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#1
Jun 30, 2005, 05:05 PM
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It's a strange question to be asked from a teenager, But I wonder what you personally find hard being an adult? Please don't say life meaning everything. Say something that actually feels different in a way to you!
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Jun 30, 2005, 05:26 PM
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That even though I have more knowledge and wisdom (sometimes debatable) I have less time to use it!
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Jun 30, 2005, 05:36 PM
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Well, I love my kids, and wouldn't trade my experiences as a mom for the world, but I'd say the toughest thing for me has been being responsible for someone else. Making decisions that could affect the life of someone else. I agonize about whether or not I've made the right decisions.
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Jun 30, 2005, 05:39 PM
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That even tho i feel like a teenager still there are less and less people wanting to help with things the older i get(bills etc.)
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#5
Jun 30, 2005, 05:59 PM
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To know that I can not go back in time and right my wrongs. Knowing that my actions and my decisions if not carefully thought out could effect my children. Wishing that I would have made better decisions and taken advantage of my opportunities in a more positive way. This is kind of a sad question for me actually.
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Jun 30, 2005, 06:28 PM
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That you are expected to take care of yourself, even if u can't.
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Jun 30, 2005, 06:30 PM
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Hi folks,
I like being an adult, but sometimes I look at children and see that they are right there in the 'now' seeing everything new and exciting and I feel like I've lost something precious, and it will never come back. Some writer's have called it the loss of the 'golden age'. But really, I like the way things are now, and I wouldn't go back. Cheers, M |
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#8
Jun 30, 2005, 06:35 PM
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What I missed out on AND took for granted as a child/teen.
kd
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#9
Jun 30, 2005, 06:47 PM
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Thank you for your totally honesty and that the feeling is maybe more maturty still it's not how old you are but how old you feel inside. Love can kind of make you feel like that sometimes...
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Jun 30, 2005, 08:53 PM
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I SO relate to the first four answers!
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Jun 30, 2005, 09:08 PM
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I'd have to say making sacrifices. I've learned that as an adult I've learned that all the things I dreamed of as a child I'll never have. I can have some of them. And I have to chose what's most important to me. I'm not just talking about material things either. I'm talking career, family, etc.
Ry
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#12
Jun 30, 2005, 09:14 PM
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The hardest part about being an adult is knowing I can't go back in time and fix my mistakes, especially the ones in which I accidentally hurt someone else.
Jan
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#13
Jun 30, 2005, 09:15 PM
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That I was deprived of the experiences that mark the transition of growing up. I was forced to remain a child until I broke free, and then I couldn't be a child anymore, and never can again.
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#14
Jun 30, 2005, 09:36 PM
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The hardest thing for me is knowing that my "age of innocence" was taken away from me.......I don't remember anything good about growing up -- and now I'm growing old & I still have my past following me, hiding around the corner to jump on me & pummel me into little pieces; even though I am a totally changed person.....it wants to ruin the little I have. "Having a past" that follows you; when your innocence was stolen away is QUITE the drag
 Peace....DAYZEE
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Jun 30, 2005, 10:16 PM
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
dayzee9 said: The hardest thing for me is knowing that my "age of innocence" was taken away from me.......I don't remember anything good about growing up -- and now I'm growing old & I still have my past following me, hiding around the corner to jump on me & pummel me into little pieces; even though I am a totally changed person.....it wants to ruin the little I have. "Having a past" that follows you; when your innocence was stolen away is QUITE the drag Peace....DAYZEE </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> Oh how I can relate to this. I am sorry dayzee 
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#16
Jun 30, 2005, 10:33 PM
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I'm 18, so I'm technically an adult. You learn a lot more about responsibility...yeah, that sounds trite, but whatever. I'm starting to appreciate things around me, and I'm trying not to take things for granted. More wisdom.
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Jul 01, 2005, 01:43 AM
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I relate to those who feel they've lost their chance for a childhood, though I'm thankful to be out of the one I had. The kind of maturity I have is strange; I've always had more mature tastes and behaviors than my peers, but it feels like now that we're adults, the gap shouldn't be so apparent. It's a lonely place to be.
But I wouldn't go back and give up my rights as an adult for anything. My choices are my own, and I believe I'm mature enough to make them. Though at the moment I'm kinda limited without transportation and work/income. But at least I can make the choice to take meds, get Medicaid, see a therapist, and go to the hospital if I'm suicidal. I didn't have those options when my parents made the choices. Good thing our relationship's better now, because without them letting me live at home I'd be homeless on welfare at this point.
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Jul 01, 2005, 01:48 AM
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I never had a childhood but my regret at/of being a grown up is learning that grownups like me do not have the power I thought I would to protect my loved ones from pain and harm. I though I would have power to make life everything I missed as a child. I was wrong and my family suffers and all I can do is be there for them with a loving heart.
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Jul 01, 2005, 02:58 AM
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For me, the hard part is coming to terms with the fact that ultimately, I face the world alone. Yes there will be people who lift and support me along the way. But I've learned that I walk my own path and nobody will be there for every step, but me.
Coming home to an empty house or a house full of roommates (strangers) instead of a parent who works to make life safe and comfortable for me- someone who will hold me when I cry and put up with me when I want to be juvenile, and read me bedtime stories, and quiet my fears in the night when I've had a nightmare. Someone who will set my boundaries FOR me, to make sure I"m always safe. Those are hard decisions to make!! Someone to go to work and pay the bills and worry about all that, while I focus on learning about this brand new world around me. Those are the things that are hard to let go of. Some of them, I've never really had.
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#20
Jul 01, 2005, 11:39 AM
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This is perhaps odd, ironic or indicative of my own immaturity, but not flippant or evasive, but perhaps the most difficult aspect of adulthood is wondering what it would feel like to be a grown up. I haven't a clue. I see the ever increasing expanse of forehead, the graying hair, the lines upon my face, and the same kid I ever was staring back at me in my reflection.
Like, part of me was this old when I was a kid, and part of me now is still a kid when I'm this old. But I think I like it that way. sqrl.
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Jul 01, 2005, 11:51 AM
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What I find, maybe not difficult, but certainly irritating is that because I've chosen to remain child-free, other adults look at me like I'm still a kid, that I can't possibly understand the concepts of self-sacrifice or pride, that my experience taking care of my self &/or my husband are miniscule beside their monumental achievement of spawning offspring... Some even consider me as being selfish in some way because I haven't dedicated my life to breeding. I hear a lot of, "Oh, well, you couldn't possibly understand because you don't have kids".
Like many here, I really didn't have a childhood - I had to raise myself. My parents at least instilled me with independence & life skills before leaving me to my own ends... But now that I am a 'grown-up' I think what I actually dislike the most is the tedium. Work, pay bills, sleep, work, pay bills, sleep. Nothing seems new or fresh, and when I have the time to explore I don't have the money, and when I have the money, I don't have the time. It gets tiresome.
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Jul 02, 2005, 06:29 PM
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#23
Jul 03, 2005, 01:36 AM
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realizing i've dismissed all my ideals and faith i had as a young adult
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#24
Jul 03, 2005, 02:22 AM
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Feeling like you have to be responsible for everyone and your brother including yourself!Not knowing what your future holds, feeling hopeless in that . shall I go on? Sorry , just a bit out of it again tonight. Hubby is making me very grumpy!
Hugz~ Beth
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