Remember when you thought "Grown Up's" Existed

I remember being young thinking i would some day grow up. I am now 25 and i feel no different then when i was 12 (albeit more mature). Now i find that all those grown ups were jerks and were forcing ideals into me that were pure crap. i miss thinking i would someday grow up to be "Somebody" lol

 

I know exactly what you mean

I feel like I did when I was 12, and yet I've traveled around the world, gone to college, spent four years in the military, and now I'm working in the private sector - go figure


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i remember when i was in 2nd grade thinking how much calmer and more mature 3rd graders were. and wondering if i'd be like that when i got to be that age.

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i feel like i havent changed since i was 8 and when i told my friend that she says she can believe it. lol

 

i remember when i was young i came up with the idea that my parents were born the age they are and there was no way in hell they could have been kids once just like me i think i convinced my self they were aliens or something.... hrm maybe they are. I feel i have changed alot since i was younger i think thats also because i was quiet and shy so i tried to put my self in different situations as i got older to change that about me.

 

i was about 9 when i realized that "grown-ups" were simply older more fucked up human beings

 

I dont believe you.

I love the question though, and it is one i sometimes use to trip people out.

 

Yep, I'm with you there. I had the world firmly divided into 'kids' and 'grown-ups', with a teeny kind of transitional stage in between. It's quite funny now, like I thought we were freakin' caterpillars, and one day we would 'change' and...I guess be equipped with all the knowledge and expertise needed to be adults.
This has not happened. Oh dear.
Actually I've been waiting for this 'grown-up-head-maturity-change' for a few years now, I mean I don't really feel all that different to when I was 14...
What's scary is that I imagined that it was going to be like this:
1. Grow up
2. Commence grown-up life, do all the things that grown-ups do
3. ???
4. Profit
Then I look around and oops...I appear to have progressed directly to stage 2, I'm out of uni, got a proper job... I've only bloody gone and grown up without noticing it...and still feel not-very-different. I just know more.
...of course then, you remember when you were a kid, watching the boooring grown-ups do...whatever they did, and you realise that at least some of them must have felt exactly like I do now. They were faking it too, damn it!
I don't know if some people do 'grow up' like I used to imagine, but I do know that a good proportion don't. Hell, my parents still haven't.
Since this post is obscenely long anyway, I might as well compound the problem with this, think it sums up my views nicely;

 

adult. what is that? well i'm almost 52 now (never thought i would live that long!) never been married or, had kids. even as a little kid, i realize the vast majority of "adults," are just big fuck-up kids. all i saw about "grown ups," taught me to never have kids! i just could not bare to let my kids get fuck over by "adults" like i was!

 

yeah i remember this

then i also remembered that people copy each other. kind of like a copy cat

there all like "i wish i can call some one a kid" when there 12

then they grow older then there like "yay my dream came true and stuff yay"

 

heh heh it cracks me up, 25 year olds talking about when they were young ...

 

im still a kid.....i know im 20 and meant to know how to look after myself by now, but i just dont....i dont know how adults manage all these things like cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, ironing etc..............wow minefield.....where do they find the time with nickolodeon and cartoon network on all thru the day???

 

dude i remember being in first grade, and thinking that 5th graders were so old and on some completely different age level than me. high school and college weren't even fathomable to me -those were grown ups!

but now that im in college i think even high schoolers are really young, its so bizarre. i feel so old!

 

Well... I used to think that grown-ups know everything and that they could do anything they wanted to. Lol. And I grew up to find that adults too make mistakes, that they're not perfect and that no adult can always do what he wishes to.