I just don't think I can do it, I'm 22 and miss being a teen already. Adults were always so far away from me I never imagined I'd be there, I really don't want to be there... I liked being young, free to have fun with little responsibility. I always cringed at the thought of being an adult and now I'm here. Everything in the adult world is so serious, feels surreal that I will live the rest of my life as one and never get a chance to go back to a simpler time...
Also I wasted my youth so these feelings are compounded
Thomas Brown
People don't grow up anymore. Most 40 year olds i talk to have the same personality as a freshman in college. Basically people now live in a state of permanent adolescence, because there is no incentive to "act like an adult", and shaping behaviors through shaming doesn't exist anymore. So don't worry OP, you can be a loser your whole life, everyone else is doing it
Lincoln Nelson
Im 32, I still feel as if I was 16-17 in my head... nothing changes.
Don't grow up if you don't have to. The only part you have to deal is to be self sufficient.
No one actually feel "Adult"... those who claim they do are deranged psychopath.
Jacob Rogers
28 here. I wish I could go back to being 22. That was the time of my life. When I was 16 I was also just chilling all day playing vidya with friends. Once you start working fulltime life gets pretty boring
Logan Johnson
Ideally you have a string of accomplishments that you build on as you grow older. Start a career, have a family, get your life together.
Zachary Hall
It just happens. Someday you'll be stoked because you bought yourself a new vacuum. The highlight of your weekend will be mowing the lawn and having a beer afterwards. When you get older, your interest and outlook will change, and that's okay. It's okay to miss your youth, but you gotta move on.
Charles Wilson
I sure hope so for my sake
But you know what will happen in this case? Basically that will set the new standard for adultness, so in turn kids will be even more childish/differently childish, but we won't see it that way, we will see the new standards as the norm. I think it's already happening, kids now already seem younger than kids pre-2000s, look at this picture and compare it to modern tiktok teens, these teens pictured seem more like adults to me
31 here. Things don't get better. If you take anything away from this post it should be to enjoy your youthfulness. Enjoy it as much as possible. Don't squander your time.
Kayden Morgan
I'm 29 and would kill someone to get 7 years back. Enjoy life you fucking sperg.
Landon Martin
Yeah
I was a shut in, a literal fucking hikikomori-tier shut in... what a fucking mistake I made
Christian Anderson
>. It's okay to miss your youth, but you gotta move on What if you missed your youth, so you cant move on because you didnt even experience it?
Nolan Lewis
What are you doing now with your existence?
Alexander Wilson
Nothing...
I really need to change but it's so hard and with quarantine I'm right back at square one
Oliver Bailey
It saddens me when people say this because I am that age and it is definitely NOT the time of my life
Kayden Gonzalez
35 here. At first it was something that I felt "wouldn't happen to me" and ignored the problem.
Then I was hit by a full on quarter-life crisis as I realised I had missed out on everything I should have experienced and that they were no longer a possibility and that life could only get worse.
Jace Martinez
I'm 24 and still feel 11, I just want to get back from school, eat, rush my homework, play with the kids in the neighborhood, play some videa and hit the hay. That was the time I was truly happy. I haven't been happy since, not in high school, not in university at the moment and I don't think work will help at all, at least the internships I did didn't. I just don't care about the world, the news, the politics etc. I have the same friends I had back then and they are just as fed up with everything as I am but at least I don't complain, while all some of them do is complain about trivial shit that bothers them. It doesn't help never having been in a relationship, because it gives me hope that I might be able to be happy but it just keeps bringing me down and making me sadder not being in one. Funny thing is, I somehow know deep inside that a relationship will just fuck me up even more, giving me more troubles and worries than I already have, that's probably why I avoid them. I often wish I could turn back time and fix some choices I made and get together with some people I had to get together with, but if I could really do it i'd probably just go back to being a child just to experience true happiness one last time even if it means making the same mistakes I made leading me to where I am.
Its the past, why dwell on it. Enjoy yourself, enjoy your life, focus on what interest you now.
Xavier Ross
YOU'RE STILL YOUNG.
BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE WHILE YOU STILL CAN!
I'M SERIOUS DON'T BE AFRAID YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT AND PEOPLE WILL ONLY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU WERE TRUE WITH YOU WANTED TO BE.
DO THE SHIT, HAVE FUN, BE YOU.
Adam Howard
>wouldn't happen to me
I always felt this way, in my mind it was SO FAR AWAY it was inconceivable that I'd actually grow up and now it happened and feels like it was too soon. It's not even that I don't want to grow up, it's that I wish I grew up differently, I can't enter adulthood from this angle, it feels like i'm landing a plane but the runway is too short because I started landing it too late
Just give me like 10 more years God, I swear I'll be ready then
Dominic Hernandez
You're right, and this has been slowly getting worse since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Men used to have wives, families, and a clear path in life by 18.
Isaiah Scott
>i'm a boring dum gay butt bahaa_hahhuerhueruheruhurhnghgnhh
bro, i'm like you but i managed to get one substantial step above you. was your dad a pussy and your mom an obsessive freak? important question!
Michael Thompson
>a clear path in life by 18. only those who worked factory jobs in university its pretty much the same as today
Charles Young
It's because you're young. I'm 30 something and they all look like kids.
William Bennett
My dad is a pussy yeah, but it's more like both my mom and dad don't give a shit about anything I do. My mom is great in that she does everything to provide for us materially(me and my siblings) but she was never really a parent to us, I don't really have much of a relationship with my parents they were always just sorta "there"
Ayden Cooper
I'm young at 20 but I feel like I lost something once I exited my teens. Youth is all I have, and knowing I will only become uglier is depressing, especially since I've never enjoyed the trappings of youth at all. It's just a chance fading away, untouched.
Juan Thomas
Yeah but don't tell me they don't look more mature than modern kids of the same age
Lucas Wood
They don't, they just happen to be dressed like your parents were so you think they look older than they are. If they were dressed like zoomers you'd think they were younger.
Luis Martin
wife, kid(s) and the means to grow old with them was the go to system for a solid few centuries
You might be right actually, you can tell they are still acting like kids they just look older to me
Lucas Martinez
You start don't care about age as long you keep doing what you love.
James Anderson
I remember in middle school how I though high schoolers looked sooo mature.. and how I though we were so mature in highschool. Looking back at the pictures 15 years later we really were kids. I'll probably say the same about myself now in a similar amount of time.
Jace Allen
I'm 28. I never thought of myself as somebody who was getting older until this year. A guy I worked with who just turned 20 asked me if I "still played games" because I "looked older". There are times where I wish I could be 19 again. Play video games, smoke weed and listen to metal. Not in some need to worship my youth or relive that experience. But in the sense that I was somewhat comfortable with that identity. Adulthood has been a confusing state of being so far. I don't know what I'm supposed to do to feel fulfilled and secure. I just wish I spent my time better. I wish I didn't waste time worrying about women (one woman to be precise). I wish I didn't waste my time on drinking and shithead friends. But in hindsight those were things that needed to happen to put me in the mental space I'm in today. One where therapy and changing some systems in my life is looking more hopeful by the day. I'm watching my hairline on the slow march to the back of my head and my bank account isn't where it should be. But that's okay. I'm working on my shit in my own time. My adolescence wasn't the sum of my life. There were alot of dark times and fun memories but both need to be kept there. I don't want my soul to be trapped there. I'm ready for the next chapter to unfold.
