October 25, 2000    
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When do you think youth ends?

Never - you are only as young as you feel.

Stephanie, 24
TX  USA

When the first mortgage payment rolls in.

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick
, NJ   USA

When you stop being young.

Karen, 21
Marshelltown/Ames
, IA USA

Groundhog's Day, 2004, shortly after brunch. Or when you realize that adults aren't as impressive as they claim to be.

Alias Irrelevante

When you let it go

Jami, 27
Lowell
, MA   USA

When memories become longer than one's probable future. But in spirit, I hope never.

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR   USA

Probably never, 'cause I know some adults who act worse than I do...

Jeremy, 13
Highlands Ranch
, CO  USA

sadly, I don't think youth ends so much as abandons us. It sneaks out the door slowly, so that you don't even know it has gone until it too late to get it back.

Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario   CANADA

I think age is a bewildering concept. When I was 15, I thought that I would have a totally different personality when I was 30 - a 'grown-up' personality. Obviously I have grown up to an extent, but I still have pretty much the same personality. I still think of myself as that 15-year-old girl.  What's really weird is the shock of working with high school students. The 8th grade kids that I'm recruiting to my high school were born the year I graduated from high school! They all think I'm OLD. Anyway, to answer the question...I don't know when youth ends - it's all too confusing to me!

Susan, 31
Chicago
, IL   USA

With marriage, or after you've turned 30.

Shanna, 15
Cardiff   ENGLAND

Never

Melodi, 19
Hlliard
, OH   USA

youth is a state of mind; it ends when the mind ends it.

Gemma Lynn

Bumptious youth should end by the age of 30. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Enthusiasm can continue for a hundred years. Bumptiousness should be replaced by wisdom.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg
, PA   USA

When it is crushed under the foot of the tyranny of evil men.
Or
When it is bought by a corporation, modified and trademarked so that no one else can use it without paying a fee.
Or
When it is driven to extinction during synthesizing processes used to create comparable marketable products, like Yungth (tm), Yert (c), and Classic New Original Junk-Free Youth Lite with life-enhancing secret ingredients included (r).

They are looking for youth in people as early as their fourth year these days. They have cameras everywhere, and when they see it, they come knocking on your door. Only cute kids on soda commercials and underage pop divas get to keep theirs, and their youth ends up distorted and perverted after a while anyway. Very few people know to hide their youth from society, keep it in the attic for most of the time, let it out only once ina while to jump in a pile of leaves or chase someone around the house while making boing sounds.

I've lost all of my youth a long while back. I remember the big horse-needle they pulled it out with. My son have a crusty, no-nonsensehardass for a father.

Jesse, 24
Bowie
, MD    USA

When you realize that life has it's ups and downs and nothing ever goes as planned!

Lori, 34
Malden
, MA   USA

When you are in a job and finally feel as though your supervisors simply sees you as a work colleague they manage rather than a "child" they give life lessons to.  Or when you cease to care how that supervisor sees you.

Felicia, 34
Lowell, MA  USA

I think youth ends when ever you let it. We are just a young as we feel. The more active and busy we stay and the more we take care of ourselves the more youth stays with us.

Marci, 55
Diamond
, OH   USA

It never does unless you get old in your head. Youth isn't defined by a number to me... it doesn't cut off at 35, or 40, or 65... youth is a state of mind. My grandma is 70 years old and she is younger mentally than some of my twentysomething friends.

Maggie, 20
Sandwich
, IL   USA

Hmm...when you get your first bill that you can't bring to anyone else to either pay it or help you with it...(a rude awakening).

Fisch, 45
Preston
, CT   USA

My church (and most others) have a Youth Group that includes all the members between the ages of 13 and 20. Youth ends physically around 18-21. But mentally...that's another thing entirely. Some young people you hear about get married young, have a baby at 15, and grow up fast. My husband grew up at 10 when he was given an awesome responsibility. I didn't "grow up" until I was 30. The mentally retarded kid who works in our file room is now 28 (not a kid anymore) but still talks about cartoons, movies, and football scores just like he did when he began work 10 years ago. He'll  NEVER grow up.

Reba, 50
Rockville
, MD   USA

I think you are as young as you feel. So when youth ends depends on you.

Sarah J.
Jones, MO   USA

hopefully, it will never end in me. i think everyone retains part of their youth.

Steve, 29
Lake Worth
, FL  USA

youth never ends. you can be youthful all your life!

Brooke, 16
Memphis
, TN   USA

Youth ends when adulthood begins.

Dianne E., 16
Oshawa, Ontario   CANADA

Never. In your heart that part of you is always present, no matter what your age.

Tina, 31
Medford
, MA   USA

40

Savannah

Life is forever young. Life only appears to grow old as we begin crossing over into the next world.

Jami, 27
Lowell
, MA   USA

Never!! As long as you believe that you are still youthful, you still are!!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ  USA

Age is a state of mind more than a chronologically number. After all,  George Burns is a great example of youth lasting well beyond when youth is considered to have ended.

Mick, 30
Chicago
, IL   USA

when you want it too.

Karen2, 14
Boston
, MA    USA

The second you laugh at Doonesbury. I'm at the point where I get most of the references, but it is still  boring  as hell to me.

Anthony, 25
Baton Rouge
, LA   USA

When you stop seeing the potential in yourself to grow, when you  have more negative thoughts than positive thoughts, and your actions are more destructive than life giving.

Laura, 35
Lowell
, MA    USA

uh. . sure, as soon as you get old enough. . .

mothmc, 36
Los Angeles
, CA  USA

When one stops playing in the rain.

Amy, 23
New Orleans
, LA  USA

Yesterday / Tomorrow