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. .
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mothmc, 36
Los Angeles, CA USA
When one stops playing in the rain.
Amy, 23
New Orleans, LA USA
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