#18 pangor 25 Apr 2005 16:16
It should not be a suprise that Centarian's view on age corresponds with my own. All the same, I would like to state my view on the subject. It may sound trite however I belive that it is true that a person is effectivly only as old as they think of themselves as being. While our bodies may show signs of the time that we have spent in this world, our spirits are ageless and can exist at of any age that the person want to be.
Years ago, Centarian stopped counting the years and is still in many ways in her twenties. As for me, when I was a teenager (and before), I felt and behaved as though I was in my twenties or early thirties. Some of my grade school teachers used to try to insult me by saying that I was an old man in a child's body. Well in many ways they were right. Now that I am past my twenties I still see myself as being of that age. When I have to provide my age I have to stop and compute it first, because that number has no meaning for the way that I see myself, so I don't bother remembering it.
Pangor