When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.
And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.
When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.
Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.
I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.
I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.
I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.
I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.