Do you miss your childhood? - General

I miss all the people I used to be friends with back in middle school. I actually used to hang out with them on the week days. Now, all of my time is spent on homework or projects or studying.

I'd like to completely forget my childhood really. Father has an affair with my mother, lies, they divorce when I was only four years old. I never get to see my mom because she had to work two jobs in order for her to take care of my sister and I. Time goes on, we get another guy living with us, officially making the next 11 years the "Age of Terror" for us, but because I was a guy I got it worse (Can't hit a girl but you sure as shit can hit a guy). I was beaten, accused of every problem that went on in the house and with his life, it was shit. I was absolutely terrified of going home. I had to beg and plead other friends if I could go to their house so I can avoid being yelled at or hit. This of course continues on for 11 years. In that time I had to watch my Dad degrade into this miserly emotional wreck of a human being. My Mom wasn't faring any better. My sister during this time was the only friend who was there and could help me. We had to help each other, but, it was almost completely a wasted effort. Time passes, he gets meaner but we find out he had MS (multiple sclerosis) which explained why he was an asshole so much. He starts using medicine which makes him even more aggressive, it gets worse. By this time I'm now getting to be 15. The final year of the terror. A friend of mine came over and we were just hanging out, having fun until they both come home. Of course fighting as they walk into the house, screaming, yelling, it's terrible. They were in another argument about who's doing work and whatnot and that's when he grabbed our check book and threw it into the dogs water bowl. My Mom screams at him "You fucking cocksucker!" He grabs her by the arm and twists it behind her back, and by this time I'm already running down the hall. I punched him and he punched back, hard. We fought for about ten minutes and if my friend had not been there, we would have been fucked royally. We stop and glare at each other for what seemed like ages as my friend called the police for us. They of course showed up and took him away. That day was the end of the terror I had to live with for years, and that being why I never want to remember my childhood again. In the following weeks he comes back to live with us, but, this time he does something different for his MS, and to this day he's been great ever since. He hasn't yelled, he hasn't argued with my mom, I mean fuck, he's now the father of my little half brother (Yes, he got my mom pregnant and now they have a baby. He was born two weeks ago from today) It's nice to be able to go home without fear. [I]That[/I] was my childhood. As for friends and everything else though, they were, and still are, great.

[QUOTE=MovingSalad;25560326]No, but they certainly aren't kids anymore. Why do you need to argue such a statement.[/QUOTE] That's debatable. [QUOTE=MovingSalad;25560326] Relative to the life you've lived thus far, is what I mean... look the fuck outside the box.[/QUOTE] No shit sherlock? You've always lived most of your life relative to the life you've lived thus far. In fact, you've lived 100% of it. Why don't you start with looking inside the box and mastering that before looking outside of it. I take it they don't teach math or logic in journalism school?

It is not as much as I miss it as I realize the spine crushingly enormous amount of opportunities and chances that I have missed even with some of the problems that were going on back then. But overall I do miss some particular parts of it, oddly enough some aspects of my existence have gone nearly unchanged since then, while others have transformed themselves in a dramatic enough enough manner to become unrecognizable. It is unfortunate to note that the experiences which caused me to transform my mindset from childhood to an adult one (or a teenager one) were ultimately painful and unpleasant, and have nearly destroyed me in the process through depression, virtual nonexistence of motivation, and various other harmful psychological effects. Sometimes when I am lying in bed before falling asleep, those unpleasant memories and realizations flash through my mind, causing me to sense significant amounts of regret and disappointment. I eternally thank the fact that I managed to stumble upon a certain anti-depressant which actually counters those psychological effects, allowing me to actually function more or less normally and work on various areas of my interest (and various mandatory areas) without me having to internally fight myself every time.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Medievil_cover.jpg[/img] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/CrashBandicootLogo.png[/img] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Twisted_Metal_III.jpg[/img] Oh and [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Outlaw_Atari_2600_screenshot1a.png[/img]

I miss being a toddler, because I was fucking pro back then. The music teacher said don't blow on the recorder and I did, then she cased me around the room. The art teacher was having a birthday, I threw glitter on her and LOL'd. I barely got told off for all the stuff I did as a toddler. Pretty chill man

It's weird. Most kids spend their childhood saying i can't wait to be older. Now that i am older, i want to be a child again. Crazy stuff.

I don't miss my childhood! I'm twelve. :smith:

Not really, but I do hate time goes fucking with the speed of light now. When I was a child things took ages, now its gone when you blink your eyes :(

I have a car, i have moneys, i'm in my last year of school, i can buy shitloads of alcohol and shit legally. Why would i miss my childhood.

My childhood was shit, sure you don't have responsibility but you have rules and then you always have the people that are going to start shit for no reason whereas when you're an adult people don't tend to be as stupid as when they were a child.

Cartoons were the best in the 90's, Pokémon, Thomas the Tank Engine, Funnybones. Good times.

Nah.... As epic as my childhood was, MLIB!

I miss my old Super Nintendo. Thats about all i miss from my childhood. I dont remember anything else.

I hate my childhood. Bad times, I'm sad to say.

[QUOTE=Can't Get Right;25563960][img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Medievil_cover.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/CrashBandicootLogo.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Twisted_Metal_III.jpg[/img_thumb] Oh and [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Outlaw_Atari_2600_screenshot1a.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] That sounds fucking awesome. PS1 was the shit back in the day

[QUOTE=Mr.Hoff;25560735]That's debatable. [/QUOTE] I don't give a fuck if it is debatable. 15 year olds are considerably more mature, those are the years that people undergo massive changes through puberty (on average) I'm not putting up every single little stitch of what I'm saying as a fucking arguement. The point is that this particular 15 year old feels he isn't a child anymore, and I completely empathise with him because I felt the same way at his age.. [quote=Mr.Hoff]No shit sherlock? You've always lived most of your life relative to the life you've lived thus far. In fact, you've lived 100% of it. Why don't you start with looking inside the box and mastering that before looking outside of it.[/quote] But the percentage of life that a day takes up will become significantly smaller as you age. That is why everyone in this thread goes "Its fucking bullshit that time goes by faster as you age." This is what I am trying to display to you. No I do not have a fucking math degree, and I don't really need to draw up a fucking 'permutation diagram' to prove that time goes by faster as you age. So can you kindly fuck off. [quote=Mr.Hoff]I take it they don't teach math or logic in journalism school? [/quote] Taking a psychology course, yes, they teach Logic in a philosophical sort of sense. Its just a few books on it though, really. I don't need advanced functions or calculus to tell you that you're a nitpicking twat on an internet forum demanding I make it 100% clear to him what it is that I am saying. Fuck do I ever love the Crash Bandicoot series, I'm really glad I have all the classics on my PS3 now, including Medievil. I could go on and list dozens of PS1 games that took up the majority of my childhood.

I don't really miss it. Yeah the 90's were awesome but for me, being a kid kinda sucked. If I could go back in time, I would just go to the beginning of my senior year of high school and avoid all the mistakes I made.

I kinda miss it, but I still like adulthood. There is much more freedom than as a child.

I liked all the old shows and shit, I think the current shows today are bullshit and need to be taken off for the old retro stuff.

[QUOTE=kartarn;25567036]I liked all the old shows and shit, I think the current shows today are bullshit and need to be taken off for the old retro stuff.[/QUOTE] Yeah. Have you seen some of the new kid's shows? THey're hideous. A lot of the older shows have an appeal for older audiences, stuff that I never even noticed when I was a kid.

No. My family was poor,we couldn't afford anything,i got bullied every day. Childhood fucking sucked.

[QUOTE=MovingSalad;25567087]Yeah. Have you seen some of the new kid's shows? THey're hideous. A lot of the older shows have an appeal for older audiences, stuff that I never even noticed when I was a kid.[/QUOTE] Oh they're fucking terrible. I don't know how any kid in the future can look back and say "I grew up with x", I can say confidently i grew up with Art attack, Johnson and friends, The Wiggles and Magic Mountain (Half of these you won't get since every but art attack is Australian) [editline]22nd October 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=SilverDragon619;25567100]No. My family was poor,we couldn't afford anything,i got bullied every day. Childhood fucking sucked.[/QUOTE] Ouch, same here. Our TV was on bricks and we got a windows 98 computer in 1999. Shit was good. [editline]22nd October 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=blacksam;25557764]"Follow me, follow me I'm the leader And when I park cars I don't pay for the meter I remember I was younger as a kid it was the best I used touch on all the pretty girls at recess I'm at my peak yes, I won't leave yet Serial style, cereal aisle need chex." Chiddy Bang "Opposite of Adults" I agree with Mr Chiddy Bang, this life is a party better live it up.[/QUOTE] Good song as well.

[QUOTE=MovingSalad;25567087]Yeah. Have you seen some of the new kid's shows? THey're hideous. A lot of the older shows have an appeal for older audiences, stuff that I never even noticed when I was a kid.[/QUOTE] Isn't it great watching all the shows you used to watch as a kid and noticing all of the sexual content they sneak in?

Best part was that you only had to worry about playing and if you were back home in time for your dinner.

I kinda miss it =:(

Yea im 15 also and i also miss my childhood, i used to remember the days when i used to come back from school and play my on my ps2.

There are certain aspects of my childhood that I miss, but they're things that I could never have appreciated as a child, generally just the lack of responsibility.

Not at all. Now I only have to move out of this shithole of a town and forget everything that had happened before.

What I recently noticed was that when I was in high school I was like 'Man, I wish I was back in primary school'. Now that I'm in college studying, I find myself going 'Man, I wish I was back in high school'.