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Huh. I was just looking at someone's birth and death dates, and caught myself in the following succesion of thoughts: "So he was a child during XXX, a teenager when YYY happened, middle-aged for ZZZ, and a grown-up when he died, not having reached old-age." Waitaminute. When did my definition of "grown up" get pushed to age 65? (Actually it was probably a glitched noun-grab by my verbal subsystem when I looked for a phrase that meant "past middle-age but not yet what I think of as old". But I was still startled to catch myself in it. What if I really did constantly change my definition of "grownup" to "significantly older than I am"? I can just see myself at 80, complaining about 70 year olds and referring to them as "kids". But it would be one way to achieve the Peter Pan state of never growing up, right?)

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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 10:47pm on 2004-11-23
I'm fairly sure I do that. Grown up is older than I am. People younger than I am constantly surprise me by having kids.
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posted by [personal profile] coraline at 05:20am on 2004-11-24
i know i do that...
 
posted by [identity profile] puzzledance.livejournal.com at 06:52am on 2004-11-24
Someone I know once said, "Old is about 10 years older that I am." At the time, I was amused. Now I'm starting to think he was right.
 
posted by [identity profile] still-asking.livejournal.com at 10:30am on 2004-11-24
Old used to be 10 years older than me, then I noticed how it kept sneaking up on me, so I changed it to 15 years older.
 
posted by [identity profile] puzzledance.livejournal.com at 04:12pm on 2004-11-24
Using that logic, "old" could keep getting pushed farther and farther out, couldn't it?

I have to admit that when I posted my original comment, I suddenly thought, "Wait, he said that over 10 years ago. Does that mean I'm old?"
 
posted by [identity profile] still-asking.livejournal.com at 04:19pm on 2004-11-24
Using that logic, "old" could keep getting pushed farther and farther out, couldn't it?

One can hope.

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