Do you find it hard to recapture childhood happiness as a fully grown person?

[jennifer_bloom]

Like as a kid, McDonald’s, stickers, toys, bear hugs, autumn leaves, skating can bring happiness but as an adult, it seems people drink alcohol and smoke weed or sleep around cause they do not have adult alternatives to happiness like religious music or social philanthropy or humour or service to society or worship. I believe real religion can make adult living just as exciting as childhoods in Orlando Florida or Niagara Falls.

[nolabels]

As has been said, "You can never go home".

What can be done is to make one's own home, now, wherever one may be.

Being cognizant that some may wish to leave one's childhood behind, to be blown away as if it were dust in the wind, 'home' is always still with us.

For those of us who wish for it to be able to be revisited and find it to be achingly distant and unattainable at times, it's within us, but it also belongs in that time.

I'm reminded of the Twilight Zone episode, S1 Ep 5, 'Walking Distance'. Though I could find no direct link in which to view it directly at no cost, here is a reminder for those who can recall the episode, and also an opportunity for those who haven't seen it, but who may care to pursue and view it, to ponder and appreciate its meaning for us now at whatever stage of life we may find ourselves in.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734689/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

[DryGermanGuy]

I can relate to that. 😕

[Rocambole]

It's harder because you have already live if seem those things a thousands times by now, or know similar things and those experiences transfer over.

For instance you can expect what will happen in most movies, because you already watched a lot. You are already good at a new game, because you already played hundreds of games with similar mechanics, etc.

[Rocambole]

Lived and seem

[jennifer_bloom]

I guess that is true. I just think society should work harder to make adults happy instead of giving them drugs that numb their minds. It seems only dog and cat owners and married people with kids and people who go on vacations post about their happiness online.

[Rocambole]

Well another huge factor is that people have only like 2 hours per day of free time, when they are already exhausted after work, that most people don't even like doing in the first place.

[Kreneman]

Now as a grown man, there are a lot of things that I don't do anymore but at the same time are substitute some new things that capture my childhood memories of happiness like my favorite cartoon is Masters of the Universe 80s now I watch the new MOTU Revelation on Netflix, I use to go to go Blockbuster & Hollywood Videos now I watch Netflix, VUDU, Hulu, HBO Max and etc. I use to play Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis now I own PS5, I play Nintendo Switch, and Xbox. I still go to church and what's more importantly the Bible helps me to understand clearly what happiness really means which is following the Lord. Amen

[NuclearRedemption]

your brain on ZOGwashing propaganda believing christcuckery of rabbinistic strai

[Kreneman]

@NuclearRedemption I have no idea what you said or mean.

[art84]

Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

As a child you didn't have to worry about anything besides school. Parents bought you clothes, and have you what they could afford. There's certainly things from my childhood like videogames that I used to love as a kid not now don't have a huge reason to play now. Granted I have a PS4, Series S, Switch but can go months without playing them. You're only a child once and then you finally grow up and the things from your childhood seem like a distance memory.

[Jamie05rhs]

I don't mean to diminish your religious message. Because I do totally agree with you there.

But I also think that there is an economic factor. Children are carefree because they don't have the responsibility of taking care of themselves. That's their parents' job. When we grow up, we have that extra weight on our shoulders. However, people with extra disposable income will probably find it easier to experience the happiness that they had as a child.

[exitseven]

Most of the stuff I did for fun as a kid seem either stupid or dangerous. I would feel pretty stupid ending up in the hospital while jumping out o f a tree.

[NuclearRedemption]

Yeah tbh life after childhood unless you be chad or foid isn't worth living and is constant cope fest dedsrs

[Wise4myage]

Yes, but I still have flash backs.

[hammeronfire]

Yes. I also have clinical depression tho so

[Nominal]

There was No happyness in my childhood.