At what age did you become you?

[Falka]

I think it has made me a much better and more interesting person in every way, thus my advice to anyone who feels stuck, or think they are at the end of some road: MOVE. Sometimes, it is your friends, or even those you love and love you back that keep you in invisible chains.

See, we all got what I call a life trap, this gene-deep certainty that things will be different, that you'll move to another city and meet the people that'll be the friends for the rest of your life, that you'll fall in love and be fulfilled. Fucking fulfillment, heh, and closure, whatever the fuck those two-- Fucking empty jars to hold this shitstorm, and nothing is ever fulfilled until the very end, and closure-- No. No, no. Nothing is ever over.

[Xant]

The time, the knowledge you acquire, and the experiences you live change you. And since we always live experiences, we can't stop changing or anything. If you stop learning, or living experiences, then your end is near, and then you'll have more or less reached your final stage. I changed a lot within 2/3 years, and I expect to change a lot again in the next 5 years, and this until I die.

How old are you?

[Algarn]

How old are you?

19 in 2 months.

[Thomek]

See, we all got what I call a life trap, this gene-deep certainty that things will be different, that you'll move to another city and meet the people that'll be the friends for the rest of your life, that you'll fall in love and be fulfilled. Fucking fulfillment, heh, and closure, whatever the fuck those two-- Fucking empty jars to hold this shitstorm, and nothing is ever fulfilled until the very end, and closure-- No. No, no. Nothing is ever over.

Well in my experience.. (and I'm jesus age) is that things WILL be different if you move and learn from those new places. Maybe not in the first place you go to, maybe not the second. But keep moving, and try to stay open and not judgmental. These things are usually just shields to protect your ego and make stuff easier to cope with. I used to think a lot of bad things about myself (and others), but now I laugh of all the energy I spent worrying about that shit. Be it girls, success, or life in general.

[Falka]

 

[Xant]

19 in 2 months.

Uh, so, did you read the thread? You're 18 and you're saying how you've changed a lot in the past 2-3 years. Well, no shit. You can't really say anything one way or the other before you're older, your brain is still very much maturing.

It seems like about half the people in this thread miss the point, perhaps because they never even read the replies, and are talking past the subject.

There are some great posts too, though.

[Ikarus]

Everytime I look at old pictures of me, I think to myself "gosh dude, you had NO idea about nothing. I´m so glad I got better than this during the years." And then, some years later, I look back at some pictures from that time and think exactly the same thing. And I´m really happy about that. I hope I´ll never get into the situation where I think to myself "Gosh, look at me back then, it was so great. And now I became so terrible."

Especially when you´re an artist, you always compare your current works with your old works. And you always think "gosh, I thought I was kinda good, but actually I sucked really hard.". Until some years pass and you look at pictures from that time...  It´s kind of a neverending struggle, but it keeps you moving.

Kinda like this

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and yes, I could really slap myself when I was 16, 17, although it was a tough time back then

[Macropus]

Or are you you yet?

Not yet, and that's a good thing I believe.

[Kafein]

Just wanted to reply that I'm a bit worried about learning that Leshma is a worshiper of the Drowned God.

On topic, I am not the same as I was when I started writing this post. That seemed like an absolutely great joke.

[njames89]

I remember reading somewhere that all cells in your body turn over every 7 years or so. Probably has something to do with that. #learneditfromtheinternet

[Leshma]

Just wanted to reply that I'm a bit worried about learning that Leshma is a worshiper of the Drowned God.

Leshma, cRPG module and main protagonist of Dark Souls series.

What is dead may never die, but raises again, harder and stronger.

[Leshma]

Well in my experience.. (and I'm jesus age) is that things WILL be different if you move and learn from those new places. Maybe not in the first place you go to, maybe not the second. But keep moving, and try to stay open and not judgmental. These things are usually just shields to protect your ego and make stuff easier to cope with. I used to think a lot of bad things about myself (and others), but now I laugh of all the energy I spent worrying about that shit. Be it girls, success, or life in general.

"Why did I follow him...? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams? All I know is that, when he beckoned... I had to follow him. From that moment, we traveled together, East. Always... into the East."

Are you Aidan, the dark wanderer, perhaps?

[Algarn]

To answer to the question in the original post, I guess it's around 20 and 30 years that you are defined at 90% (lifestyle, opinions, beliefs, etc), and you can call that "yourself". It all depends on how early you did realize what is surrounding you, if you are aware of that world at 15 in its , you'll be accepting the world like it is at 20, and find "yourself" around 25 years old. Still, people who have one or several major events in their life can be "broken", and change almost entirely, become someone else, that they can call themselves afterward, without being proud necessarily of it. Traumatized soldiers for example need to accept the world again, and build back themselves from nothing.

My opinions thought.

[Kafein]

It's funny to watch 20-somethings discuss about the impossibility of a midlife crisis.

[Ikarus]

It's funny to watch 20-somethings discuss about the impossibility of a midlife crisis.

it´s an impossibility when you never leave puberty

If I ever get out of puberty, I´ll go straight into the midlife crisis