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[symmachy]

[scatty is looking... actually, very mildly distressed. but trying to hide it. she's standing in her dojo, leaning against the wall. trying to look thoughtful instead. she runs a hand through her cropped red hair.]

What determines if someone is to be considered... old nowadays? Their looks or their actual age?

[pause.]

This is out of curiosity, of course.

Comments

[reluctantlegend.livejournal.com]

Well, if they're like... a million years old? That's old.

ENCRYPTED FOREVER

[symmachy]

Josh. I am not a million years old.

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[reluctantlegend.livejournal.com]

Then when were you born?

[lyingbrat.livejournal.com]

How they look, I think. Or how they think of themselves?

[symmachy]

I see.

How old would you say I looked?

[/does not care about the lack of etiquette required to guess a woman's age.]

[lyingbrat.livejournal.com]

Young... Early twenties at the oldest.

[sands-in-mexico.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it's the thoughts and actions that shows the outer age to be more apparent, but that's just my opinion. But from the two options, they seem nearly relative in comparison. Looks can betray the age or they can lie about it.

[symmachy]

I see. Is it common for people to lie about their age?

[sands-in-mexico.livejournal.com]

Huh, well that all depends on the goal.

[video]

[trueltning_fury]

*no idea what possessed him to look at this thing - he's not very well lit, thanks to being beside a small campfire at the moment*

Looks can be deceiving.

permavid.

[symmachy]

[Intriguing man is intriguing. It's the shadow thing--it always gets her.]

I take it that is from personal experience?

[trueltning_fury]

*mmm flickery shadows*

You could say that, yes.

[temporaltossed.livejournal.com]

Age is how you act?

[symmachy]

I suppose that makes sense.

[temporaltossed.livejournal.com]

Why are you asking - did someone say something?

[voice]

[foreverbouncing]

You're only as old as you feel!

permavoice.

[symmachy]

What if that changes on a daily basis?

[foreverbouncing]

Weeeeeell...uhm. Pick the one you feel the most, I guess?

[thing4telepaths.livejournal.com]

What kind of question is that?

[symmachy]

A legitimate one.

[thing4telepaths.livejournal.com]

It depends on a lot of factors.

[Voice]

[fangsmile.livejournal.com]

Around the time people younger than you are growing up, and you can look at them and think, with complete confidence and sincerity, that they are the stupidest little pricks you have ever met, and you were surely never that stupid when you were that age?

That's when you're old.

permavid.

[symmachy]

Well. I must be ancient, then.

[spiritgun]

Neither. It's what you've done that makes you old.

[symmachy]

Such as?