Isn't Being A Grown-Up Great?

[TheeGoatPig]

Tell me how great your life has gotten since you grew older than you used to be when your life wasn't so good because you were younger (assuming your life has gotten better with age, if it hasn't than go away, no, just kidding , just tell us how life has gotten worse I suppse, and if you feel it will get better or not with the age that is to come).

 

[cantdog]

My daughter is going to buy a house. She hit the bank to see what sort of mortgage they'd be willing to give her. You do that, actually; it's part of the process. Her e-mail to me had the subject line This being a grownup is kinda paying off

And it read:
So I have this letter thingy in my hand. Apparently, the guy not only said, "sure, we would probably give this chick money" but also said 6.375% rate and 95% loan to value. Pretty freakin' cool!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Tell me how great your life has gotten since you grew older than you used to be when your life wasn't so good because you were younger (assuming your life has gotten better with age, if it hasn't than go away, no, just kidding , just tell us how life has gotten worse I suppse, and if you feel it will get better or not with the age that is to come).

Let's see now, you want me to:

Tell you how great my life has gotten since I grew older than I used to be when my life wasn't so good because I was younger

I'm guessing this is at least a semi-appropritate answer: Since turning 21, my age has had nothing to do with my quality of life, great or otherwise.

You also asked: ...if I feel it (my life) will get better or not with the age that is to come.

Easy asnwer: It will get better or not with the age that is to come. Otherwise, wouldn't I be dead?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[glynndah]

Finally, I can stay up as late as I want, with no one telling me it's time for bed. No, wait, my husband still does that.

 

[rgraham666]

I wouldn't go back to being a kid or teenager for all the money in the world.

 

[Dar~]

In school I was ostracised and unpopular b/c I was poor. I didn't have the "right" clothes or the "right" things. I was mocked, beat up, and pretty much excluded. As an adult, I have found my place in the universe and I am finally at peace with who I am. I make my own choices, live my own dreams, wear what I like and what I think is "me" and I couldn't give a fuck what people have to say about it. I also have decided that I am seriously fun, smart, and hot, so who the fuck cares if someone else doesn't find me likable. I do.

 

[jomar]

What Rumple said...

But more specifically...so far I have enjoyed every stage of my life. Interests and socializing wax and wane, money's an issue then it's not, I've been ready for the increasing responsibility as it comes, I've enjoyed my kids at all their stages and ages (so far), I've weathered some serious accidents and operations but overall consider myself very fortunate. I'm healthy, I'm an optimist, I believe things will work out but I work to make it happen. I do make some "sacrifices" because I want some things more than others. All in all, I got to say, I've had it pretty good and hopefully my good fortune will continue as I age.

I'm curious about your reason for asking, though.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

In school I was ostracised and unpopular b/c I was poor. I didn't have the "right" clothes or the "right" things. I was mocked, beat up, and pretty much excluded. As an adult, I have found my place in the universe and I am finally at peace with who I am. I make my own choices, live my own dreams, wear what I like and what I think is "me" and I couldn't give a fuck what people have to say about it. I also have decided that I am seriously fun, smart, and hot, so who the fuck cares if someone else doesn't find me likable. I do.

That's pretty much my story as well (though not because I was poor, I was just didn't know how to be social). It got to the point that when I was younger, I was afraid to leave the house (alone, I was fine ina group, or ina car) in fear of being beaten up or mugged.

But once I got out of school and got my own car, the world started opening up more and more for me. I found friends, got a woman (for a short little while at least), got a couple of jobs, had a lot of fun, and even htough I dread the next day of work as much as the next guy, life has been so much easier sicne I got out of school.

I missed being a teen in some of the worst ways, but I think that I am finally making up for it in some ways. I wouldn't want to go back tot he way things were. They sucked. Things aren't so bad anymore.

 

[cloudy]

I guess I'm the exception that makes the rule, but I had a blast as a teenager.

 

[WRJames]

I grew up in Delaware in the fifties and early sixties. I remember taking a personality test as an entering freshman in college -- they kept asking if I was satisified with my sex life, and all I could think was -- what's a sex life? Going from that to Columbia in the late sixties was like stepping through a time warp. The other part of "growing up" at that stage, aside from discovering love and all that goes with it, was experiencing so many things for the first time. It's in our late teens and early twenties that we really begin to realize what a banquet has been set out for us.

The difficult part of being that age is that, at least for me, was not knowing what I could personally accomplish. So as I got older, found a wife, a career, raised children, all that was very satisfying. I've been lucky enough to have been creative, lucky enough to have obtained power at times. But, I have to say, being retired is pretty nice. So far I have not slowed down phsycially, and I have time to do some writing. I hope to have a few good years left before the inevitable decline sets in.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

You know, I had a great time as a teenager and into my early twenties, but I would never want to feel the way I felt about myself then. For some people, finding self-esteem is a very long journey.

I spent a lot of time in my teens, basing my self-opinion on the way other people treated me or the things they said. There's so much freedom in just loving yourself as a work in progress. These days, I'm less of many of the things I used to be, but more in the sense that I can accept myself as-is. And, hey, guess what? When you love yourself, others will follow.

 

[R. Richard]

I wouldn't go back to being a kid or teenager for all the money in the world.

If there is such an offer seriously on the table, please let me know!

 

[starrkers]

I was a lonely child, an outcast teen and a nerd uni student. It's taken me 25 years of adulthood to realise I don't have to be the person others want, I can be who I want.
I'm still learning who that is.
So for me, being a grown up is finally becoming good.

 

[elsol]

Sex.

Next question.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Sex.

Next question.

Ditto. In my teens, I was still neurotic and conflicted about it, but I still had a hell of a time. Now I have the great time without the conflict

Other than that, I have to say that I'm glad I'm a lot smarter now. My parents didn't teach me responsibility or self-discipline (well, they probably tried) so I've had to learn it on my own. I've learned to enjoy working hard and excelling. In doing that, I've gotten to feel a satisfaction I never knew back then - the satisfaction of earning what I have, and not just having it handed to me.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

As a kid I was picked on and then fought back. As a teenager I depended on no one and learned to have a life and a pretty good one it turned out to be. In my 20's I learned to love and trust. In my 30's I've had to learn about myself.

Does being an adult suck...yeah when your paying bills and worrying about other people. But the ride is so worth it and I really wouldnt want to redo being a kid again. Though I do wish this journey to find myself came with a down comforter and a roaring fireplace

 

[Vermilion]

As a kid I was picked on and then fought back. As a teenager I depended on no one and learned to have a life and a pretty good one it turned out to be. In my 20's I learned to love and trust. In my 30's I've had to learn about myself.

Does being an adult suck...yeah when your paying bills and worrying about other people. But the ride is so worth it and I really wouldnt want to redo being a kid again. Though I do wish this journey to find myself came with a down comforter and a roaring fireplace

Or at least a decent service station and greasy spoon caff....
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[Liar]

From High School and onwards, things have been pretty much the same. Growing up was not the thing that changed stuff, but a change of environment did. Junior high sucked, but after that I changed school and schoolmates and the old muck from before didn't follow me there. Can't say Much happened after that though, in terms of personal growth. It's a continuous assembling of collected experiences.


Oh, and Vermillion,... your AV and the tagline "I am Fred" is messing with my head.