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Childhood felt like a small paradise where every day was an adventure and everything seemed simple and full of joy. My teenage years were much darker for me, filled with heavy depression and destructive thoughts, but even then I still had many amazing experiences. Everything was new, intense, and exciting, and I still LOVED video games with the same passion.
As an adult, life feels very different. It becomes mostly about maintenance. You spend so much energy just trying to survive, paying bills, going to school or going to work. It feels like the world slowly shifts from discovery to responsibility.
I honestly do not understand how some people stay satisfied with life after the teenage years. The intense waves of hormones are gone, the emotions are less explosive, and the dreams we once had start to fade. Back then, just walking past a girl could make our imagination explode with hope, fantasies, and possibilities. As adults, reality settles in, those romantic dreams fade away, and the goals we once had slowly disappear. I miss hope. Hope was a beautiful feeling, even if it was naive. Ignorance really was a kind of bliss, because it allowed us to believe that anything could happen.
Maybe I have something like a Peter Pan syndrome, refusing to grow up. I miss my childhood. Back then, fun, adventure, and excitement just happened naturally. Happiness required almost no effort. Now everything feels heavier, slower, and harder to reach.
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Nigga just have hobbies and find a way to cheat the system. Can't be too hard for an unc
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I only had a real childhood between 3-6.
Then my parents split up and I was raised in my mentally ill mother's house in poverty and literally had to become the responsible one because my mother was so insane and incompetent.
I'm 32 now and feel like 60 years old
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>>84370584
I had the exact same experience
Childhood was the only time I actually enjoyed things. I even looked forward to the future because I thought there were so many possibilities. I wish I could go back and change things instead of falling into escapism.
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>>84370584
please dont lost that inner child who wants fun and adventure
hold on to the hope that youll feel that way again someday
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>>84370584
>Maybe I have something like a Peter Pan syndrome, refusing to grow up.
This is a perfectly normal reaction to growing up and realising the world you were born into no longer exists and your future was sold down the river to hedge funds and venture capital, and by the time you were old enough to understand this its too late to do anything about it.
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>>84370584
>MUH BIDEO JAMES
stopped reading. you faggots are so boring with your loser, no talent, no real hobbies having lifestyle. why bother getting good at something cool and awesome irl, when you can just simulate doing awesome things in a bideo jame instead and pretend it's real? what a bunch of fucking losers and not in the muh social expectations kind of way, but in the you have no real skills or hobbies kind of way
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My childhood ended at 12. My mom decided it was time to stop buying me clothes and I would always have to wait in between years to get clothes, the bitch would literally never buy me clothes, ever.
Anyway yeah she turned into a drunk after my grand mother passed away.
The lack of new clothes and hair style gave me really bad self esteem and confidence issues. I also had dental issues that she gave up on. Very shitty parent, one of those "at least there is a roof over your head" types after you complain about them being passed out on the toilet.
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This guy gets it. Hobbies are a big thing. When you are an adult, being happy requires work as OP said aswell, but that work becomes less of a work and more of an enjoynment when you have a hobby you truly like. I was also lucky enough to cheat the system but I believe anyone can do that. Nothing in adult life sparks excitement other than love. So go love some more