What does Growing up mean to me? · 8:57pm Mar 4th, 2017
On Youtube, some time ago somebody told me THIS...
"Growing OLD is Mandatory... Growing UP is Optional"
...that person was right. Growing up is a choice.
To me, from what I've seen, and how other people behave (Usually a bad way) and how they treat and chastise other people for doing things they view as childish... Growing up too much would be nothing-less... than a big mistake!
Growing up means, losing things, sacrificing, giving up things you love and will never have again to be replaced with things you don't like and don't want, and like I just said, people chastise you when you do things they view as childish or immature.
To them it's like... when you grow up, and you leave things behind, that's just it. You get rid of them... forever... they're gone... don't touch them, don't speak of them, don't even think of them ever again.
-Your favorite TV shows
-Places you liked to go
-Foods you liked to eat
-Games you liked to play
-Favorite toys you once had
-Activities you PREFERRED to be doing... ect, ect...
And what do people expect you to be like...?
-Have a job and bust yourself day and night until your too bushed to keep your eyes open.
-Be grumpy and miserable, and hostile to people when you get home.
-Have very little to do left when the work is done because you can't pick up those things you left behind.
Well, that's what growing up means to me, and HEY... Teen Titans Things Change... put into WORDS and VISUALS of my points.
Things do Change, but not all change is good for everyone... especially if it costs them the things they love, and is replaced with either nothing, or things you find useless to you, serve you no function or worthwhile function, and leave you with less than you what you had before.
Well, that's what it means to me... Growing up (Having a job, moving forward, letting go of the past) All that is to me is sacrificing things you love and the person you are, all to become someone you don't want to be, and lose the things that make you happy...
...you lost far more than you gained.
Fictionally speaking...
"You've taken something from me that I can never get back. something I can never even replace. Something that meant more to me than YOU ever will!
If that's what it means to grow up (Which it seems so, and it's how I'd play it anyway)... No Thanks!
And adapting and accepting is pretty much out of the question too... cuz once you grow up/move on and toss those things out of your life... THEY STAY out of your life... period!
Someone to me: "The only way you'll find happiness is to accept that the way things are... is the Way Things Are!
Me to Someone: "the Ways things are... STINKS, and I'm not putting up with it"
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and experience (Everyone around me seems to become irritable when they grow up. They try to get into a fight with you just when you say "hi"
4443718 Oh really?
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That's what it says up there, and if that's what growing means I have to become... "No thanks"
4443737 I see
It seems that you and I have grown up viewing the world as polar opposites. That's why I agree that it's just your opinion. Because your point of view doesn't apply to the entire world.
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Glad to see SOME people understand it (Instead of deliberately misreading)
Growing up is different for everyone
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Too bad there are lot of morons who want everyone to grow up the way THEY grew up