Do you feel comfortable sharing your age? When people ask you do you tell them or lie?
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I lie about my age don't feel comfortable sharing it
I dont mind I tell my age
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22-25, F
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@MarkPaul I don't mention my age because it makes no difference how many times the Earth has orbited the Sun since one's body has been on the planet. The goodness of a person, their personality or intentions, their caring, consideration and kindness, or, their [i]ill[/i] intent, have nothing to do with a number. People are too often judged by their age. It's as much a measure for division and creating differences among peoples as borders between countries. Borders are visible only on maps. Age is visible only on calendars. A person's character is timeless.
PhoenixPhail · M
@MarkPaul "coming in for interrogation." 😂
Yes, I see what you mean. To help clarify; I'm proud of the station at which I've arrived resulting from my experiences over time. It has more to do with the growth of my being-ness within a time continuum. To say, "I'm proud of my age," is really a misnomer. But I need to put it in terms other people are familiar with. So, I say, I'm proud of my age.
So many concepts are expressed poetically and through figures of speech. For example; when someone says, "turn off the kettle," you learn from observation the connotation of what that means: Turn off the heat source heating the contents of the kettle. There's no mechanism in the kettle to turn off. And yet, when someone says, turn off the kettle, there's no debate. You just know what that means.
I'm using, "I'm proud of my age," in the same way. Although, I understand the connotation to which I'm referring is much less familiar than those commonly used, such as, "turn off the kettle."
There are [i]universally[/i] common connotations and figures of speech on which [i]everyone[/i] agrees.
All people agree the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. That's very poetic. The [b]de[/b]notative understanding (from a physics and astronomical point of view) is; people are positioned at points on the Earth. The Earth is constantly rotating on its axis. As the Earth rotates, it brings you around to face the Sun, and, as it continues its rotation, takes you away from it. So, it's not really the [i]Sun[/i] that's rising and setting, it's YOU. But, unless people understand it in those terms, for me to tell people the Sun doesn't [i]really[/i] rise in the East and set in the West, would naturally lead them to thinking I'm a mental case.
So. In [i]connotative[/i] terms, yes, I'm proud of my age, which has to do with where I am with myself which has developed over time - not how many times the Earth has orbited the Sun since I started my Earthly journey.
Yes, I see what you mean. To help clarify; I'm proud of the station at which I've arrived resulting from my experiences over time. It has more to do with the growth of my being-ness within a time continuum. To say, "I'm proud of my age," is really a misnomer. But I need to put it in terms other people are familiar with. So, I say, I'm proud of my age.
So many concepts are expressed poetically and through figures of speech. For example; when someone says, "turn off the kettle," you learn from observation the connotation of what that means: Turn off the heat source heating the contents of the kettle. There's no mechanism in the kettle to turn off. And yet, when someone says, turn off the kettle, there's no debate. You just know what that means.
I'm using, "I'm proud of my age," in the same way. Although, I understand the connotation to which I'm referring is much less familiar than those commonly used, such as, "turn off the kettle."
There are [i]universally[/i] common connotations and figures of speech on which [i]everyone[/i] agrees.
All people agree the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. That's very poetic. The [b]de[/b]notative understanding (from a physics and astronomical point of view) is; people are positioned at points on the Earth. The Earth is constantly rotating on its axis. As the Earth rotates, it brings you around to face the Sun, and, as it continues its rotation, takes you away from it. So, it's not really the [i]Sun[/i] that's rising and setting, it's YOU. But, unless people understand it in those terms, for me to tell people the Sun doesn't [i]really[/i] rise in the East and set in the West, would naturally lead them to thinking I'm a mental case.
So. In [i]connotative[/i] terms, yes, I'm proud of my age, which has to do with where I am with myself which has developed over time - not how many times the Earth has orbited the Sun since I started my Earthly journey.