What do you think is your mental age?
By Jenaisle
@Jenaisle (14078)
Philippines
June 25, 2023 8:05pm CST
Sometimes, I wonder what my mental age is. At times, I think like an 8-year-old excited about trivial things and raring to conquer the world.
And often, I think like a 90-year-old, exhausted about everything in life; being unable to lift a finger for anything.
If I try to gauge my mental age, I would be between 20 to 50 years old.
Come to think of it, when I reached my real age of 50, I had stopped counting the years. They say that age is just a number, what matters is what’s inside one’s heart.
What about you? What do you think of this concept? What is your mental age?
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27 responses
@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
26 Jun 23
This photo is beautiful, such a pretty young girl.
If you mean the "physical mental age", tested by doctor to check how much my brain functions, I am in my early 40.
How I feel, most of the time I feel in my early 30, some days I feel as I were 100 years old.
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@1creekgirl (41387)
• United States
26 Jun 23
Is that one of your grand children? She's just beautiful!
I can tell you I felt a lot younger last year before cancer.
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@1creekgirl (41387)
• United States
26 Jun 23
@Jenaisle I truly appreciate your kind words.
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@AmbiePam (92414)
• United States
26 Jun 23
I would say I feel a lot like you; sometimes I'm an excitable eight year old, and then other times I am mentally weary like I would be in my eighties. If I had to give a gauge of my mental age, I would guess 30 to 35. There are too many lessons I can't unlearn that raise my mental age. Now, physically? Undoubtedly, I am sixty-five. In reality, I'm a grand forty-two.
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@much2say (55537)
• Los Angeles, California
27 Jun 23
@Jenaisle I was thinking that at "our age", we experienced the "younger" ages, so we can say we feel that way since we went through it. So what do the younger folks mean when they say they feel like they're 40/50/60 . . . what do they think that's supposed to feel like . .. hmmm .
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@allknowing (135994)
• India
26 Jun 23
There are quizzes that determine our IQ and EQ. I think I should go there and then get back here (lol)
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@rsa101 (38148)
• Philippines
26 Jun 23
I also do not know since it depends on the situation. When at work I feel old and matured. When I am home I feel like a child wanting to rest and play and eat. When I am out in the sea for example I feel like a teenager who could do many things there.
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@celticeagle (166718)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 23
Inside one's heart for sure. I think I feel like I am about 37. Mentally that is. Now if my physical body would just catch up.
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@innertalks (21904)
• Australia
26 Jun 23
I never think of my mental age, I leave my mind to stay as it is, the same unaged tool, for my soul, which is unaging too.
Our brain might physically age, but to my mind, our mind never ages. I do not worry about the mental age of my brain either, as whatever it is, it is, just a tool for my real self, my spiritual self.
We are a spiritual being, having a human existence, in our body, and brain, not a human, having a spiritual experience. If we see it that way, our brain, and body, serve us, rather than our thinking that they age, or deteriorate, because the real us, never does.
I think our consciousness, and awareness, levels can change, but I see them as being connected to our heart, and soul, more than to our mind.
The more we love, and understand the truths of our loving, our conscious awareness level grows with this loving.
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@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
26 Jun 23
I got your point, this is from a spiritual point of view. If we connect more to our soul, then even if we age physically, the real us won't because our level of awareness grows with the love that we possess.
Hence, our bodies should serve us rather than us serving our bodies - if we consider our spiritual age.
An enlightening point of view.
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@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
27 Jun 23
@innertalks I am trying to grow spiritually too. Thank you for the constant reminders.
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@innertalks (21904)
• Australia
27 Jun 23
@Jenaisle Thanks.
I am glad that you saw my point, and it is why I do not take much time to think about my physical, or mental, age, but try to grow myself spiritually to be more mature in my soul, growing in wisdomed truth, and in the understanding of God, and his creation too.
@aninditasen (16377)
• Raurkela, India
26 Jun 23
I think myself as an old woman in my early 60s which I am but people say I don't look so.
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@aninditasen (16377)
• Raurkela, India
27 Jun 23
@Jenaisle That's what everyone says. Thank you.
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@LindaOHio (177898)
• United States
26 Jun 23
My mental age is 22; but my body feels like 90. I think a lot about the time I got married at the age of 22. Have a good week. Who is the lovely young lady?
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@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
28 Jun 23
@LindaOHio AWESOME 53 years is a long record. Congratulations!
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@LindaOHio (177898)
• United States
28 Jun 23
@Jenaisle We will be married 53 years in October. Seems like yesterday.
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@almostoveryou (4777)
• Philippines
26 Jun 23
it's an interesting concept. most days i daydream like a teenager. when i'm hard at work, i tend to think like i was in my early 20s. i worked like a horse then.
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@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
27 Jun 23
@almostoveryou That's a wise move. Good luck with your online ventures.
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@almostoveryou (4777)
• Philippines
27 Jun 23
@Jenaisle yes, i worked so hard i would often suffer a burnout. that is why i decided to work from home full-time before i turned 30.
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@MarieCoyle (37182)
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27 Jun 23
I have basically had adult responsibilities since I was a child. In a way, I was always just an old soul, without much of a childhood. But it was strengthening for what was before me, and built me in to a stronger woman.
As long as we keep learning, we are never really old. And as long as we never give up, I think we keep on learning. Maybe I'm wrong in this, but that's my take on it all.
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@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
27 Jun 23
@MarieCoyle I agree, that's what I noticed too.
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@MarieCoyle (37182)
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27 Jun 23
@Jenaisle
I think reading helps slow aging, as well. It seems as if people who read avidly, usually stay alert and retain things longer in life.
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
26 Jun 23
I honestly have no idea but I like to think I think more maturely for my age.
Sometimes though, I know I think like a child.
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@RebeccasFarm (89831)
• Arvada, Colorado
27 Jun 23
17 for sure. No mistaking that.
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@RasmaSandra (79687)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Jun 23
About 16 and ready to rock and roll. If the mood strikes me I would also love to play with Barbie dolls again only problem is I have no dolls
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