Old Souls

>>18267192
>20 somethings
20something who are 4chan neets
20something who are already working few years
20something who are still in uni
20something who are already married with kids

There are simple too many 20+ people with various wisdom, experience and maturity levels.

If you want gf, stop overthinking, make good photo and go
>>18250471 online dating. Or try friends friends or social events you hate.

>>18267192
Never heard of the term but I've mostly made friends with people above 40 years of age since I was 11.
With time I made peace with myself and learnt to see the beauty in the "young uns" and their naivety. Also I stopped being a pretentious cunt. It certainly got me more friends my age, but
>How am I suppose to get a girlfriend
I wouldn't know kek.

>>18267216

online dating is a meme. I feel confident enough to say I'm not a bad looking guy, but I've never had luck with any online dating I've tried.

31 male.
My only irl friend is a 60+ year old lady with cancer in her spine. We even go out to eat together at times. I have trouble identifying with people in that age group too (early to late 20's). Upon observation though, you wouldn't get that feeling, and even some of my coworkers are in their 20's so I'm forced to socialize. I don't mind it. But I realize in for exp my local music scene, I'll normally leave ppl alone; I feel disconnected. And finally when I make outreach, like maybe 1-4 people out of the hundreds I see I will be truly interested in, and maybe 2-3 I will actually say something to. Then, usually nothing very exciting comes of it.. even if we're compatible to some extent.

I feel like I should have died a looong time ago. I remember having that very thought as a kid. "Why am I not dead?" As if being alive was second to that. As I got older that feeling faded of course, but it revisits sometimes. The other competing feeling is, like I'm from somewhere thousands and thousands of years from now. Like I'd be happier in a future that is far more honest, far more transparent than what our current limited circumstances offer us. I get the feeling a lot of people feel that way though.

>>18267265
>never had luck
Maybe you ugly, bad photo, bad location, bad time, bad app. Or you just were impatient or havent tried to date ANY girl there.

Your other options are friends friends and social events. Do you have some excuse for that too?

How come no one feels as though they are the compilation of thousands of years of ancestors and are technically the combined personality and age of all of them?

>>18267192
They're calling you a grumpy dull cunt, you realise.

>>18267328
I've felt that. I feel like the younger generations are technically the older ones because of their chronological order too. But there again, maturity. But that's a pretty evolving term too..

>>18267299

>Your other options are friends friends and social events. Do you have some excuse for that too?

Yeah I do. I don't know how to meet friends of friends. And there isn't any social events in interested in other than like airshows and stuff. But girls don't go to those

>>18267527
>admits he doesn't know into socializing
>"online dating doesn't work guys!!"
literal mouth breather

>>18267537

How is that at all related?

>>18267549
how the fuck do you think online dating works
if you cant even have conversations irl that lead to friendship or gf how do you expect it to work online

Online dating is bottom of the barrel women who sleep around. No thanks. If you recommend Tinder to find a real relationship fuck off.

>>18267555

I'm not some basement dweller who leeches off his parents. I have a well paying full time job, i regularly go to the gym, and I study as well.

It's just hard for me to meet young people.

>>18267563
keep blaiming the technology then, can't be you no sir

>>18267565

I'm blaming you actually, it's your fault

>>18267571
still mouth breather behaviour desu

>>18267537
Online dating doesn't work. You cretins only recommend it for the sad losers who can't get a girl any other way, because it's an easy way to tell them to fuck off.

>>18267192
I am 24 and I've always felt out of place.
I am not an unattractive girl or even too socially awkward, but I always felt uncomfortable around people my age. And, yeah, I had some issues with dating and making friends and shit.

I have been lucky and I spent most of my youth with another "old soul", one of the best guys I've ever met. Now I am having some success with online dating to be honest, it's not a terrible advice.

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>>18267192

>old soul
>HOW GET GF!!?

>im just an 'old soul'
>online dating doesn't work even though im attractive

kek

>>18267583
i don't actively recomend online dating to anyone lol
anyone with more than half a brain knows that if you can't succeed irl it's not online dating that's suddenly going to work

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>>18267192
That saying is a meme and a fucking joke. People tell me that shit if I'm listening to Django Reinhardt or Buck Owens as if I don't listen to Cherub or Jamiroquai or Glassjaw.

It's also stupid because relatively, the 1930s are modern as fuck in the overall human timescale. I'm not an old soul for rrading Hemingway, I'd be an old soul if my intetests were hunting with an atlatl and wearing a loincloth while eating peote and drawing cave paintings.

Basically what you explained to me with the 20s vs 30s age gap is that you are desperate for stability and you never dreamed of anything better lr bigger than settling down and raising some kids in a McJob and a McMansion.

Maybe, just maybe, you're just afraid of the unknown. You're afraid to follow your pipe dream. And you're afraid to let go of your insecure ego and have fun and make mkstakes.

>>18267643

>this saying is a fucking joke

pretty much this. it simply means you have certain seemingly 'mature' personality aspects, but they tend to balance out.

I get called that a lot at work because I work with and relate to people who are mostly 50s and older, and handle the workload of someone who's been in the biz a lot longer.

but i also go home and watch cartoons and and play lasertag.

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>>18267192
>old souls

The struggle of being a low energy beta male with awful hormone levels and xenoestrogen through the roof

I used to be called an 'old soul' because I had esoteric taste in music and dress, and used to read a lot of older literature and philosophy. I was also incredibly 'chill' which often meant depressed and tired.

Oddly, as soon as I addressed my low energy and started working out, eating right, spending time outdoors and going to social events, I haven't been called an "old soul" once

Something to think about Op. liking the past doesn't make you an old soul - it just means you share the taste and philosophy of a whole generation of people and it just so happens that that generation has been dead/aged for a while now. I like people like you who don't think old = uneducated or irrelevant, but really think about why your personality is so "old" - you should be high energy chasing your goals at this age, and old and melancholic later, so see if it's your sleep, exercise and hormones.

>>18267606

>you can't succeed irl it's not online dating that's suddenly going to work

That's a huge generalization. there are many people who go into online dating because their life doesn't have many opportunities to meet women. The problem, the men on online dating vastly outnumber the women. So attractive women are rare.

I have a busy life. I work a lot, I study a lot, I go to the gym. On my days off, that's time I just want to be by myself and relax. I don't see women during my daily routine. So, if I wanted to start dating. Online would really be my only route, unless i forced myself to shitty bars

>>18267192
>tfw 17 year old in a 27 year old's body
Growing up is a fucking meme. The way most people use "maturity" is synonymous with being dead inside. There's no reason why one can't be well informed and self sufficient as a youth or adolescent.

>>18267192
>I've been called that before by people
You're just acting your age, the problem with today's society is it's filled with infantile adults, someone acting mature is incredible to them, a few decades ago and you'd be completely normal.

>>18267880

So what should I do?

>>18268012
grow up and realize the world you live in

>>18268016

>grow up

But you just said I'm acting mature

Old souls are what I call the girls 10+ years younger than me so it doesn't seem as creepy when I date them. It doesn't really mean much.

>>18267879

this is prettty true. i mean when you look at a lot of successful people they often have really immature aspects ot themselves. its relaly about balance.

its kinda like someone saying you're 'smart'. we think of it as an all encompassing intelligence when in reality people tend to be smart in some areas but not in other areas just based on where their interests take them.

we tend to be 'mature' in one way, but immature in others.

>>18267192
>i dont know how to socialise and im resentful of people
>internet: "youre an old soul and better than everyone else."
>that must be it

Dude thats all bullshit. Use the internet and find people who like you. Meet them.

>>18268062

>I don't know how to socialize

Where do you get that from?

>>18268083
You literally admit you have difficulty connecting with people your own age in the OP.
That could easily mean you were that kid who always hung out with the teachers and sucked at making friends. Now, older, you still hang out with the older people and can't connect with people your own age and claim its due to your "uniqueness"

>>18268156

I'm not trying to say I'm unique. But I just have more common interests with older people. I'm actually hanging out with 3 40 something's who are former police officers and they are telling me stories while we watch a police show. This is way more interesting to me than going to a concert, or going on a Color Run while drunk.

I just find older people things more interesting. (Politics, world events, stocks, real estate)

>>18267192
Fuck old souls! One is currently ruining my life!

>>18267676
>>18267643
You guys are reading too much into it, IMO. I get called an old soul sometimes. Usually this happens when I'm around new people and don't know how to act yet. I can easily offend people sometimes so I like to gauge what they are like a bit, and as a result I act subdued or aka like an "old soul" or "more mature". That or I'll just be in a certain mood and put on slower, softer music and this results in me being an old soul; they're surprised somehow that not everyone my age listens to the same exact music.
But on their end, it doesn't mean anything. It's an observation meant to be taken as a compliment. But if you acted some other way, they'd compliment you based on that, because some people just like to hand out compliments.