Don't trust anyone over 30 or, the screw adulthood thread

Amake · 10-05-2012, 04:53 AM

Today I had candy for breakfast and played videogames for two hours, read some fantasy and spent about thirty minutes imagining what my life would have been like if I had had a twin sister. Being a grown-up is great as long as you don't have to act grown-up.

What did you do today that as a child you totally didn't think you would still be allowed to do? What are the joys of childhood to you? Which of them are still open to you, and what do you miss? What do you wish you had done that is now too late? Important questions, according to that other thread I just read. Questions that demand our ongoing consideration and participation. Hopefully. Unless I'm thinking about this all wrong.

Me, I miss being able to walk up to a complete stranger and ask if they'd like to play tag/build a sandcastle/be friends/watch a movie/anything. I might be crazy, but I don't think it should be so hard to talk to people on the street. What's up with that?

walkertexasdruid · 10-05-2012, 08:51 AM

When I was a kid I would run all over the neighborhood and not have any concern for my safety. I do not know if that is feaseble for today's children. I also wish I had not been as shy, because among a group that I was comfortable with I was pretty dynamic, but I had and still have trouble reaching out to new people. I wish I had been more active and played some organized sports, instead of playing video games and reading my books most of the time. I wish that I had a tighter reign on my temper, because I would at times blow up at the slightest provocation. Connected to that I wish I had been able to take criticism much better than I did. I would probably be a happier person if any of these quirks in my personality had been a little modified.

akaSM · 10-05-2012, 10:32 AM

When I was a kid, I wouldn't have to worry about studying for exams. I haven't studied for a single exam this semester and...I've been getting higher grades compared to those exams I DID study for...

Not studying for exams (college exams even!) doesn't seem like a good idea but, those grades say otherwise

I miss going to random people's houses, maybe a friend's, a neighbor's or just someone I know, I can still do that but, only if my crazy ever changing schedule allows me to do so. The last time I went to a friend's house was over a year ago >_>

Actually...now that I think about it...I have no idea if I act like an adult or not....

A Zarkin' Frood · 10-05-2012, 01:15 PM

i spent the day at work and monday i will get up to work my job to earn the money to pay my bills to pay for food to pay for all the things I don't need to pay for being alive and the day after I will wake up to a life worth ending and yet i wont because someone will have to pay for my funeral.

Haha no, life's all right and I'm a child 4 lyfe. Bought the new Muse album today and listening to it right now, later I'll play some video games.

mauve · 10-05-2012, 01:28 PM

THEN:
When I was a kid, my sister and I made our Barbies secret agents or superheroes or ninja girlscouts (Buy their cookies or be destroyed!!).

We played with Fisher-Price pirates (we had a whole fleet--three or four ships of varying size and a skull-shaped island) that would regularly go to battle with the knights living in the Fisher-Price castle (we discovered you could launch the pirates and knights out of the cannons just as well as the plastic cannonballs) and occasionally be terrorized by the vicious Sea Kitties (all of our plushie cats).

We had a tree house and a tree swing in the back yard that would variably become a fortress for knights or a Tarzan house for our Barbies.

Our mom cut a refrigerator-sized cardboard box in half and made us each a "pirate ship" out of the halves (just fold the top flaps into a V-shaped bow and draw a pirate flag on the back) and we would go to war with each other on the driveway, hurling water balloons at each other in an epic sea battle. We liked pirates before it was cool for girls to like pirates.

We had American Girl dolls-- I had Felicity and my sister had Addy-- that we would make clothes for and scour second-hand stores for things like doll-sized tea sets and furniture and plastic horses they could ride.

When we were a little older, 13-ish or so, the Fisher Price castle became the Castle of Gondor, our PlayMobile figurines became Lord of the Rings characters, and a small ornamental planter shaped like a little gazebo became Rohan. Denethor was always trying to set things on fire. Boromir and Eowyn were secretly plotting to take over the world together. Frodo would blindly run at danger if you told him not to, blaming the Ring. Sam basically just said "NO MISTER FRODO IT'S A TRAP" constantly.

We also had herds of My Little Ponies and Grand Champions that we played with quite often, although the plots from those games of make-believe aren't nearly as memorable.

NOW:
Nowadays I basically just play video games and knit.

...I'd say my childhood was much more fun than adulthood, except for the fact that I was tormented constantly as a kid. I much prefer being an adult, not having to be in middle school or high school anymore. Cuz fuck that shit, man.

Plus now I don't have to be in bed by 9pm so I can get up and go to school.

PyrosNine · 10-05-2012, 01:53 PM

I used to remember HATING naps, because there was so much I wanted to do each day, play with my giant pile of action figures, enjoy the benefits of having a spacious room to myself, and play with friends from down the street of the cul de sac.

It seems that as the years have gone on I've been stuffed in progressively smaller, more constrictive spaces until I have so little space to actually play with anything but what I can play with sitting in the same spot, and all my "toy" actions are now done entirely in my head as I walk from A to B during the course of my day.

I end up with time, but no time for anything really worthwhile or enjoyable, and thus boredom, and it quickly becomes more pleasant to nap until the worthwhile things happen.

I clearly need to dust off my old box of toys. I mean, i still keep my personal stuffed bears on my bookshelf, so they can taunt me and make judgement when I'm playing games like Bayonetta. It's okay, they can only see, like, half of what I'm doing because my dog seems to hate stuffed animals with left eyes.

When I was little, I'd always play with the more monstrous, uglier toys as being friendly and heroic, defenders of the soft, cuter plushies. I don't know if there was something psychological about it, or if that my selection of toys was pretty poor and I just got used to making do.

Heck, my favored toy for a while was 'Diny", an infantile robotic T-rex that could turn into android more commonly known on the TV and toyline as "Megatron" circa Beast Wars. When I finally realized that the sweet and adorable Diny and the evil bad man from Beast Wars were the same person, I had a funny aneurysm moment.

**Revising Ocelot** · 10-05-2012, 02:19 PM

I never thought I would take mid-day sleeps. My father, after work being a boring old accountant, would always crash out on the sofa in front of the TV and snore away. No, I vowed to myself. I would never sink to such debauchery.

...and I never did. I go to bed for my afternoon kips. Hah!

I also thought that at age 24 I wouldn't be stuck at home playing the computah games, but looking after a mother with MND put paid to moving out from about 2009 to last December. And unemployment. Sweet, terrible unemployment.

RobinStarwing · 10-05-2012, 02:34 PM

I miss being able to stay up all night. I hate being 31. >_>

Now, I got health issues from eating garbage and all sorts of lovely things. Getting old sucks! Youth is wasted on all of you!

PyrosNine · 10-05-2012, 02:35 PM

Clearly, with so much unemployment going on, we need to all start a business or something. Like an NPF store. Buncha people with free time, internet access, net savvy, and in need of money.

We would either sell typical Think Geek style fare, or alternative power solutions.

RobinStarwing · 10-05-2012, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PyrosNine

Clearly, with so much unemployment going on, we need to all start a business or something. Like an NPF store. Buncha people with free time, internet access, net savvy, and in need of money.

We would either sell typical Think Geek style fare, or alternative power solutions.

Hell! I would be on board with this!

10-05-2012, 04:53 AM	#1
Amake Keeper of the new Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: A place without judgment Posts: 4,506	Don't trust anyone over 30 or, the screw adulthood thread Today I had candy for breakfast and played videogames for two hours, read some fantasy and spent about thirty minutes imagining what my life would have been like if I had had a twin sister. Being a grown-up is great as long as you don't have to act grown-up. What did you do today that as a child you totally didn't think you would still be allowed to do? What are the joys of childhood to you? Which of them are still open to you, and what do you miss? What do you wish you had done that is now too late? Important questions, according to that other thread I just read. Questions that demand our ongoing consideration and participation. Hopefully. Unless I'm thinking about this all wrong. Me, I miss being able to walk up to a complete stranger and ask if they'd like to play tag/build a sandcastle/be friends/watch a movie/anything. I might be crazy, but I don't think it should be so hard to talk to people on the street. What's up with that? __________________ Hope insistent, trust implicit, love inherent, life immersed

10-05-2012, 08:51 AM	#2
walkertexasdruid I am the One Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Infinate Layers of the Abyss Posts: 533	When I was a kid I would run all over the neighborhood and not have any concern for my safety. I do not know if that is feaseble for today's children. I also wish I had not been as shy, because among a group that I was comfortable with I was pretty dynamic, but I had and still have trouble reaching out to new people. I wish I had been more active and played some organized sports, instead of playing video games and reading my books most of the time. I wish that I had a tighter reign on my temper, because I would at times blow up at the slightest provocation. Connected to that I wish I had been able to take criticism much better than I did. I would probably be a happier person if any of these quirks in my personality had been a little modified. __________________ Naive Optimist

10-05-2012, 01:15 PM	#4
A Zarkin' Frood formerly known as Prince. Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Right here, with you >:) Posts: 2,396	i spent the day at work and monday i will get up to work my job to earn the money to pay my bills to pay for food to pay for all the things I don't need to pay for being alive and the day after I will wake up to a life worth ending and yet i wont because someone will have to pay for my funeral. Haha no, life's all right and I'm a child 4 lyfe. Bought the new Muse album today and listening to it right now, later I'll play some video games. __________________ >:( C-:

10-05-2012, 01:28 PM	#5
mauve So Dreamy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Someplace magical Posts: 6,863	THEN: When I was a kid, my sister and I made our Barbies secret agents or superheroes or ninja girlscouts (Buy their cookies or be destroyed!!). We played with Fisher-Price pirates (we had a whole fleet--three or four ships of varying size and a skull-shaped island) that would regularly go to battle with the knights living in the Fisher-Price castle (we discovered you could launch the pirates and knights out of the cannons just as well as the plastic cannonballs) and occasionally be terrorized by the vicious Sea Kitties (all of our plushie cats). We had a tree house and a tree swing in the back yard that would variably become a fortress for knights or a Tarzan house for our Barbies. Our mom cut a refrigerator-sized cardboard box in half and made us each a "pirate ship" out of the halves (just fold the top flaps into a V-shaped bow and draw a pirate flag on the back) and we would go to war with each other on the driveway, hurling water balloons at each other in an epic sea battle. We liked pirates before it was cool for girls to like pirates. We had American Girl dolls-- I had Felicity and my sister had Addy-- that we would make clothes for and scour second-hand stores for things like doll-sized tea sets and furniture and plastic horses they could ride. When we were a little older, 13-ish or so, the Fisher Price castle became the Castle of Gondor, our PlayMobile figurines became Lord of the Rings characters, and a small ornamental planter shaped like a little gazebo became Rohan. Denethor was always trying to set things on fire. Boromir and Eowyn were secretly plotting to take over the world together. Frodo would blindly run at danger if you told him not to, blaming the Ring. Sam basically just said "NO MISTER FRODO IT'S A TRAP" constantly. We also had herds of My Little Ponies and Grand Champions that we played with quite often, although the plots from those games of make-believe aren't nearly as memorable. NOW: Nowadays I basically just play video games and knit. ...I'd say my childhood was much more fun than adulthood, except for the fact that I was tormented constantly as a kid. I much prefer being an adult, not having to be in middle school or high school anymore. Cuz fuck that shit, man. Plus now I don't have to be in bed by 9pm so I can get up and go to school. __________________ Yoo Hoo! Last edited by mauve; 10-05-2012 at 01:32 PM.

10-05-2012, 01:53 PM	#6
PyrosNine Zettai Hero Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: A figment of my own imagination Posts: 6,103	I used to remember HATING naps, because there was so much I wanted to do each day, play with my giant pile of action figures, enjoy the benefits of having a spacious room to myself, and play with friends from down the street of the cul de sac. It seems that as the years have gone on I've been stuffed in progressively smaller, more constrictive spaces until I have so little space to actually play with anything but what I can play with sitting in the same spot, and all my "toy" actions are now done entirely in my head as I walk from A to B during the course of my day. I end up with time, but no time for anything really worthwhile or enjoyable, and thus boredom, and it quickly becomes more pleasant to nap until the worthwhile things happen. I clearly need to dust off my old box of toys. I mean, i still keep my personal stuffed bears on my bookshelf, so they can taunt me and make judgement when I'm playing games like Bayonetta. It's okay, they can only see, like, half of what I'm doing because my dog seems to hate stuffed animals with left eyes. When I was little, I'd always play with the more monstrous, uglier toys as being friendly and heroic, defenders of the soft, cuter plushies. I don't know if there was something psychological about it, or if that my selection of toys was pretty poor and I just got used to making do. Heck, my favored toy for a while was 'Diny", an infantile robotic T-rex that could turn into android more commonly known on the TV and toyline as "Megatron" circa Beast Wars. When I finally realized that the sweet and adorable Diny and the evil bad man from Beast Wars were the same person, I had a funny aneurysm moment. __________________ Pyrosnine.blogspot.com: An experimental blog of writing. Updated possibly daily. Possibly. A fair chance. Current Works for reading: War Between them, Karma Police. PyrosNine: Weirdo Magnet Extraordinaire!

10-05-2012, 02:19 PM	#7
Revising Ocelot Douchebag Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Probably somewhere in England. Posts: 1,897	I never thought I would take mid-day sleeps. My father, after work being a boring old accountant, would always crash out on the sofa in front of the TV and snore away. No, I vowed to myself. I would never sink to such debauchery. ...and I never did. I go to bed for my afternoon kips. Hah! I also thought that at age 24 I wouldn't be stuck at home playing the computah games, but looking after a mother with MND put paid to moving out from about 2009 to last December. And unemployment. Sweet, terrible unemployment. __________________ magic sucks

10-05-2012, 02:34 PM	#8
RobinStarwing C.M.B.A.S.O.B Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Everywhere until you look at me. Posts: 737	I miss being able to stay up all night. I hate being 31. >_> Now, I got health issues from eating garbage and all sorts of lovely things. Getting old sucks! Youth is wasted on all of you! __________________ *NPF's resident Crazy Magnificent Bastard Ass Son Of A Bitch (CMBASOB)* Accept No Substitutes Also known as "The Least Interesting Man in The World" according to multiple surveys

10-05-2012, 02:35 PM	#9
PyrosNine Zettai Hero Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: A figment of my own imagination Posts: 6,103	Clearly, with so much unemployment going on, we need to all start a business or something. Like an NPF store. Buncha people with free time, internet access, net savvy, and in need of money. We would either sell typical Think Geek style fare, or alternative power solutions. __________________ Pyrosnine.blogspot.com: An experimental blog of writing. Updated possibly daily. Possibly. A fair chance. Current Works for reading: War Between them, Karma Police. PyrosNine: Weirdo Magnet Extraordinaire!