posted on Jul, 16 2022 @ 09:00 PM
I got told I looked twelve when I was buying beer for the 4th of July. I was kind of offended at first, but then when she started flirting with me it
became rather awkward.
I usually get that I look like I'm in my early twenties. It's not often that someone actually guesses that I'm in my early thirties.
I'd say it's mostly good genes, eating right, staying hydrated, and not getting sunburnt too often.
Honestly, if I wasn't a two to four pack a day smoker and borderline alcoholic and spending quite a bit of time out in the open waters under the sun
for a substantial amount of my late teens and early twenties I probably would look like a baby.
I'm glad that I'm still pretty healthy for all the crap I've been put through and put myself through. I feel like I'm too young to have the aches and
pains I've got, but I've lived a rough life so I guess it's just the nature of things.
Hell, I think it's hilarious that I'm starting to get more back hairs. Sometimes I'll be scratching my back and feel a two or three incher hangind out
all by itself until I yank that bad boy out, and I'm glad that I've still got hair on my head despite every other man on my mother's side of the
family being bald by 18-20. I'm actually pretty happy to see that my temples are greying. I always wanted that look.
But really, and this is an unprofessional opinion, but everything I've read and looked up leads me to hold the opinion that people judge age by
physical appearance.
A major factor in physical appearance is pretty much the skin, specifically the skin on one's face.
Certainly a major selling point of makeup, which has even had an uptick of sales with heterosexual men who wish to hide their own blemishes.
But there's limitations. It's far more easy to guess a person's age by looking at the skin on their hands, joints, neck, etc.
When you do things that cause your skin to lose elasticity, and cause the health of your veins to deteriorate it becomes harder to hide.
So, wear sunscreen, eat right, maintain a moderate exercise routine, stay hydrated on the right stuff and your skin and veins will thank you.
Other physical factors, in my opinion, are things such as posture and how one walks.
If you hobble around or have trouble walking you're either old, have some sort of affliction, or inebriated.
There's things like how one conversates, how healthy their eyes look, etc. Their hair. It all comes together to give a somewhat close ball park age
range that if someone asks me how old I think they are I'm usually either right on the money or only a year off in either direction.
But the main indicators of old age or at least # lifestyle for me is wrinkles, sagging skin, varicose veins (all caused by loss of elasticity), dull
eyes, bad teeth without indicators of drug use, dentures if their obviously not young.(illness or bad diet).