[Poll] Age Appropriate Clicking

[thefourthvine]

I'm reading a book that, well, it's good, but I'm getting that feeling I sometimes get, the sneaking suspicion that I am reading not essays but anthropology. Or xenology. My point is, the person who wrote this book is not like me. I'm pretty sure we're members of entirely different species, in fact.

And she keeps saying she talked to all her friends, and they all agree, and my basic thought there is, hey, maybe you should make some more friends. A social circle is more entertaining when you don't agree on everything.

Then it occurred to me that I should maybe check out her points of universal agreement with my friends (and acquaintances and people randomly browsing friends friends who are yearning to click on some buttons). So. A poll. Help me out, here, people, I am really truly curious.

Poll #6029 You're only as old as you click.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 721

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How old do you feel? Write in the number.

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How old are you?

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Under 13
0 (0.0%)

13 - 18
8 (1.1%)

19 - 24
136 (18.9%)

25 - 30
217 (30.1%)

31 - 40
238 (33.1%)

41 - 50
81 (11.2%)

51 - 60
37 (5.1%)

61 - 70
2 (0.3%)

71 - 80
0 (0.0%)

Over 80
1 (0.1%)

Now, how does the first number compare to the second?

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I feel younger than I am.
471 (65.9%)

I feel exactly the age that I am.
151 (21.1%)

I feel older than I am.
93 (13.0%)

Which is most true for you?

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I'm pretty happy with where I am in my life right now.
491 (68.8%)

Overall, I'm not so happy with where I am in my life right now.
223 (31.2%)

Which is most true for you?

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I've accomplished most of what I'd hoped to by now.
154 (21.5%)

I haven't accomplished most of what I hoped to by now.
301 (42.1%)

I never really had those kinds of hopes or plans.
260 (36.4%)

You can take a pill to look twenty years younger. (The way you, yourself, looked 20 years ago, I mean.) This does not affect health or functioning, just looks. Do you?

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Sure!
131 (18.2%)

No.
589 (81.8%)

Gender?

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Female
680 (94.3%)

Male
19 (2.6%)

Other
22 (3.1%)

Comments

[greyeyes]

My answer of 18 (I'm 25) is due to where I am in my life right now - despite a degree and plans, I'm living at home working a part-time job with no idea what exactly I want to do with my life. And my mother still begs me to clean my room (otherwise she's awesome, so yes, I'm fantastically lucky in that respect). So yeah.

Now if that pill made me 5 years old so I could have no responsibilities other than learning the alphabet and to count, I'd definitely consider it!

[sophisted]

This. Same age, and I feel just about as young. Living at home really takes it out of you. The end of a long-term relationship really destroyed any "life plans" I had made and I have a degree I can't use because it's only good for teaching and there's a hiring freeze on educators where I am.

And when I moved back in with my parents, I had the added benefit of never having driven before and I just obtained a drivers license and now everyone is making me feel like a teenager again every time they mention driving or cars or how cool I must find it to be suddenly independent and mobile. Hi! I had been living on my own for over 5 years! I wasn't independent then? Mobility wasn't something I had just because I lived in a city I could ride bikes instead of drive? Gee.

*sigh* Sorry to vent on your comment.

[greyeyes]

Feel free!

LOL, my degree is Elementary Ed. I had a job for 2 years (thank god for the savings), and then wasn't rehired (ie basically fired) and now I'm pretty sure I can't deal with the paperwork/stress/all-consumingness/behavoir issues that is me teaching. So now what? :(

[thefourthvine]

I don't know. I look at my kid, and, okay, two and a half looks awesome. But also, just, being so small, and people picking you up and toting you where they want you to go, and - being two is also HARD. And I bet being five is also in the hard-but-awesome category.

Although nothing like being a teenager. I'm not sure what it would take to get me to go back through that. It's hard to imagine what could be worth it. *shudders*

[greyeyes]

I would totally try being a teenager again IF I went with my current mind intact. I would be somewhat better at it now:)