> I think there is something narcissistic about saying you aren't really the age you are. You're saying that you're different. That you're really more mature (if you're claiming an older age) or that you've hung on to more of your youth (if you're claiming a younger age). Almost everyone feels that they're mature or youthful or both.
I would read the OP rumbling more as "Everyone has an age it longs to match" and not as if you fooled yourself thinking you're not your age.
Having your eternal age at 40 would mean, holding yourself to the standard of your ideal 40 something man/woman for the most of your life.
That would also mean trying hard to meet this standard for 40 years, swallow your disapointment when you reach your 40s and are still far from the image you had of it, and using the rest of your years to reach this ideal afterwards.
This is of course an naive and exagerated view, and as usual with Scott Adams the idea is just to have thoughts provoked by the assertion. But the idea of a "perfect" age you long to match rings true enough to my ears.
> I think there is something narcissistic about saying you aren't really the age you are. You're saying that you're different. That you're really more mature (if you're claiming an older age) or that you've hung on to more of your youth (if you're claiming a younger age). Almost everyone feels that they're mature or youthful or both.
I would read the OP rumbling more as "Everyone has an age it longs to match" and not as if you fooled yourself thinking you're not your age.
Having your eternal age at 40 would mean, holding yourself to the standard of your ideal 40 something man/woman for the most of your life. That would also mean trying hard to meet this standard for 40 years, swallow your disapointment when you reach your 40s and are still far from the image you had of it, and using the rest of your years to reach this ideal afterwards.
This is of course an naive and exagerated view, and as usual with Scott Adams the idea is just to have thoughts provoked by the assertion. But the idea of a "perfect" age you long to match rings true enough to my ears.