i was going to write an essay, but idk if even I would read it, so im gonna take a nap instead

  • koshka@koshka.ynh.fr
    2·
    16 hours ago

    I’ve seen a lot of posts by people saying that the way you feel doesn’t change after high school. The way I feel in a very abstract way like the conscious experience that I have has changed even in the past couple of years. I feel like I’ve been able to have more abstract thoughts in recent years.

  • Artisian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    For the record, many playgrounds don’t let you on after you get bigger.

    I feel my playground access has declined somewhat. Paying for a gym membership kinda helps.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 days ago

    Idk, I feel pretty different, haha. From a biopsychosocial perspective, children are definitely not “small adults”. Will we all have some love for whimsy and at times have emotional tantrums and fight against responsibility? Sure, but when I was a kid I never ever saw excesses in these areas as shortcomings, but as an adult I definitely do…

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    3 days ago

    We all started playing a massive game of pretend, where we all pretend to be the adults we saw when we were kids. You cant stop playing, theres bills to pay.

    • loldog191@lemmy.caOP
      4·
      3 days ago

      not knowing where things come from is innocence. the burden of knowledge is the responsibility to create what’s gone, and to share that burden.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    We never stop being kids.

    And we never fully become adults, in a sense. For there’s always room to grow, people & situations to understand, things and perspectives to learn about, and further maturity to be reached.

    • loldog191@lemmy.caOP
      13·
      3 days ago

      i think kids should be allowed to vote. from the moment we’re born, we should have a say. we have adults that act like crybabies anyways, so it balances out.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        We already have an enormous problem of completely unqualified voters being able to vote, so let’s not make it even worse. (in the States, anyway)

        • loldog191@lemmy.caOP
          1·
          15 hours ago

          ive given this A LOT of dwell time and thought, and i think we’re both partially right and wrong.

          even when the negatives outweigh the positives, some things are worth doing. every solution is just accounting for as many of the things that can go wrong as we can imagine. but even when things go wrong, we can always fix it. your democracy has gone wrong, and it isn’t enough to just point out the things going wrong. you have to fix it too.

          • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            14 hours ago

            There’s also practical application and real-world effect to consider. Giving kids the vote wouldn’t help the situation, and in fact wouldn’t happen anyway, even if the last remaining legit party was in charge, here.

            Now in theory, if you wanted to set up some kind of voting application test to see how well the potential voter was familiar with real facts & reality, allowing them to vote if they passed, then that might indeed be an argument for lowering the voting age. In fact, it almost would have saved democracy in the 2016 election, as I alluded to above.

  • stelelor@lemmy.ca
    3·
    3 days ago

    Today is my birthday and this is very much how I feel about growing older. It’s not at all what I thought it would be.

    • loldog191@lemmy.caOP
      1·
      16 hours ago

      i wanna steal elon musk’s toys. i’d go to the moon and build a time machine a safe distance from everyone. it won’t be mine tho, i’ll let everyone play with it.

      edit: sober afterthought, idk why i said “i’ll let” if it isn’t mine. and a problem is access; everyone isn’t on the moon. so even if i’m the one that liberates what’s been imprisoned, i still need to let it go; the giving is what is mine, and the gift is freedom.

  • loldog191@lemmy.caOP
    4·
    3 days ago

    sometimes, does my silly-ness come off as insanity? what if everyone’s just acting childish and silly all the time? i think i need to grow up and be productive… that’s the punchline 🤭👏👏👏 ok but fr