7 Theories About You That Will Make You Question Everything
3. You're Older Than You Think
You might well be in the throes of a quarter-life crisis, but it might already be too late for that.
If you're 25, for example, you could be glib and say that you're 25 years and 9 months old, including the time you spent in the womb. At that point you were just a bunch of cells but, if we take the point even further, one of those cells was much older than the rest.
Your mother was born with all of the eggs she'll ever have, including the one that eventually became you and contains half of your DNA, this could arguably be when you first existed. So, if your mum was 25 when she had you, this might well bump you up to a nice round 50 years in existence. Better make that a mid-life crisis then.
If you want to get really existential, there is a part of you that is even older than that. Your DNA can be traced back to the very first organisms on the planet, meaning that there is a little string of stuff in your body that has been around in one way or another, for over 3 billion years.