LaTigresse -> RE: One Older Man's View on Age (10/6/2006 7:32:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: mgdartist thanks for all the insightful comments. This issue recently came to a head for me after a girl I was talking to and getting on well with suddenly lost interest after asking and being told my age. Before that I spent six months as the victim of an online poser who said she was 27, and had hundreds of pics of her beautiful readheaded self. After I ended it because she continued to refuse the face to face, I found myself still needing affirmation she was who she claimed to attain closure. With no help from her, and refusing to even get on cam, a netsleuth search turned up nothing on her name or profession as I knew I had the right address and phone, albeit unlisted. I was about to give up when I cross-referenced her address as a last resort. Bam! there she was, different name and different age. She was 60. Then all her 7000 friends on mxspace and other strange things she'd say and do started to make sense. It was my first ever online and obviously I was just naive and dumb. So I guess in the aftermath it was inevitable for me to mindwarp into something like this. A chat record about age I was recently maintaining in my journal here, i suppose feeling justified. It's now been removed to that remote blog, but I still struggle with basic age questions, and mostly feel constantly stereotyped and classified, or put in an age slot, and despise that the info used to do that has to always come from me. I know I'm likely out of line, and just need to get over it, but haven't and will rarely say my age to anyone. there's much more in the blog, but it's still a much bigger issue with me than what seems to be hinted at here. ...and perhaps should be. MGD WOW, said she was 27 and was 60??!! Well that is wayyyyyyyy more than an age issue, that is just seriously lying. A whole different ball of wax. I am 44, I say I am 44. When I turn 45, I will say I am 45......so on and so forth. I prefer to keep it honest and let those that do not like the truth fall by the wayside early on. Hell, I would not WANT to be twenty-anything again! I love being where I am in life right now. Besides why string anyone on with a line of bullshit?
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