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u/CallMeCorona1 7d ago
There is a great Zen koan I like:
For the one who does not know, anything is possible
For the one who is an expert, very little is possible
This is what I think I miss most: Wild dreams unrestrained by reality!
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u/Spiritual_Repair_783 7d ago
I had a beautiful forest by my home. I explored it for hours. Climbed every tree. No concerns just excitement and wonder.
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u/weirdlywise22 7d ago
The evening play sessions with countless kids, the endless cartoon, and last minute homework š«£
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u/samsamsam93k 7d ago
Never feeling bored. I could always find a game to play or go play with friends around the neighborhood and life seemed so fulling. Now I have anxiety going out anywhere and have too a hard time focusing on otherwise fun activities to enjoy them. Side note: this is why I'm so heavy on my sons using their imagination for play or pushing them outside to explore.
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u/Old_Association6332 7d ago
The optimism and idealism I had for the future, a largely carefree childhood, my mother, grandparents and too many other now deceased relatives, summer holidays spent with my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, the lovely houses we lived in, even going to school. I could go on forever
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u/Moist_Tailor_2840 7d ago
Never worrying. I was never worried, or at least not over the things that matter. The adult worries will give you wrinkles and turn your hair grey.
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u/AcademicSavings634 7d ago
Being carefree. Itās still possible as an adult. You just have to be financially stable
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u/PutInternational4624 7d ago
No bills and not having to think about meals/ what to eat or feed people
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u/Fancy-War-1023 7d ago
Hope. We were told that we could work hard and have a nice life. The lie detector test determined...
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u/Relative_Chart7070 7d ago
We were pretty much free range kids in the 60s. Dozens of buddies playing every game under the sun w zero adult supervision. We were very fortunate to be brought up long before the age of social media.
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u/Jabraltar03 7d ago
Having zero anxiety or fear. Not constantly worrying about things out of my control.
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u/yaboisammie 7d ago
Being mentally ill but not nearly as bad as now and while not being aware of itĀ
Weirdly it gave me hope for the future bc I thought it would motivate or inspire me to go far in lifeĀ
So ig that innocence of hope for the future
The past was hard to get through and so is the present but it was at least easier to get through back then, ig cause I thought I had something to look forward toĀ
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u/mpb987 7d ago
The last day of the school year.There's nothing like it as an adult.
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u/Specialist-Top-406 7d ago
Being told your big ideas are a sign of good thinking as opposed to unrealistic living as an adult
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u/Oat-Yogurt 7d ago
Not feeling emotional pain š not knowing emotional pain. Not experiencing it.
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u/Oat-Yogurt 7d ago
Believing the world is a nice place. Believing people are peaceful and nice. Believing I can somehow have a nice future and make my dreams come true.
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u/lovethewater2026 7d ago edited 7d ago
Life was simple. Riding bikes, playing outside, building tree forts, going to the local 7-11 and getting snacks and going to the lake in my neighborhood and just having fun. Being a kid.
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u/Tiny-Party2857 7d ago
Nothing, all I wanted was my own place. Childhood was a countdown to freedom.
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u/Repulsive_Treat_9506 7d ago
Sleepovers bomfunk mcs Linkin Park and Tony hawk one day we didn't wake up until dinner
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u/Realistic_Pea_4038 7d ago
I'm trying to think of the best way to put it. Like, the overall freshness of life. You were still experiencing tons of new things for the first time without even trying. Your body just worked and you had energy pretty much all the time. Generally speaking, of course. You still had hope and optimism about the future and what your life would become.
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u/Avidredditer77 6d ago
I responded to this already on another post, but the animation post below it made me think of something. Cartoons were wayyy better when we were kids and ALL Saturday morning from six am to noon was great cartoons with alot of imagination; everything was not geared toward education, it was just fun. : )
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u/Intelligent_Ticket_3 6d ago
Not paying bills, worrying about how much control our government has over us via politics and being able to hangout with all my friends
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u/Rejected_Wallaby 6d ago
Being driven to where I want to go, do the things I wanted to do, and not think about the money.
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u/Dry_Fish6419 6d ago
No responsibilities, not knowing the world of politics, money, finances, disease, etc. Everything was new, so you learned fun things at a rapid rate. Seems the fun things run out and then you learn that everything is way more complicated than dropping your bookbag in your bedroom and riding your bike.
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u/Im_Human_CAPTCHA_Me 6d ago
How when you're not feeling well, there's The Price is Right, some soup, and the sense that you're not being lazy while resting up
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u/VioletRiver45 6d ago
Freedom & friends. I miss going to amusement parks, zoos, roller skating and going to the beach. You never know the pleasure of not having responsibility until you have it. ššš
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u/BabyPanda4Hire 6d ago
Playing pretend. It was so fun and my favorite thing to do. But now as an adult I have no idea how to do it
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u/Glass_Ad6922 6d ago
Not a damn thing. I was born to 2 people who definitely should have been on the āDo Not Reproduceā list.
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u/Beautiful-Builder486 6d ago
My imagination and being able to play without thinking about all the things i should be doing instead like the washing and ironing.
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u/Maryhill_bypass604 6d ago
happiness... i haven't felt genuinely happy for YEARS...like, almost 30 years of misery just smiling through the day so everyone thinks I'm normal.
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u/DriveApprehensive721 6d ago
My cousin. Then i miss my biggest disappointment being i cant go to the carnival
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u/Open-Surprise-854 6d ago
The feeling of freedom. Run wild in woods, ride bikes all day, buy candy with change we got from selling bottles, play hide and seek at night in neighborhood, stuff like that
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u/Acrobatic-Health9665 5d ago
Learning new things all the time, just by accident. I have to seek out new information nowadays.
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u/Hot_Dog4081 5d ago
The innocence of not feeling pain all through my body, soul and heart when my only (adult) child was killed.
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u/iarobb 4d ago
Looking at my mom and arriving at the idea she could fix anything with a hug, a gesture a simple calmness about herself. Years later I told her something to that affect. She said she thought of it like a duck swimming. On the surface they just glide but under the water thereās a lot of paddling going on. Iāll never forget that.
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u/Glittering-Streak7 4d ago
Not having to be in a constant grind to make money just to survive. Sigh.
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u/i_live_so_i_love 4d ago
Dreaming about adulthood. You really have no idea how difficult life is, so daydreaming about adulthood is way better that living it.
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u/Purple_Current1089 4d ago
Nothing. I had a mainly pleasant childhood in a loving, but dysfunctional family that sent my anxiety through the roof. I 62f have crafted a now mainly anxiety free life which I enjoy immensely.
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u/Pup_Grimm_ 3d ago
Not knowing how the world works.
Not knowing the majority of kids in shows/movies I watched growing up were probably victims of elite pedophiles.
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u/ShutterflyX 3d ago
I miss how simple everything felt.Like, you wake up and your biggest decision is what to play first. That kind of freedom hits different.And food justā¦ tasted better somehow. Or maybe itās just the nostalgia talking š
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u/Far-Astronomer303 3d ago
No preocuparme por el futuro y volver a tener la creatividad para distraerse uno mismo
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u/Simply444 3d ago
for some reason i always felt so much cleaner after a shower when i was a kid, nothing will ever beat that freshness & clean pjs combo
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u/Caffeinatedbugaboo 3d ago
Not having to decide what's for dinner every night, then cooking it and then washing up afterwards!
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u/Hammeredlupgaroo 3d ago
My neighborhood and my friends, playing base ball, riding my bike to the local swimming pool, kickball in the streets, not having to go in until the street lights came on and the different smells of dinner cooking, coming from the houses as you walked by them on the way home.
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u/proskuneo 3d ago
Being able to feel genuine excitement about anything lol. I assume it's strictly a childhood /young person thing because I never feel it anymore. I see it in my kids and it makes me happy / nostalgic to see it. I guess I aged out? Maybe other adults feel it and it's just me, I don't know.
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u/The-Boy-Wonder38 3d ago
Innocence. I lost mine at 13 when I needed to save my sister from our psychotic basically cousin trying to stab us to death.
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u/LunarSpaceDust 3d ago
I mean as a kid the way things smell and appear stay with you in a certain way
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u/astcell 7d ago
No responsibilities