Do you miss being a kid at all?

[Anonymous]

I would definitely want some things to be different about it, but It feels like being an adult is so far away, And your job is just to play and learn basically. I mean of course you don’t have the same level of freedom, but still….

yes

no

[NamerOfStars]

Your job as a kid isn't to play and learn; it's to go to school, to grind yourself to dust having pointlessly advanced algebra shoved into your head, then to come home and do MORE algebra, frying your brain with homework, to show that you retained it after leaving class. By contrast, when you leave work, you're DONE for the day. Being an adult is SO much better- you have access to booze and sex and fireworks.

The museums of Chicago (of which there are quite a few) often had Mold-a-Rama plastic injection molding machines, which you'd put two dollars into and get to watch (they had windows) make you a little plastic dinosaur or gorilla or Sears tower or Apollo capsule, depending on where you were. Mom almost always told me no when I asked for one, but as an adult, I made a point of hitting up every museum free day I could to try and complete my collection; when I left the bank one day with fifty bucks in singles, I laughed, realizing the cashier would NEVER believe me if I'd said I wasn't heading to strip club, unless I could get a t-rex out of it. Try doing that as a kid!

That said, there ARE things I miss from those days, but they're mostly social things; I could run over to a friend's house (drive there, even) and ask if they wanted to come out and play, but they'd think it very odd, and probably wouldn't (few have much free time, anyway, what with kids); calling together some for a slumber party would probably be taken sexually. Few of us could run enough for a NERF war, and fewer of the kids are old enough to pose a real challenge.

[chilldude33]

I miss when everybody had free time and would just hang out.

Also I miss being into video games and fictional universes like star wars and marvel.

[Account]

A lot.

[Asker]

what about it? and I can't message you hmmm

[Account]

Βecause I do not want strangers messaging me due to the fact that I have noticed how it goes.

[Asker]

what do you mean?