Youth is fleeting

To everyone who's ever told me, "You're young. You'll be alright.", I feel the need to say this.

I'll be 25 this July. By all accounts, I still have youth on my side. But youth, is relative to how long you're going to live. I never make assumptions about that. And that's certainly not me being bleak. Just conscious of my mortality. I think you're just as old as the next person.

Please don't trivialise my experiences by telling me that I'm young.