When people ask how old I am, I sometimes say 13.8 billion years old.
It’s the most accurate answer, even if it’s perhaps not what they meant.
We are all 13.8 billion years old, as far as we know.
As Carl Sagan said, we are the local eyes, ears, feelings, and thoughts of the universe bringing itself into consciousness.
We are part of the ongoing evolution of this universe as it explores, expresses, and brings itself into consciousness through us and other beings.
Everything that we are is this old. The matter we are made up of has gone through a 13.8 billion year process to be formed into this human form. Our mind reflects the evolution of our ancestors and their environments, the Earth as a whole, and the universe. Our body and mind are the product of 13.8 billion years of evolution of this universe.
And we are also timeless. We are what it all – this universe and the universe in the form of this human self – happens within and as.
As who we are, we are whatever age is in our passport, and we are also as old as this universe. As what we are, we are that which all of this happens within and as.