There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
I've always been an old soul.
I've always been a very young person with a very old soul.
I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.