Do you ever miss your childhood?

Miss my childhood?

I miss just last year.

 

Exactly! That's what made it so fun.

Huh, now you phrase it this way, perhaps I never really left it all that far behind; I'm quite talented at emotional capriciousness and irresponsibility! Or at least I've never enjoyed jumping though the hoops society wants you to, and find great pleasure in capriciousness of all sorts.

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I also miss my childhood because it was a time of wonder and having grown up on 240 wooded acres, in the wilderness of northern Michigan, with no video games/computers, & only two channels on the TV, so that riding horses, reading, long walks in the woods with my dog , swimming, exploring, and observing nature were the main things I did growing up...and we never went to church; closest neighbor was a mile away. Now, the world seems so much more hemmed in, confined, and artificial. It's been hard, adjusting; in fact, I never have.

 

I have mixed feelings about my childhood, even though I'm still technically a child at the moment. On the one hand, looking back at the early 2000's and 2010's in terms of music and shows, yeah I miss it.

But on the other, when I look back on things it makes me feel physically ill. Some of the stuff I believed was messed up and I only really realise this now. I feel a lot more hopeful about the future and a lot less repressed and depressed than I used to be. Just thinking about certain things is making me feel kinda queasy. :tears:

 

Yes. It was an easier time. I had tons of friends and no health problems. I was a lot happier.

 

Sometimes, yeah. There are so many things I miss.

 

If ever a lesson is to be learned from childhood, it is to listen to the wisdom of older people.

We must all have had some old person tell us how they wished they'd taken more notice of their elders when they were a kid. We never took any notice as we all thought "Yeah, but it was different in your day". Only to realise that it wasn't all that different to now.

I'm often telling my niece and nephew but somehow I get the impression they're thinking exactly the same as I did when I was their age.

 

You shouldn't listen to your elders solely on the premise that they're older than you. Like anyone, you should decide whether to listen to them based on the content of their words - and their actions. My family is a dysfunctional mess with lying, backstabbing and constant arguing - these are not people that I pay much attention to, and the only thing I have learnt from them over the years is what not to do and how not to behave - by example.

 

Yeah, I do. I'm not too old, but I sometimes think how life was easier in so many ways back then...

 

Yeah, it would be culture shock. My Grandpa had a ton of land, and he moved from the U.P. to Grand Rapids before he died. THAT was a culture shock too. He lived there until he was 75 though. I mean originally, he lived down here, but he moved up there in his early 30's.

As far as me, I think I would have gotten into some serious trouble if I was a teen growing up now. If I knew half the stuff I know now then(mainly thanks to the internet) about sex, I would have done a lot more experimenting. I didn't get my own computer with internet until I was 17(2000). And the 2000 version of the internet was so much more basic than today. Oh, and the pop-ups, you kids will never know how many porn pop-ups we had to deal with then. It was like a cascade of pop-ups, and these were commercial sites too. :lol:

 

It's less that I miss my childhood specifically, but rather a desire of having the responsibilities (or lack thereof) as I had as a child. Ignorance is indeed bliss, and I feel, in relative comparison to my peers, I am still behind in adapting to what society is now.

 

NO, because I am still living it! I AM STILL A LEGIT GUY LIVING IN HIS CHILDHOOD DAYS!!! It is when I perfected earth bending I will be a legit adult! Or when I collected 20 badges from different gyms! Or master the Wingardium Leviosa spell! Or call the Green Dragonzord!

 

Not one bit. It was hard and rough. Granted whatever experiences I've had have helped me develop as a person, but the experiences themselves, as there were so many bad ones, it's certainly not something I can say I miss but it's certainly something I wish I could change.

 

There are some good memories. Overall, no, I don't miss it. My mother was very selfish, jealous & possessive. Besides being physically, emotionally & verbally abusive. I was mainly raised by my grandma, thankfully. But, I came from a very strict religious upbringing, so, there were many things I didn't get to do. Those things caused social anxiety in me as well. My younger years weren't that enjoyable. As I got into high school, it was better. I've had ups & downs as an adult. Going through cancer, for one. Even so, I've been an adult much longer than a kid & must say, I prefer this & look forward to the future.

 

Back then all i needed was toys, video games and candies... Now that got substituted by love and sex... I think the former three are simpler and more stable sources of joy, so if could i would change my sex drive and romantic desires for my previous love for toys, video games and candies i would do so.