoy life

:D

[Critters2]

17. I'll be 50 in September, and I still feel like I'm waiting to grow up.

I sometimes feel like it's only a matter of time before everyone around me realizes I'm not the adult I pretend to be. But so far, I seem to be fooling everyone!

[Guava Jelly]

18. oh yeah

Very sophomoric

[Sequoia]

19. You are not alone.

I like kid stuff like Hello Kitty and Chococat (hard to find). Sometimes I skip down imagined cobble-"stoned" streets 'cause I'm feeling groovy. I see cute young guys and my daughter tells me I'm too old but then I say just because I think El Capitan is beautiful doesn't mean I want to climb it. I avoid looking in the mirror as much as possible.

[zanne]

27. Sequoia, your're doomed.

You sound alot like me.

[Sequoia]

32. Hells bells....!!! Party down!

[marzipanni]

45. Skipping, like laughter, is very good for you!

Here's an article about a woman who started a skipping movement-
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/07/13/DD93533.DTL
and a You Tube of her getting people to join her-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpRy1iu__3Y

[Sequoia]

49. No way! Holy moly.

[devilgrrl]

20. I still behave like a 12 year old on occasion.

no, you're not alone.

[texas1928]

21. yep

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7867653

[zanne]

30. Oh yeah? "The Big Chill" as protrayed by bunnies.

http://www.starzbunniestheater.com/players/bunny-channels/classics.html

[guitar man]

22. a little immature?

no, I'm totally immature, a big kid from top to bottom! :evilgrin:

[Mad_Dem_X]

23. More than a little

I'm 41, but sometimes I feel like I'm still 12 or 13. I have a big collection of Barbie dolls and I still get crushes on celebrities.

[GRLMGC]

24. Yep!

I'm only 22 and I know my feelings are really irrational but I just feel age creeping up on me. I'll be 23 in November and I don't feel like I've accomplished anything in my life. I don't even know what I want to do. I'm torn between pursuing my dream and just getting a steady job and making a comfortable living. I should have made that decision awhile ago but I'm entirely too indecisive. I know I have a lot of time but I kind of feel like a failure.

[Fox Mulder]

28. No...

I think we're allowed to act like a kid every now and then.

[RadiationTherapy]

29. I masturbate every day! nt

[Arugula Latte]

53. Thanks for the update!

:hi:

[HEyHEY]

31. Yes, thank god

[Left Is Write]

33. I don't feel immature for 24, no.

[unpossibles]

34. I still make - and laugh at - "your mom" jokes

you tell me.

[carlyhippy]

35. It has been said that if you don't "grow up" by aged 40....you don't have to

so be immature, it's your right!

[LaurenG]

37. Yes, especially when I was posting in GD:P at the end of the primaries

:(

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

38. I'm in my second childhood.

I figure I'm so old, I'm roughly 14 and aging backwards.

I haven't got a problem with that.

[unsavedtrash]

39. Mostly yes, but at times I feel so old for 39.

edited because TMI

but you are not alone.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

40. I married late and

never had kids. Some people think I am not yet a grownup. Fuck 'em.

[lost-in-nj]

42. not sure immature is the word

younger!!! YES!
well maybe in some aspects I am immature

I will be 50 in Nov.

but act like 35-40

sometimes a teenager

is there anything wrong with that???


NAH!!!!!!!!!!



lost

:hi:

[Redstone]

44. I'm close to your age, and feel and act (and look, some say) like I'm about

mid-thirties. Doesn't bother me at all.

Redtone

[Inchworm]

46. Most definatly

but I think butterflies are cool...

:hug:

[Rhythm]

47. I joke around about being "21 with 21 years experience"

But that really is how i see myself. I may be physically older, but my personality is no different than it was in my late teens/early 20s.

If that's immature, then so be it... i could care less. I look at it as a feeling of immortality.

[LaraMN]

48. Only in my best moments.

:thumbsup:

[frickaline]

50. hell yes. I'm 37 and I still like anime and cartooooons

And I post things like "hell yeah" and "death note ftw!!"

[LanternWaste]

51. I've been 25 for almost twenty years now...

I've been 25 for almost twenty years now...

Last weekend, I yelled at a shovel from almost twenty minutes. Thank goodness I was alone and was the only to see or hear my pique, but still...

Also, about once a month, I get online on a Friday night to play an RPG with some friends I've known since high school. There is simply no possible way I can justify *that* as a mature thing to do.

You're absolutely not alone. I think everyone's there to one degree or another-- some are just better at hiding it than we are :)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

52. Good grief, yes...

I'm 21 but I still go nuts over Disney princess stuff, watch old animated movies in the Disney vein, and stubbornly hold on to stuff from my childhood. And play with kids' toys when I get the chance. :P

[ikojo]

54. I'm going to be 45 in a few hours....

I look around at my co-workers who are my age and think...I don't dress like them, I don't live like them (most of them are married and have had children)...I have completely different interests.

[ThatsMyBarack]

55. I do every day.

I'm not married.

I have no children (other than my two four-footed, pointy-eared, long-tailed ones).

I don't have a "real" job.

I could eat mac&cheese every damn day (but I don't).

I like a bowl of ice cream before I go to bed.

I wish my local classic TV station would include The Electric Company in their line-up.

I sleep with stuffed animals (but they are only there for decoration).

I can't understand a lot of the arguments that go on in GD and GD/P.

[leftofthedial]

56. only about 30 years or so

[Adsos Letter]

57. no...no, I don't...

even though people try to convince me of it every day... :woohoo: