How old are you in your head?

In my head always 30 then I look at my 30 year old daughter and know it cannot be true

I feel in my thirties, I’m 62 in reality lol ? oh to be young again, even my husband says he feels thirty too, we don’t want to grow old gracefully.
No matter how old you are, if it’s your birthday ? today have a great birthday ? and for the rest of us have a great day today.❤️?xx

I do feel a lot younger in my head until I am faced with realising I am now 70 but I don’t think of myself as old. It’s just a number kind of thing until I face certain experiences.

Stripping and remaking the bed, I need a break before I tackle the next job.
Chatting with GDs, 10 & 14, sometimes haven’t a clue what they are talking about ?. So different since I was a teenager.

I had a nasty accident a few years ago. Fractured spine and nerve damage which gives me trouble now but I am just so happy that fortunately, I can still walk.

Still 15 mentally. And still making the same bloody mistakes I made way back then.

Gosh!

I'm 63. In my head maybe around 30 or 40? Hard to say exactly, but way younger than I actually am. I still feel daft and still like to have fun and mess about like I did when I was younger. When I WAS young I never imagined that when I was this age I would still want to act silly sometimes and giggle, and still enjoy "young" things. When I do things with my 35 year old daughter we often seem to act like daft teenagers. But my body betrays me a lot - I have a bad back and I get tired, and there are some times when I DO feel quite old, but it's physical stuff, not a mental state. In my head I remember very well how it felt to be 30, and even 16. And I still feel like that in my head, much of the time. People often tell me I look much younger than my years, so I try to live up to it in my attitudes.

I'll go for 24! By then I'd learned to drive a car, a steam roller, and a road racing motor bike, which I rode in Australia wearing hot pants and a midriff top. The very first time I took my 'bike out, I was stopped for speeding by the cops. That has to be a world record. I'd shipped steam engines from Australia to the UK (subsequently the Australian government made a law against this). We came back to the UK when I was 24 and bought a car with cash, and a house mortgage free. Life was good. On a sunny day I still wish I had my bike, sadly with 2 knee replacements it would be unwise, and my husband has died so no one to ride with. It's so important to take advantage of any opportunities that present themselves, so we don't live life with regrets.

In my head I sort of feel ageless...but my bones argue with me...

Seventeen. A happy and carefree time in my life. Then health issues make themselves felt and I feel 90! I'm a similar age to Lulu. Many years ago someone told me "you will always be young" and I hope I will, at least mentally.

In my head I'm sometimes 18 and at others times I'm 80. (I'm really in my 60s.)

I am always surprised when I find myself as old as some celebrities who have been around since my childhood - many of them, however, have had so much facial surgery that they look barely out of nappies.

Going back to the beginning - why does Lulu wear that silly hat all the time?

My not 50 yet. Some days I feel much older. My disability wears on me.
Some days I feel in my 20s.
I don't look/dress/act middle aged, it helps I think.
I don't think any of my friends look our age either. It is not because we've had easy, privileged lives either.
I think it is a state of mind ?

I’m 72 but keep on being told I sound much younger! If you don’t peer too closely think I look younger! I have several friends quite a bit older and when in their company I feel as if I’m in the company of “the adults”!! I’m only ten years younger!

Haha Baggs I know what you mean! The only way I would feel young is if I'm doing something I did when I was young. Otherwise the memories keep me old. I saw a programme where a woman was counseled for her eating disorder, she was told to see herself as a young girl, what she was before she was comfort eating. To think of the little girl when she was happy. It really touched me. She was told to get rid of anything giving her memories that were painful and wipe the slate clean. If that's the way forward, I would have to dispose of alot of my stuff.

I'm 64, and sometimes feel 24, until someone offers me a seat on bus, or train , and then feel very grateful to them. ?

Yeah, about 32!

grannytotwins sorry that you have been bullied and subject ageism, the cheeky beggars. Don't people realise they too will be pensioners one day and that it comes around all too quickly?

Sometimes I feel I shouldn't be as old as I am but then a hard day at work..arthritis.. and life reminds me!

I’m mentally about 37. I can’t be 70! Recently encountered ageism and bullying because of my age it has devastated me and I have cried every day for the past two weeks. I’ve never felt so low.

I definitely reckon I’m about 40 .... then somebody tells me we are organising my daughter’s 40th and I stop and shrug ... ohhh

Half my age: 35.

I don't really feel any particular age; I just feel like me with quite a bit of life experience behind me! It's only other people looking at me who see an older person but from my own eyes, looking out into the world, it still looks just as fresh and new as it did when I was a child.

Definitely 30!

A couple of years ago I saw an add for a Lulu concert in Manchester where I live and realised it was exactly HALF A CENTURY since i last saw her live (at the Albert Hall, DJ was that nice bloke Jimmy Saville.) Great that she is still singing!

I spend time with people of a range of ages - and I always think of myself in the middle of the age range, which would put me in my 40s. I think I am actually 1664 (16 from the back, 64 from the front)

I'm 82 but like to reverse that figure in my head, so I'm 28 on a good day.