I spend quite a bit of my downtime looking at a meme site called 9gag that is pretty fantastic for a laugh and it actually keeps you pretty informed on current affairs as well. The comments section is where you are going to get more truthful information about what is going on in the world than you are going to get from any news outlet so that is a nice by-product. The main reason I look at it is to laugh or to get inspired though and people will frequently post things that technically are not memes but still make you think a bit and this one that I read the other day hit close to home about how I feel about myself as well as almost everyone that I know.
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this isn't the meme that reminded me of myself, it's the next one
This topic isn't something I really thought about in my life a great deal until after I turned 40, which was a few years ago now. As a child I always thought that adults lived this grand, serious life and they only let loose to be fun and a bit silly whenever children were around. I think a lot of us grow up thinking the same thing as well because if you had a good upbringing, your parents were serious and strict towards you to a certain degree but also upheld an air of adulty-ness whenever they were in public.
I am now older than my parents ever were at any point that I lived in the same house as them and I am almost NEVER serious and stoic about anything so when I read this post that probably comes from reddit on 9gag, it hit close to home.
I think that especially if you don't have children, and I don't, that being serious and being "adult" is something that just doesn't really work for me. All of the people that I know, even the ones that do have kids, rarely seem to act how I envisioned adults would behave when I was a child myself. I don't think I would be able to maintain a relationship with a person that was serious all the time and I tend to surround myself with people that are childish or at least as childish as I am.
I'm thinking that maybe my impression of adults when I was a child and even as a legal adult myself when I was just starting out my career might have been really terribly wrong. I think that this seriousness is just a facade that people put on in their professional lives but as soon as they are just around the boys, so to speak, that they let loose as well.
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Now don't get the wrong idea here. I am not a useless man in his 40's, I can get things done when I have to. I just feel like the level of dedication that my own parents put into being adults is heaps and bounds above the amount of responsibility that I ever face in my life. I tend to look at almost every appointment, even the ones that are mandatory or will benefit me are just a pain in the ass. My most treasured moments of every week come from our weekly bowling outings where we all go and get drunk afterwards.
I think that "roguebelle" in the Tolkien conversation above kind of hit the nail on the head as far as most of my life has been concerned. I agree with Toys 'R Us when I say "I don't wanna grow up." I haven't done so yet and it has worked out for me. I just kind of wonder if all of you out there are the same and live most of their lives in a comical way. Sometimes I look at my life and general lack of dedication that I have to almost anything and wonder how it is that I managed to be successful? I think it must be that most people, even those in charge of hiring other people, are not so serious all the time as well.
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I know a lot of people over the ages of 40, 50, 60 who are chilled and funny and not serious.
We all have time to work. But in between people are funny and silly.
You don't have to grow up in order to grow up. As a matter of fact, we stop growing up and started to grow old. I still am the super mischievous dude. Sometimes i think life is way too short to be too serious. In my dictionary, i don't normally do serious thing, but we did things seriously.
There are very few things that I am serious about and this probably holds me back in certain aspects of my life but I'm ok with that.
I remember when I was in high school as a freshman, I thought that the seniors at the time were basically grown adults. They just seemed so much older and more mature. Then when I got to be a senor, I didn't feel any different at all. It's kind of the same being in my mid 40's. I still feel like the most immature person in a room even if I am the oldest one in there. It's a bizarre feeling.
yeah same. I suppose the only time that I start to feel my age is if I am in a situation where I am hanging out with people in their 20's. I actually do have some wisdom in this head of mine and every now and then I "show my age" but referring to things that they have no idea what it is or I can't really relate to anything that they are into.
Yes, that happens to me all the time. Even with people my age! :)
As I have often said: all adults still feel like kids and they are doing their best to try to copy and act like the adults they remember from when they were kids. And.. it's been the same all the way back.
When we are young we think of adults as old and wise and so on. But those adults felt exactly the same as we do now, like kids trapped in an aging body, not really understanding how it happened. We'll reach 99 (one hopes) and still feel the same way, like our 14 year old selves when we close our eyes.
and I suppose there really isn't anything at all wrong with that. If i had kids I might behave more like an adult but I don't, so I will just continue to behave like a kid until the end of my days.
I think there s a big difference in ow adults are today compared to my generation and how they think. My generation lived a different life and why they are not exactly PC and have a joke and a laugh on aby topic and it may be seen as childish by some, but as you ay being serious all the time is not exactly living.
I am so happy that PC culture isn't a part of my life over here. I have to walk on eggshells whenever I am in the USA to avoid insulting any of the thousands of marginalized groups that exist now.
Not apart of my life either and never will be. I read somewhere there are 72 classified genders which is nuts.