A Matter of Age

I was having a chat on the phone with my best friend Bea a while back and I remember she mentioned something about how I take a person's age seriously.

"You are the only person I ever met who is so into age," she said.

I laughed but it is true. Not long ago, this guy popped up in my life but I always had a problem with his age--or more specifically, the amount of time he was born after me. I've always liked guys who were at least a year older than me and more often than not a few years more than that but my friend pointed out that I had a problem with this certain guy just because he was born two days after my birthday. XDD

I remember how she told me that though. "You would like guys two-three years your senior but you won't like this guy just because he's two days younger than you" XDDD. God. I did see the sillyness of that but that's just me, okay?

So why is age a factor to me? Simple: I dunno. XDD. Maybe because we all grew up thinking that with age comes maturity which is true, BTW. The more years you have in your age, the more maturity you have except we all know that law doesn't really apply to boys since they take longer to mature(I clearly typed BOYS and not men okay).

It seemed a bit weird in a way sometimes when you like someone who's a year younger than you but actually isn't. I think of it this way sometimes; I'm born in the year 1994 and the guy was born in 1995 when actually that guy was born a few months after I first entered this world(Take note I am using my old crush as an example. HA!). It's one thing if the guy was born in 1995 and his birth date is waaaay beyond mine(like anything after October 15, if you ask me); that's already a year young. Even if the guy is just a few months younger than me, some people I know will still find it a bit scandalous when I tell them the dude was born in 1995 while I was born in 1994.

In this teenage society I have to live in, being younger than the guy you like is kinda taboo. A lot of people are open minded about semi-cougar love these days though I still remember the shock my friends had when I told them I liked this guy who was around my sister's age(mga two years my junior). When you think about it then, I was 14 who's clearly crushing on a 12 year old. If they just knew he wasn't some short, scrawny totoy type. He's actually the opposite of that. Haaaay. XDD

In the end, age will always matter to me(halata naman di ako papatol sa 75 year old o sa 6 years old) but personality will always count, too.What's the point if I like someone who's older than me but his attitude is just blah and awful? It doesn't always equally mean the younger guys will be better than the older men after I say that, though. It's just every guy is different just as we girls are, too. I care about age, yes, but I am not blinded by it so much that I don't notice his character and attitude. Somehow, personality will always be more important regardless of the year the dude was born in. :)