Born in the wrong time?

Then you recognize this

If I could be reborn in another era, I would choose the sixties. If only for the music and the books. I mention The Beatles releasing their first single (Love Me Do), the first man on the moon, the very first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, the books ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’, Sam Cooke and his song ‘Nothing Can Change This Love’ (note to my future hubby: this is what we will dance to when we get married) and Woodstock Festival.

Yes, I know that the sixties weren't always a bed of roses. Kennedy was assassinated and Martin Luther King too, the Berlin Wall was built and the Vietnam War was still in full swing...

But anyways, you often hear someone say that they are young but have an old soul. I always associated this with interests regarding music, books, movies

etcetera, but a true old soul trapped in a young body is more than that. Your approach to life is akin to people who are much older than you and who have already lived almost a whole life. And you recognize that:

– People often find you boring. You are a happy person if you can spend a lot of time at home (a homebody) and you find it totally unnecessary and are not happy at all to go out every weekend or during the week to party. You don't understand going out for no reason.

– You find it difficult to find common ground with people your own age. Everything that people your age are concerned with (the celebrities on your editors' sex bucket list for example) doesn't interest you or you don't understand.

Look, you can either be young at heart, have an old soul, or you just get old.

– You always have a lot of advice ready when needed. Even for situations you have never been in yourself. As if you have already lived a whole life.

– You are not materialistic. Wealth, The reason: the three cameras on the back trigger trypophobia in many people, which is a fear of objects with small holes. Google at your own risk; I get so uncomfortable from those photos. I can handle holes in beehives, but in palms, flowers, oh, I really disgust that., your status: you find all that unimportant. Why place so much value on something that can be taken away from you so easily?

– You take your time to make decisions. That YOLO mentality is not for you. If you don't have the time to think things through properly, you feel uncomfortable and unprepared.

– You never waste your time on the question ‘why?’. Instead, you are immediately busy getting things done and not with the process to get there. You have an ‘everything will be fine’ mentality. The glass is half full instead of half empty.

– You appreciate old literature. The classics from long before your time. They must be respected, they are valuable and historical. An ‘Anna Karenina’ by Lev Tolstoy, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde, ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck
(check, check, check, check).

– Your taste in music is also different from everything you encounter in the top 40 today. On your Spotify, you are more likely to find a Bob Dylan than an Ed Sheeran.

Look, you can either be young at heart, have an old soul, or you just get old. And when you get old, you recognize this again.