Hmm, that one is kind of hard to explain, and I do hate to pull the, ÿou'll understand when you're older," line. But it really is difficult at your age to understand how odd it feels to realize that you have been having adult conversations with someone who is young enough to be your offspring. When this happens to you (many years from now), suddenly you will feel older than Methuselah. And when those conversations have included topics like sexual fetishes, it is stranger yet.
That said, it isn't as though eepiness is going to stop me. I have always been more about personalities and minds than about age brackets, it is just a bit disconcerting to find those qualities in kids half my age, who I seem to recall being, you know, kids. :P
Re: Being too hard on yourself: Bear in mind that you are a lot more aware of your mistakes than you are of other people's. While you may see other people make one or two mistakes where your paths cross, you do not see everything in their lives, as you do your own. And most good natured people notice their own errors more than they notice others' anyway, so it is only natural that you are more focused on your own. But I would hate to see it get to a point where it interfered with your ability to be happy, that's no fun at all.
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Hmm, that one is kind of hard to explain, and I do hate to pull the, ÿou'll understand when you're older," line. But it really is difficult at your age to understand how odd it feels to realize that you have been having adult conversations with someone who is young enough to be your offspring. When this happens to you (many years from now), suddenly you will feel older than Methuselah. And when those conversations have included topics like sexual fetishes, it is stranger yet.
That said, it isn't as though eepiness is going to stop me. I have always been more about personalities and minds than about age brackets, it is just a bit disconcerting to find those qualities in kids half my age, who I seem to recall being, you know, kids. :P
Re: Being too hard on yourself: Bear in mind that you are a lot more aware of your mistakes than you are of other people's. While you may see other people make one or two mistakes where your paths cross, you do not see everything in their lives, as you do your own. And most good natured people notice their own errors more than they notice others' anyway, so it is only natural that you are more focused on your own. But I would hate to see it get to a point where it interfered with your ability to be happy, that's no fun at all.