What causes people to change drastically from their younger selves?

Fall from Eden. As people mature and find their places in the society, their lifestyles drifts away from the way they as beings are meant to live their lives. They indulge in drugs and sex, stress a lot, defeat their own mind with unrealistic expectations and unserving abstractions. They are unwilling to grow further, and not completely aware of what they are missing. Done right, maturing should only increase your baseline happiness.

Shit happens, there you go m8, godspeed.

You don't see the reality better as you age. You see it worse due all the accumulated cognitive baggage. Bullshit abstractions, ideals, expectations, rules and so on. The mind of a baby is a relatively blank state, uncorrupted by bad experiences, thoughts and deeds.

28?
Sauce?
More like 21/22yo max.

>The mind of a baby is a relatively blank state
iow completely ignorant. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is what causes it. forbidden fruit etc

You have less energy.

>What causes people to change drastically from their younger selves?I remember seeing grown ups always depressed and pathetic. Vowing to myself to never be like that.But i did without even realizing it till now.
When we were kids we used to be sheltered from this abominable world, mainly because we didn't have to interact with it, we were still living as we should have been for the most part. If you look around you in this current day an age you will see even toddlers and children are fucking depressed an can barely get through life. I have a nephew who is 12, that kid has the 1000 yard stare I am not even kidding I don't know what the fuck is going on with them. Same with every kid I know, destroyed spiritually because I cant put it otherwise. They are fucking misserable

This. Buddhist/Taoist’s had it right imo.
You need to be as peaceful and aligned as possible with yourself and Heaven.

social media and public schooling are destroying kids' brains

I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. You were probably always pathetic

monke

Sexual trauma from growing up.

We're disconnected from our child selves because we're ashamed of them. Thinking about yourself before that is like exposing yourself naked to a child but that child is you.

For the boys it's mainly boners/fapping and for girls it's menstruation.

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Material knowledge is delusion. Hence why lack of it is bliss. Ignorance is a word invented by an intellectually insecure mind. What will he be without his knowledge? Ignorant? No, that's what he already is.

Yeah, the schools of thought you mention provide a practical guide to virtuous living where the Christian framework falls a little short.

I mean when we were kids we would still play with other kids, go outside, interact with adults normally, respect our elders etc, now kids cant play outside because they either don't want to, they have no one to play with, they need to be constantly bombarded with stimuli since that's all they ve ever known through tv games and internet. they can interact with adults because every adult is out to get them, everyone is some kind of pedophile, instead of the actual tranny pedophile, they are okay, they read stories in libraries, they don't respect their elders because they barely see them as human anymore because of some psyop or something.

Anons ( everyone over 20-25 I guess) Our path withered as we grew old , but the current generation is being raised on the stuff that that we know ruined our lives, They will never know there has been a different way of life

And no I'm not saying expose yourself to children but just think about meeting your younger self in your mind's eye and becoming "one"

allow what was lagging behind out of shame to catch up

i was depressed at 12, it happens a lot. called puberty

Death is bliss yet when there's nothing else to compare it to or feel is it really bliss? We suffer because we feel bliss in reverse. We're alive to suffer.

Love has no meaning or concept. Life is love.

Become meaningless because that's the only truth.

>i was depressed at 12, it happens a lot. called puberty
I was depressed ever since I could form thoughts and by 16 I was on schizophrenia meds and alcoholic and at 17 I ended up in a looney bin. I tell it wasn't because of puberty, I never ever felt like I was going through puberty since its not as importat as it is in the US, it just something that happens and kids get through without thinking about it

Less energy, lack of purpose in life. Realizing that nothing matters. For me personally the loss of my son made me not give a fuck about anything. Now i'm on autopilot waiting for the end.

You matured too fast.

Become a kid again. Mature in reverse.

>Death is bliss yet when there's nothing else to compare it to or feel is it really bliss?
Would anything really be anything when you are dead?

>We're alive to suffer.
>Love has no meaning or concept.
>Life is love.
Pick one. If life is about suffering and life is love but love has no meaning, you have just created a statement that is self-contradictory in ways more than one.

>lack of purpose in life
This is a good thing. The problem is we are told we MUST have meaning and not given a reason for why.

Jobs for instance. There's no reason to keep society working anymore yet we absolutely MUST get a job if we want to be somebody.

Well I say, be nobody. Become free in mind, body and spirit.

You can experience death as you are alive right now. It's not that we've died before but death isn't real. There is no "prelife" because there is no "afterlife" only now.

Now is the supreme perception, time viewed from every possible angle.

Just imagine you or someone dying then focus "in" on everything and you'll start feeling a weird laughter/bliss like undertone to it then dip yourself in it. We're in a sea of orgasmic bliss but it's only so because we're formed solid from it and keep ourselves like that. When we get killed or die we start experiencing bliss and gradually forget who we are. Nobody has a true name or personality those are artificial and part of the dream.

>You matured too fast.
I do agree with what you said earlier about kids becoming old too fast, I even notice when I am at my worst stages of depression I turn to the things that made me happy as a kid. I am kind of lost and I burned out early, my body especially got fucked by all the meds (pic related), I also cant remember almost anything from my teens other than the constant dread

>This is a good thing. The problem is we are told we MUST have meaning and not given a reason for why.
I also agree with this, its a pointless burden that does more harm than good. as cioran put it

“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything

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