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Originally Posted by faith1985
It amazes me that he uses twitter for these kinds of expressions, I mean he is a grown man and not a teenager.
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That brings up something that struck me awhile ago: I read a quote from Richie where he said the rock and roll lifestyle keeps you young. While I think he was referring to looks with that quote --(this was around the release of 'Aftermath', where many interviewers were commenting on how good he looked) --it might be an example of staying mentally or emotionally young, too.
I can think of any number of ways you could argue that Richie might be mentally/emotionally younger than most 50-somethings (that I know, at least):
1. Ava apparently having to give him an age limit on women Richie dates;
2. Richie calling Ava his 'angel' and 'savior' (a sweet thing to say, but puts a lot of 'responsibility' on the shoulders of a teenager;
3. The whole open-shirt debate and people complaining that it doesn't look good on a 54-year-old man, as well as the debate about what Ava is 'allowed' to wear and whether that is too 'adult' for a teenager;
4. Whether or not Richie might be 'impressionable' regarding the influence of others, like Nikki or Sean Borg;
5. The occasional times where fans lash out at him on Twitter and he posts defensive-sounding gibberish, then backtracks and said he was hacked;
6. The comment he made in 'WWWB' about how his job was to keep Jon happy;
7. This latest example of not knowing who he is.
Generally speaking -- (and this only makes sense if any of these above examples hold truth in any way) -- those who define their worth by others' 'approval' of them usually, at some point, 'wake up' and realize they've been inauthentic to themselves. Problem is, they don't know "who" they really are.
Just another theory...could be wildly off base of course.