often, when i happen to strike up a conversation with a stranger, they ask how old i am. it could be the manicurist, a fellow classmate at the gym or just someone i happened be in line with. they always say that i look a lot younger than my age. i can understand that. being "challenged" in the height department and being baby faced does that. i don't mind it at all.
what's on my mind is that i can't see myself acting my age. more truthfully is i don't know how to think like my age. i'm talking life experiences here...what one has gone through to get where they are now and they come out more worldly in the process.
here i am, a few months away from turning thirty. i don't think i have gone through enough to own the age of 30. i feel like i'm still green to this world, like everybody knows more about life than me, or has a more in depth perception of the situation than me.
how can i guide to my daughter as she grows if i feel that i'm not grown up enough?