Do you have an old soul?

[Ambivalent1]

Maybe our "soul" wants to rest even though our bodies could live many more years. Continuing on feels draining because every thought worth thinking has been thought already. Like how many elderly people rarely talk because there's nothing else to say.

 

[psp3000]

I believe so

people who have never met me or know me usually assume I am older

when I was younger relatives would tell me that I had an old soul but then again I did not have siblings and I couldn't connect with my cousins and people my own age so my "old soul" may be a result of only being around adults and the elderly when I was younger

 

[Darkover]

there's no evidence for the soul existing and it's unlikely there ever will be, there's nothing immortal about the human condition, your just a machine made up of atoms soon to cease existing altogether

 

[Ambivalent1]

there's no evidence for the soul existing and it's unlikely there ever will be, there's nothing immortal about the human condition, your just a machine made up of atoms soon to cease existing altogether

Why so literal? I was being poetic.

 

[Lost Magic]

Yep, I call it the tired soul theory. The repetition of life and all the trials have taken their toll. I have heard many really old people say that they can't wait for it all to be over (and young). This life is just fucking hard.

 

[Takamagahara]

I've always been called mature and older than I seem even when I was very young. Among my last friend group, we were always cracking jokes about how I must be a million years old or how I'm a boomer (I'm 29.)

It tends to be related more to experience than literal age, I find. I've done and seen a lot of things, held a lot of jobs, and have a lot of skills. I'm not a master of everything but there's only a few things I can't do adequately. I have no metric with which to gauge how much experience I have, but certainly I do feel as if I've experienced more things than most other people have, broadly speaking. So I guess I do have an old soul, like I've crammed 50 years of experience into a 29-year old body.

 

[Ambivalent1]

Yep, I call it the tired soul theory. The repetition of life and all the trials have taken their toll. I have heard many really old people say that they can't wait for it all to be over (and young). This life is just fucking hard.

How do older people tolerate the same day on repeat?