Define "Youth"

[GoldShadowHunt]

What is Youth, exactly?
Is youth only a numerical age, or is it a frame of mind? Allow me to explain.
Youth, as a numerical age, is relatively self-explanatory. However, youth as a frame of mind, is not.

Example: A 45-year-old man still hits on teenage girls, gets drunk with a frightening abandon every weekend, and hasn't gone to college because he thinks he can get by on his "good looks" is one that I would consider young. Put differently, naivete. One who is incredibly naive is young to me, because they remind me of children who have not yet learned a life lesson.

I realize fully that I'm ranting, but hey, indulge the "ranting urge" if you will.

[Ronin]

I believe it's all a state of mind. Numerical age has no real meaning except to keep count of time. Other than that it has no real bearing. It's all in your mind.

-R

[WolfHawk]

I believe it's all a state of mind. Numerical age has no real meaning except to keep count of time. Other than that it has no real bearing. It's all in your mind.

-R

Agreed completely Ronin. I've meet some 16 year old kids(sorry people, but I'm OLD!) that are far more mature than some of the 40 year olds. I never really look at age. What's in the person's heart and head is all that matters to me.

[kaycee]

Agreed completely Ronin. I've meet some 16 year old kids(sorry people, but I'm OLD!) that are far more mature than some of the 40 year olds. I never really look at age. What's in the person's heart and head is all that matters to me.

That's a nice way of looking at things :)

[Metalhead13]

yeah i reackon thats its all in your head, course it depends also on the way you have lived life, such as a person with many experiences, could seem older than one with few......well yeah i am 15 and i consider myself old.

[MorganaFang]

I AM one of those kind of people who will say there age a thousand times over just for the pure shock value it brings to my psychi. But I've always found it kind of ironic how some people will go over how some ways of thinking are wrong or immature and then state their age. Do we really want to know? Does it make the situation any better to be aware that you are of an age that most people associate with immature teens?
Course, like I said I do it too, last line of defence, expose yourself sort of deal.

[Klark]

Define youth? Well, I have no definition of youth. I guess to me there are kids and then there are adults. There are those stuck in between, like me. I still can't believe I'm in my early twenties because my brain tells me I should still be about 17 or 18. Oh wait, I'm a guy, that's right, we don't mature with our age, we run a couple years behind!

[LV426]

I believe that youth is both an age and a state of mind.

There are children who although may seem more mature, they are still children and need to behave as such in order to grow in a healthy manner. There are adults that because of developmental problems, are still children and will always be children.

And then there are the adults who still act like they are 12 even though they are capable of acting their own age. I don't think of that as being youthful, I think it as being stupid. There is a difference in being youthful and just acting like an immature moron. Now me, I don't think of myself as being as old as I am. I am sometimes amazed that I am not still 18. I've always been mature for my age but I do have a youthful quality in that I still take pleasure in childish things. I still watch cartoons, I collect comic books, love sci-fi movies, have stuffed animals, and still find pleasure in toy and candy stores the way I did when I was younger. I can be dead serious and on the other side I can act as looney as a toon.

But the difference between being youthful and being young is that the young ones don't know when they need to be serious, and the youthful ones should know better.

[YoungFang]

I agree with what has been said but youth, I don't think, is just stated as the maturity of an individual but also for how active and healthy a person is both physically and mentally, which declines through age.

[chriz]

I decided to stop aging at 18. It was a good time, why not let it go on forever?

It only became a problem when my last gf wanted to get married and have kids. I thought -- no way, adults do that...

[Nightmare GenoReaper]

I believe it's all a state of mind. Numerical age has no real meaning except to keep count of time. Other than that it has no real bearing. It's all in your mind.

-R

True, but there are also pyshical limitations if you allow to happen. In age you get things such as arthritis, and you suffer from the brain cells you have lost, losing certain abilties of memory or worse. It's best not to become a coach potato when you get older, say in touch with the times.