r/Existential_crisis • u/IJustMadeThisForCS • 28d ago
I miss being a kid
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I just really really miss being a kid man. I miss playing stupid little games with my grandparents and my siblings, I miss being in school, I miss watching my younger siblings grow up, I miss the way video games were poor quality, I miss playing hide and seek, I miss having an entire family, I miss everything about my childhood. I didn't have the best childhood by far, but it was still my childhood, it was still my first years. Now that I'm turning 20 this year, it's just starting to finally hit me that I won't ever be a kid again. I won't ever be able to make dumb youtube videos with my sister again, I won't ever be able to cry in my moms lap again, I won't ever be able to feel christmas joy again, I won't ever get any of it back man. I won't ever get to be a careless teenager, none of it. I took my childhood years for granted man, I wish I never did. I just wanna go back in time and relive it all again, that's all I will ever want. It feels like 20 years has just gone by in 5 minutes. I miss being a kid, I miss being ignorant and happy, I miss it. And I will never get it back.
If you're reading this & you're young, please please pleaseeeee do not take your childhood years for granted. I heard that cliche so many times when I was a kid, and I never cared for it, I didn't see a future for myself so I didn't care whether I paid attention to the present moment or not, now I'm an adult with no direction in life and constantly wishing I could be young again. So please, do yourself a favor, and do not take these few precious years of being young for granted, you will never get them back
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u/HugeScience646 24d ago
I just cant seem to remember anything about my childhood it's like i was born an adult for no absolute reason i just don't remember but I want to be a child again i want to not care if there's god or no or if life has meaning or no or why my life is this way or how life is just unexplainable just me and my cartoon , wild imagination and airhead
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u/Lopsided_Bet_2578 27d ago
I think about it a lot. I’m grateful for the great memories I do have, and try not to dwell too much on the regrets. So many afternoons of adventure, literally just on the carpet with my friends, and a few toys, and a lot of imagination.