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#1: How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Is it a non-answer if I say that not knowing how old I am would cause me to believe that such a determination is irrelevant?
As long as I can remember, people have called me "an old soul". When I was young, I didn't really know what that meant, but I thought I should be proud of it. People would tell me, and I'd puff my chest out and beam.
I'm not sure if us "old souls" have one solid definition, but for me, I think of it as something allowing me to identify with something bigger than I am. Sometimes it seems like I feel things I never experienced. I know things no one has told me. I ask questions that no one can answer. Sometimes I think "maybe I learned that in some other life."
I'm not suggesting that reincarnation exists, or that I even believe in it, but I do find that some people, me, my rogue eleven year olds, TresPageJr and TF, Queen's daughter, Jip, my father, and his father (and probably his father too) all have some sort of knowledge, experience, understanding that is far beyond our own years.
Age is a measure of time, and time may not be manipulated. By contrast, how old or young someone is measures something else that isn't tangible. For that reason, I reject the idea of chronology, and instead prefer to think of "how old" people are by wisdom that's inexplicable.
And so I ask, how old would YOU be if you didn't know how old you are?
#1: How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Is it a non-answer if I say that not knowing how old I am would cause me to believe that such a determination is irrelevant?
As long as I can remember, people have called me "an old soul". When I was young, I didn't really know what that meant, but I thought I should be proud of it. People would tell me, and I'd puff my chest out and beam.
I'm not sure if us "old souls" have one solid definition, but for me, I think of it as something allowing me to identify with something bigger than I am. Sometimes it seems like I feel things I never experienced. I know things no one has told me. I ask questions that no one can answer. Sometimes I think "maybe I learned that in some other life."
I'm not suggesting that reincarnation exists, or that I even believe in it, but I do find that some people, me, my rogue eleven year olds, TresPageJr and TF, Queen's daughter, Jip, my father, and his father (and probably his father too) all have some sort of knowledge, experience, understanding that is far beyond our own years.
Age is a measure of time, and time may not be manipulated. By contrast, how old or young someone is measures something else that isn't tangible. For that reason, I reject the idea of chronology, and instead prefer to think of "how old" people are by wisdom that's inexplicable.
And so I ask, how old would YOU be if you didn't know how old you are?
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