Sometimes I feel Grown Up, and sometimes I feel like a Child in an adult body

[Rainbow Mage]

You ever have this? Where sometimes you don't really feel like you've grown up at all. Like you're just the same child you always was, inside an adult body?

 

[MSizer]

Welcome to adulthood. Although I do find myself feeling more often like an adult as I become more comfortable in my ethical opinions by developping them through regular reading and contemplation. Career sucess and all other things I can think of might make me look like an adult, but they don't contribute to my feeling that way.

 

[I.S.L.A.M617]

We are the same children we always have been, you just can't act like it in public after a certain age lol.

 

[*Anne*]

No.

.

 

[Twilight Hue]

You ever have this? Where sometimes you don't really feel like you've grown up at all. Like you're just the same child you always was, inside an adult body?

I like to have fun as a child does, but realises that there are times and places for that. An adult would have an awfully hard time interacting with other adults if he consistently acted childish for the better part of it, don't you think?
-NM-

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Oh yes NM, that's what's sad about it. We have to supress our true natures when we're adults

 

[I.S.L.A.M617]

I like to have fun as a child does, but realises that there are times and places for that. An adult would have an awfully hard time interacting with other adults if he consistently acted childish for the better part of it, don't you think?
-NM-

I'm just barely out of childhood (I'm 20 years old), and this might be the reason why, but I don't see much difference in the way children and adults act. I see the same backstabbing and rumors I saw in middle school that I do when I go to work and see people trying to get ahead. Another thing adults hang onto is their childish curiosity; we will always have the need to learn something new.

 

[I.S.L.A.M617]

Oh yes NM, that's what's sad about it. We have to supress our true natures when we're adults

Lol you have some serious avatar issues my friend... I thought the Twilight one was bad

 

[Peacewise]

You ever have this? Where sometimes you don't really feel like you've grown up at all. Like you're just the same child you always was, inside an adult body?

indeed, my heart can still be young, but my mind and body is not.
I can still play and be silly, but now I just restrain myself a touch and more readily pay the price in pain for that play.
There was a time when 2 hours of intense squash was achievable and didn't hurt. Now, an hour of intense squash leaves me spent and hurting for three days.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

What is this "grown up" you speak of? I feel knowledgeable, but I don't really know what it's like to "be an adult." And from what I have seen, I don't want to be one.

 

[Thesavorofpan]

Yeah, sometimes I don't want to be adult.

 

[ChristineES]

You ever have this? Where sometimes you don't really feel like you've grown up at all. Like you're just the same child you always was, inside an adult body?

Sure. I think most of us do, those who don't are those uptight, sour folks who have no sense of humor.

 

[*Anne*]

Sure. I think most of us do, those who don't are those uptight, sour folks who have no sense of humor.

Hey!

 

[Random]

You ever have this?

Yeah.

Where sometimes you don't really feel like you've grown up at all. Like you're just the same child you always was, inside an adult body?

Yeah.

 

[Self]

You ever have this? Where sometimes you don't really feel like you've grown up at all. Like you're just the same child you always was, inside an adult body?

Im too young to feel this. But I do feel that each day I get older I feel a little less innocent. Like the world is creeping up on me and programming me and filling me up wiht junk. That might be why I dislike school, I dont like structure, or anything like that. I just want to be free of this world. My parent also worry about me, partly because Im dropping out of high school, yeah thats a perfect example of how much i dont like school.

 

[Random]

When you get to my age, mid-thirties, any mistakes you might make become ever more difficult to cope with on a personal level, you start to feel like a chastised child if you're to blame. You can be reduced to tears like a babe by confusion alone. Innocence is lost with youth, no doubt; you no longer have the assurance that "someone else will sort it out, y'know? It's not my responsibility". Welcome to the real world, kid.

Adulthood is a negation of everything you were led to believe it was when you were young, but now you can't do anything about it; it's too late.

I know a proud man who lived his whole life trying not to make the mistakes his father did, and he ended up miserable, empty and lost. He never understood what it meant to be himself, every challenge was a crisis of confidence and conscience, and so despite his great potential, he came to nothing. Sad story, true though; he never embraced his inner child, and so, he never truly had the opportunity to become a man.

It's all about love, in the end; the child in every man wants love. That's all, really. Love.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Awwww, Conor.

To the OP, not anymore. I feel very much like an adult, and prefer it. It's feeling independent, capable, and very very comfortable in my own skin.

I mean, I can laugh with the kids, and have an unbridled curiosity, but I think that's just a trait of being alive. Being a woman is incomparable to being a girl. It's wisdom and power, and that can't be beat.

 

[*Anne*]

To the OP, not anymore. I feel very much like an adult, and prefer it. It's feeling independent, capable, and very very comfortable in my own skin.

I mean, I can laugh with the kids, and have an unbridled curiosity, but I think that's just a trait of being alive. Being a woman is incomparable to being a girl. It's wisdom and power, and that can't be beat.

:yes:

I'm enjoying adulthood.

 

[Walkntune]

Pushing 40 but i am still a playful puppy and kid at heart.Everyday is a new adventure!