When I was younger,  I looked at most adults as old. Being little, everyone looks old to you, especially if they are over 5 feet tall. Adults didn't get it,  they acted weird and they were just old.  As  I look back now, they were the age  I am now.  I am not old.  It's all a matter of perspective though.   To a young child now,  I am now my aunts.  I am old.  I do not look old, I do not feel old. Although every once in awhile. I hear myself saying something that ' my mother would say'.  I think everyone finds they do that every once in awhile .  I'm sure my mother says the same thing of herself with her mother.
  Funny thing is  there are certain people that still look at me like I am a child.  I own my own home, I take care of myself but I am not married.  I have decided that is why.  Since when does being married classify you as an adult? I must have missed that chapter of the ' What Determines Adulthood' book! I do, however get carded most places I go. I am usually mistaken for being 24-25. Funny thing about that is that I have been a smoker for about 20 years.  That will catch up to me I'm sure.  Just over the past few months, I have been noticing grays.  This is NOT ok with me. Because I do not feel my age or look it, I believe the grays need to wait a few more years. I 'm not old.  I'm just maturing. Each year ' old' is a new age.  To me, old is 95 :)