I really need to know why one should lie about his/her age?,does your body change Biologically if you lied about your age ?,i really thik that it is good to always tell the truth about our age becaouse this can even help us to know/forcus well on all that we aim for. For you what do you think?.

Yes, brother it is for the fool who ruin their feutue with distestable thing. Or,people who have been disobedien to parent in thier young stage of generation.[people who figth for good and good will not be for them].

I'm 52 years old. One of my dear friends is a lovely woman, she's married, I'm friends with both she and her husband. A while back we were talking about things a long time ago. I realized that I couldn't place her age exactly so I asked. She told me that she never tells her age. Actually, I knew it is considered a rude question here, but because she sucha good friend I didn't worry.

Not saying is not the same as lying. But it's a bit similar. I think people don't like to say their age because then people make assumptions they shouldn't. Would I think my friend less beautiful, less a full person if she was older or younger than I thought? Because she's such a good friend I'm sure it wouldn't matter to me. But I do understand that it might matter to others.

So I'm old now, but not so old that I don't see beauty in others. I'm old enough that I happen to know the ages of some very beautiful women, and I know they are older than others might expect. I'll always keep their age a secret, because I want people to imagine them in all their lovely possibility.

I am old. Some days I feel older than dirt. But it is only my body that feels old. I still have a heart and mind that feels pretty much the same as it did when I was Ezra's age [oops...how old are you Ezra? ;-)] except I have a whole lot more knowledge and experience. I wouldn't trade that knowledge and experience for a younger body for any amount of money.

I know that I am nearly 36 years wiser, more knowledgeable, experienced and compassionate than I was when I was 25.

(Even John is young compared to me!)

I just want to know what prompted this rant!

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Ezra obiga said:

Linda Nowakowski said.

I am old. Some days I feel older than dirt. But it is only my body that feels old. I still have a heart and mind that feels pretty much the same as it did when I was Ezra's age [oops...how old are you Ezra? ;-)] except I have a whole lot more knowledge and experience. I wouldn't trade that knowledge and experience for a younger body for any amount of money.

oops...i made 24 on 3rd / January/ 2008 ( this year) otherwise,i have a friend of mine,he went for an interview in Mobil Telephon Network company known as MTN here in uganda,he is 28 years old.so for the job he had gone for, one of the qualications was a person with years beween 30-35 to 40.so he did apply but before he wanted some advise from but i really had a hard time with him about the age thing(i thank God it never worked),he did not get the job.

one health doctor in one of his speaches that years are so important and that it is so good for one to know and always say the right age.He said that the medicine that is made,it is made for different ages.for those bellow 10 can`t have the same doze with those above 10 in "some" Diseases.

But just as linder said "I wouldn't trade that knowledge and experience for a younger body for any amount of money." then why would one trade what they have for a younger body for any amount of money?. Now days may people are lying thier age and it`s has made doctor give petients dozes that are either less or over what they are surposed to have hance loosing lives of many people.

This is a very interesting topic!! for some reasons people lie about their ages because of jobs or love/marriage, for instance a JOB is advertised seeking for people within perhaps 25 to 30. A person of 24 and 31,32 and more will have to lie inorder to get this job. Am asking any body here, would you like to loose job because of underage or over age?

Another thing men tend to ask women about their ages when they intend to have relationship with them. But one funny thing is that most ladies dont tell their exact ages because they want to be young every year!! A girl who said was 20 in 2006 is still 20 in 2008! most men here in developing world dont lie about their ages but about their incomes. if you want to burn your fingers, ask a man how much he earns.

Peter , I think it's a general problem not ladies' only ( this is being gender bias). I have experience with my primary school headteacher , who for the seven years that I was at that school he was ever 25 years . So I would say like in Uganda here for many people who are working it's because of retirement purposes mainly, because the retirement age is 55 years and I don't think anybody would like to be 55 years that soon and that could be a very genuine excuse, since there is no way you can get any other employment, not even one on contract, so why wouldn't someboby lie about his/her age.

Ndelo peter said;-

But one funny thing is that most ladies don't tell their exact ages because they want to be young every year!! A girl who said was 20 in 2006 is still 20 in 2008.

I think peter is right to a certain extent,why do i say so.I have a friend and for her three years make up a year in other wards her year has 36 months and that is when she will become another year old.Just look at such a thing,to me it really makes no sense,it carries no weight. In for the truth ,it is good and it carries weight when one always said his/her right age because you you move by that,it will help you even in doing the right thing at a right time and in a right place. Today many people are doing things that are not ov there sizes and have ended up kicking their goals/dreams off the road to their future.Most people have ended up in marriages that they where not yet ready for hence living many children on streets. let us be right with our ages.some people think being old is not a fancy thing.And as for me,my plans are together with my age.this helps me to know if i am achieving/moving towards my dreamland and if not,i make sure i see the problem and over come it to keep going.As for those who lie about there age,they lag development behind.

"):-....But one funny thing is that most ladies don't tell their exact ages because they want to be young every year!! A girl who said was 20 in 2006 is still 20 in 2008!..."

"):-..,I think it's a general problem not ladies' only ( this is being gender bias). I have experience with my primary school head teacher , who for the seven years that I was at that school he was ever 25 years...."

Hey,do you really,really,really think it is good to lie about your age?.

Oh my God.this problem is so big every where.i think peole lie about thier age in exchange for something,like jobs and for the most in love.the old always want to be young.To me i dont see any problem with one liying about his/her age becaoue i did it so much and it has helped me move on with life.

Hy.do you mean,you are moving your life on telling lies?,may be you need to prove that.i think then if it is klike that,the "thing" age,is loosing it`s meaning.tell me is it the age that turns one young or the looks?.People,age is a respect and there fore lets do the right thing.

I don't think this thread is really about aging but rather about lying. (lying about one's age is just the sub-topic)

Is that what started all of this, Ezra??

Being affronted by peoples dishonesty?

Am a new comer on ned, What am sure the reason why people lie is that they do not want be old so by lying of thier age is the only way to keep them young.

Well, I am sure you have a point. Older people do sometimes try to stay young by fibbing about their age but young people fib too because they want to be older.

I have always thought it was funny. When we are young, we can't wait to grow up and be older than we are. I have one daughter who on the day after her 11th birthday started saying she was almost twelve. Then when she was 14 she wanted to be 15 or better yet 16. And all of us couldn't wait to be 18 or 21 because then we could be an adult.

Now when we get older, we only want to be young. It seems much better to be 30 something than to be in the 40's and the fifties sound much better than being in your 60's.

There is no perfect age, there is only age. Wouldn't it be nice to just be happy at whatever age you are. When we are young we should realize that being 10 or 13 or 16 is something we can only experience once in our lifetime and we should enjoy it to the fullest. And no matter how many lies are told, we all will get older. Whats so bad about that?

This is an interesting topic! And one of the things I find interesting is that this is true both in Uganda and in the U.S. Is it true everywhere? If so, there must be something very deep at work.

Leaving aside whether it is good or not, here are some reasons I can think of why people might lie about their age: *to be able to do things they wouldn't be able to do at their real age *for status *to appear more experienced than they are *to be more desirable as a romantic partner

Those are some pretty big reasons! I hadn't thought about this before because I don't think it had occurred to me to be worried about my age. I have been very lucky not to want to hurry up and be older when I was young, and I don't feel I need to be younger now that I am 39 (yes, I really am 39, and I'll be 39 only once). But if I could only get a job if I were under 35, I think that would be difficult!

Garle you are right this thread is not against the old people rather young people but why some one tends to lie about his or her age, some one's lying about age depends on what he/she wants to achieve and what requires to achieve it

With age there is nothing any one do about it because each year it will continue to add it self, so for you may think that no one will know you true age but with time you will start showing off your age by your appaerance. were by people will start saying that so and so is ageing and even guesing your age. So its useless to lie of your own ag e because its part of you latter the trueth will come out.

Jassica , with these cosmetics and mordern salons, dont think people will get old today.

Evvy said.....

There is no perfect age, there is only age. Wouldn't it be nice to just be happy at whatever age you are. When we are young we should realize that being 10 or 13 or 16 is something we can only experience once in our lifetime and we should enjoy it to the fullest. And no matter how many lies are told, we all will get older. Whats so bad about that?.

Indeed,we can only exerience thic once in our lifetime and truelly,we just have to enjoy it to life time,thanks so much Evvy,truelly,thanks to God for those great wards you wrote.

Ah in fact,for those who tell there years lower than what they are in order to get a job they are so wrong.they should put in there minds that it is not about how old you are but it is all about how mush do you know.there fore in case one gets the oppotunity,we should use it and learn may be some thing but we should do and get the best from that opotunity for that we will see how good it is to move overcoming our bordens because we have the knowledge.let's not be like the Barbon monachs in the european histry who learnt nothing and forgot nothing. for the more we lie,it wil be the more we will fail(be losers)in life.

Ezra said Ah in fact,for those who tell there years lower than what they are in order to get a job they are so wrong.they should put in there minds that it is not about how old you are but it is all about how mush do you know.there fore in case one gets the oppotunity,we should use it and learn may be some thing but we should do and get the best from that opotunity for that we will see how good it is to move overcoming our bordens because we have the knowledge.let's not be like the Barbon monachs in the european histry who learnt nothing and forgot nothing. for the more we lie,it wil be the more we will fail(be losers)in life.

I think whoever lies about his/her age cheats himself/herself. maybe for health reason peopl of certain age should not do certain job, and you have lied.

...wow,i think you are right peter.to lie about the age is not good a thing to do at list for the case of health of which it is also not good because you are risking your life.

My God,Ezra said;let's not be like the Barbon monachs in the european histry who learnt nothing and forgot nothing.

He also said; for the more we lie,it wil be the more we will fail(be losers)in life.

for the statements he made are true,when the barbon monachs learnt nothing and forgot nathing,that one made them failurs infact they became loosers. I to there for concer with ezra that it is really not about the age,it is about how much you can do.so let us be happy and enjoy our age because it comes at once.

yipi,what a topic.infact,lying about age is a very common thing acording to my research everywhere.there is one thing i still do not understant why a person should lie about his or her age.is it bat to grow?.it really show that people do not know what they want.when one is young,he or she want to grow very fast and now, you have grown then youwant to be young(what an imposible thing to happen).thanks ezra for puting this topic up.we have to make this whole world wide a better place to live in with the thuth in not only our hands(in what we do)but also in our wards( in what we speack). therefore,lying about age is no good at all.

natuarally, i learnt that age is all about numbers.

men grow old, pearls grow yellow, in fact, there is no cure for it. to me youth is a disease form which we all recover.

one thing realise, no woman should quite be accurate about her age. it looks so caluclating !

hey gays,how are you all,woooo,i realu did't know that this in the whole world,there is at last something common.i here accurace about the age.this thig age is what all of us should be proud of and therefore telling the right age you are costs you more good than harm see you all.

Katonya arnold said

"one thing realise, no woman should quite be accurate about her age. it looks so caluclating!"

i think it is not true,but why is it women always.men do lie about there age to,let us stop judging who lies most.both men and women lie about their age.thought i also stand farm and sy stop lieing about your age.