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**kazzamunga** · 07-31-2009, 03:49 PM

I'm going to turn 23 this month...they say 22 is the philosophical age, the age where you think things through etc (this seems very specific, I'm pretty sure I've always thought things through...). For you: what was it like to be 23? Good age/bad age?

**Llama** · 07-31-2009, 04:11 PM

Happy birthday

I'll answer the question in 3 years' time.

**Iggy Hazard** · 07-31-2009, 04:25 PM

My "life" (in terms of feeling at least partially "complete") began at 22 (July, 2002) and ended at 23 (July, 2003). Other than college in the late '90s, it was the best time of my life, but it ended when I quit my miserable job at the time (making $8.50/hr. at a cubicle job with no future) only to find out that my ridiculously expensive college education had become obsolete. Basically, my life ended six years ago and I've never been able to fix it. Now I work in a factory alongside degenerate Philistine swine (and that's an insult to swine), most of which can't even control their own emotions.

Just as futureless as ever but I actually make more money than I did back then.

Storm · 07-31-2009, 04:26 PM

I was 23 last year. It didn't feel too different from 22. You start to realize that you are an adult, not becoming an adult anymore. Welcome to the mid-20s.
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**Rho1334** · 07-31-2009, 04:29 PM

Was 23 last year about to 24 and to be honest it was just like the last. Sure i got married and divorced but what can you do.

**jndiii** · 07-31-2009, 04:32 PM

There's nothing magical about your age that indicates good or bad.

That said, you have your whole life ahead of you. From now on, you will be calling the shots. You don't get to blame your parents, or your teachers or anyone else for what happens next.

You're going to make some mistakes. That's OK. What's really cool is that when it's your fault, and you know it, you know how to fix it, and you fix it. The hard part will be developing the habits and discipline that come with being an adult. It was soooo easy to get away with all sorts of things before age 23 that I can't now. ... I would never go back to being 23, though; certainly not if it meant forgetting all I've learned since then.

Enjoy your birthday, and you have my best wishes for your success on your adventures to come.

**tp6626** · 07-31-2009, 04:34 PM

23 is fine. Wait till you're 25. That seems to be the age at which everyone seems to set targets to when they're a lot younger. I.e. I will be married by 25, or I will have a house by 25, or I will live in another city and have a good job by the time I'm 25.

Then that age comes, you look around and wonder why everything isn't as rosy as it was in your imagination when you were 16.

But you've still got two years on that front!
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**Josephine1012** · 07-31-2009, 05:13 PM

23 was the turning point in my life in terms of making realizations of who I am. of course, that was also the year I finished college, broke off a dysfunctional relationship and realized that my life was way more fun without having a rigid plan.

**Mogura** · 07-31-2009, 05:18 PM

I'm still 22. I've been 22 for how many years now?... Ha ha... 23 is a lot like being 22, if I recall correctly...

The 30's is good because by that time, you are pretty much financially independent and secure (well, I guess that depends on your spending habits).

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**Vulcanesse** · 07-31-2009, 05:33 PM

You know what's really weird?

Ever since I was young (pre-teens) I noticed that I never met anyone who was 23. I thought of 23 as being a non-age. Sure there are people who are 22 and people who are 24, but not 23. I always wondered where all the 23 year-olds were.

Then when I was 23 I was uneasy about the whole thing. I was happy to turn 24.

**khadi** · 07-31-2009, 05:47 PM

I turned 23 yesterday. I have vague sense of "How am I this old? Did I cheat? What have I been doing?".

But then I still get weirded out when I learn that my peers are married.

**Josephine1012** · 07-31-2009, 06:10 PM

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	I turned 23 yesterday. I have vague sense of "How am I this old? Did I cheat? What have I been doing?". But then I still get weirded out when I learn that my peers are married.

Me too (I'm almost 29), age doesn't fix the attitude
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**dontlookback** · 07-31-2009, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Iggy Hazard
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My "life" (in terms of feeling at least partially "complete") began at 22 (July, 2002) and ended at 23 (July, 2003). Other than college in the late '90s, it was the best time of my life, but it ended when I quit my miserable job at the time (making $8.50/hr. at a cubicle job with no future) only to find out that my ridiculously expensive college education had become obsolete. Basically, my life ended six years ago and I've never been able to fix it. Now I work in a factory alongside degenerate Philistine swine (and that's an insult to swine), most of which can't even control their own emotions.

Just as futureless as ever but I actually make more money than I did back then.

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*pokes*
Yep,you're still breathing.
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Not 23 yet. Not until another 4 years (Wow I feel young
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) But I like the movie 'The number 23'
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**Morro** · 07-31-2009, 07:23 PM

Nothing special about 23... except life is very short and you'll never ever be 23 ever again so enjoy everything about being 23!!! Don't spend it all in one place; You can never ever get it back.

Happy 23 and ENJOY!!
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**Kris** · 08-01-2009, 01:11 AM

I'm 23 now...I turn 24 on the last day of the year.

Doesn't feel especially different to 22 really, except the fact that I'm a year closer to 25, which is the point I'll be closer to 30 than 20. That scares me a little. I'm not ready to grow up and be responsible!

I did some serious introspecting at certain points from 22-23 and realised I was a very different person than a few years ago and subsequently made some major life changes.

I wouldn't actively seek out some kind of change, just enjoy being 23.

**ranwayslo** · 08-01-2009, 07:39 AM

When I was 23 I...ummm...don't do any of the things I did.

23 is nice. It is a prime number! Also the fever of being 21 is gone (a big deal 'round here) the hangover of being 22 is done and your not on the way to 30 for at least 2-5 more years. 23-28 years old is a good age. You are gonna love it...did I mention 23 is a prime number?

Wait until you are 30 and they are on their 2nd and or 3rd marriages. Doesn't feel so weird now!

**True Rune** · 08-01-2009, 08:55 AM

I did all my big introspecting when I was 20-21, so next year (23) should be boring. >_>

**loosefanbelt** · 08-01-2009, 09:01 AM

Don't over-think it.

Happy Birthday!

**Hamsta** · 08-01-2009, 10:20 AM

23. Somewhere between being out of mandatory Israeli Air Force service for a year, and studying graphic design. Wasn't bad. Plenty of time to play computer games, mom didn't nag as much as when I wasn't in some sort of frame.

**Deliberator** · 08-01-2009, 10:32 AM

I am 23. It has been quite a year so far:
- Got pregnant
- Graduated college
- Got lots of honors
- Finished my first research project and article
- Got rejected from my favorite internship
- Got my first full-time job in research
- Went through a very traumatic interpersonal mental crisis
- Decided I'm an atheist

I have always been fairly philosophical, ALWAYS. The maturity and evolution of my philosophy has changed in a big way since I was 18. I went from a very sensitive, poetic, religious idealist to a socially apathetic, scientific, atheistic pragmatist. 23 didn't hold most of those changes, it has been a year of finishing up my path to total adulthood. I like adulthood, except for not being able to play as much.

**eri** · 08-01-2009, 11:09 AM

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	But then I still get weirded out when I learn that my peers are married.

I found it even stranger when I started finding out they had three kids already! But 23 was a little while ago. Haven't gotten around to a serious relationship yet.

I guess when I was 23, it would have been my last year of college. For the first time. It was the year that I was learning a lot about caring for other people, and it was a very difficult year- which doesn't mean that it wasn't good.
Seriously, I don't think any year is the same for everyone. Try not to compare yourself to anyone else too much- we all work with what we have. Just have a happy birthday.

**MikeAZ** · 08-01-2009, 03:31 PM

Happy Birthday Kaz & Kadi (and b-day lerkers)

The Berlin wall was still enacted when I was 23. I remember it as a building year (no pun intended).

Newly married, almost done with the military and doing well, last year as an atheist, finishing my first degree, very little contact with extended family…

you have a long way to go, take the high road and enjoy the trip.

**Frosted** · 08-01-2009, 03:58 PM

	Originally Posted by kazzamunga To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I'm going to turn 23 this month...they say 22 is the philosophical age, the age where you think things through etc (this seems very specific, I'm pretty sure I've always thought things through...). For you: what was it like to be 23? Good age/bad age?

26 is the age where you're viewed as an adult and most people stop referring to you as a kid. Someone told me this a long time ago and just having turned 26 this year I can say it's true. A few years ago people that were 20 seemed like equals but now they seem like kids. Sure a 20 year old is an adult by many means, but when you look at a 20 year old as a "kid" you know you're an adult now, until then have fun being really young. I'm still young, but not really young.

**Monte314** · 08-01-2009, 04:51 PM

I finished my Masters Degree when I was 23. It was the first year my wife and I were married. It was an exciting and difficult year.

07-31-2009, 03:49 PM	#1
kazzamunga Member [19%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 760	I'm going to turn 23 this month...they say 22 is the philosophical age, the age where you think things through etc (this seems very specific, I'm pretty sure I've always thought things through...). For you: what was it like to be 23? Good age/bad age?
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07-31-2009, 04:11 PM	#2
Llama Member [03%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 132	Happy birthday I'll answer the question in 3 years' time.
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07-31-2009, 04:25 PM	#3
Iggy Hazard Banned MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 194	My "life" (in terms of feeling at least partially "complete") began at 22 (July, 2002) and ended at 23 (July, 2003). Other than college in the late '90s, it was the best time of my life, but it ended when I quit my miserable job at the time (making $8.50/hr. at a cubicle job with no future) only to find out that my ridiculously expensive college education had become obsolete. Basically, my life ended six years ago and I've never been able to fix it. Now I work in a factory alongside degenerate Philistine swine (and that's an insult to swine), most of which can't even control their own emotions. Just as futureless as ever but I actually make more money than I did back then.
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07-31-2009, 04:26 PM	#4
Storm Administrator MBTI: xxxx Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 14,687	I was 23 last year. It didn't feel too different from 22. You start to realize that you are an adult, not becoming an adult anymore. Welcome to the mid-20s. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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07-31-2009, 04:29 PM	#5
Rho1334 Core Member [308%] MBTI: xxxx Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 12,329	Was 23 last year about to 24 and to be honest it was just like the last. Sure i got married and divorced but what can you do.
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07-31-2009, 04:32 PM	#6
jndiii Core Member [131%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 5,270	There's nothing magical about your age that indicates good or bad. That said, you have your whole life ahead of you. From now on, you will be calling the shots. You don't get to blame your parents, or your teachers or anyone else for what happens next. You're going to make some mistakes. That's OK. What's really cool is that when it's your fault, and you know it, you know how to fix it, and you fix it. The hard part will be developing the habits and discipline that come with being an adult. It was soooo easy to get away with all sorts of things before age 23 that I can't now. ... I would never go back to being 23, though; certainly not if it meant forgetting all I've learned since then. Enjoy your birthday, and you have my best wishes for your success on your adventures to come.
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07-31-2009, 04:34 PM	#7
tp6626 Core Member [108%] MBTI: iNTj Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 4,338	23 is fine. Wait till you're 25. That seems to be the age at which everyone seems to set targets to when they're a lot younger. I.e. I will be married by 25, or I will have a house by 25, or I will live in another city and have a good job by the time I'm 25. Then that age comes, you look around and wonder why everything isn't as rosy as it was in your imagination when you were 16. But you've still got two years on that front! To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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07-31-2009, 05:13 PM	#8
Josephine1012 Veteran Member [78%] MBTI: ENFP Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 3,144	23 was the turning point in my life in terms of making realizations of who I am. of course, that was also the year I finished college, broke off a dysfunctional relationship and realized that my life was way more fun without having a rigid plan.
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07-31-2009, 05:18 PM	#9
Mogura Core Member [175%] MBTI: INFJ Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 7,031	I'm still 22. I've been 22 for how many years now?... Ha ha... 23 is a lot like being 22, if I recall correctly... The 30's is good because by that time, you are pretty much financially independent and secure (well, I guess that depends on your spending habits). PM me for your birthday spankings...
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07-31-2009, 05:33 PM	#10
Vulcanesse New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 26	You know what's really weird? Ever since I was young (pre-teens) I noticed that I never met anyone who was 23. I thought of 23 as being a non-age. Sure there are people who are 22 and people who are 24, but not 23. I always wondered where all the 23 year-olds were. Then when I was 23 I was uneasy about the whole thing. I was happy to turn 24.
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07-31-2009, 05:47 PM	#11
khadi Member [31%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,257	I turned 23 yesterday. I have vague sense of "How am I this old? Did I cheat? What have I been doing?". But then I still get weirded out when I learn that my peers are married.
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07-31-2009, 07:23 PM	#14
Morro New Member [01%] MBTI: Ixxx Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 52	Nothing special about 23... except life is very short and you'll never ever be 23 ever again so enjoy everything about being 23!!! Don't spend it all in one place; You can never ever get it back. Happy 23 and ENJOY!! To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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08-01-2009, 01:11 AM	#15
Kris Member [27%] MBTI: ENTP Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,116	I'm 23 now...I turn 24 on the last day of the year. Doesn't feel especially different to 22 really, except the fact that I'm a year closer to 25, which is the point I'll be closer to 30 than 20. That scares me a little. I'm not ready to grow up and be responsible! I did some serious introspecting at certain points from 22-23 and realised I was a very different person than a few years ago and subsequently made some major life changes. I wouldn't actively seek out some kind of change, just enjoy being 23.
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08-01-2009, 07:39 AM	#16
ranwayslo Member [19%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 798	When I was 23 I...ummm...don't do any of the things I did. 23 is nice. It is a prime number! Also the fever of being 21 is gone (a big deal 'round here) the hangover of being 22 is done and your not on the way to 30 for at least 2-5 more years. 23-28 years old is a good age. You are gonna love it...did I mention 23 is a prime number? Wait until you are 30 and they are on their 2nd and or 3rd marriages. Doesn't feel so weird now!
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08-01-2009, 08:55 AM	#17
True Rune Core Member [200%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8,028	I did all my big introspecting when I was 20-21, so next year (23) should be boring. >_>
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08-01-2009, 09:01 AM	#18
loosefanbelt Core Member [174%] MBTI: INFX Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 6,989	Don't over-think it. Happy Birthday!
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08-01-2009, 10:20 AM	#19
Hamsta Member [10%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 420	23. Somewhere between being out of mandatory Israeli Air Force service for a year, and studying graphic design. Wasn't bad. Plenty of time to play computer games, mom didn't nag as much as when I wasn't in some sort of frame.
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08-01-2009, 10:32 AM	#20
Deliberator Core Member [122%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 4,884	I am 23. It has been quite a year so far: - Got pregnant - Graduated college - Got lots of honors - Finished my first research project and article - Got rejected from my favorite internship - Got my first full-time job in research - Went through a very traumatic interpersonal mental crisis - Decided I'm an atheist I have always been fairly philosophical, ALWAYS. The maturity and evolution of my philosophy has changed in a big way since I was 18. I went from a very sensitive, poetic, religious idealist to a socially apathetic, scientific, atheistic pragmatist. 23 didn't hold most of those changes, it has been a year of finishing up my path to total adulthood. I like adulthood, except for not being able to play as much.
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08-01-2009, 03:31 PM	#22
MikeAZ Member [27%] MBTI: INtJ Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,112	Happy Birthday Kaz & Kadi (and b-day lerkers) The Berlin wall was still enacted when I was 23. I remember it as a building year (no pun intended). Newly married, almost done with the military and doing well, last year as an atheist, finishing my first degree, very little contact with extended family… you have a long way to go, take the high road and enjoy the trip.
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08-01-2009, 04:51 PM	#24
Monte314 Core Member [408%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 16,354	I finished my Masters Degree when I was 23. It was the first year my wife and I were married. It was an exciting and difficult year.
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