Why was I happier as a child?

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As a child, I had a very rich inner world, a lot of ideas and thoughts, rich imagination. For example, when I was driving with my family in the car, I imagined monsters from my favorite game fighting with each other outside the car window.

I am almost 25 years old now. I am much more "grounded" in reality. Things that seemed "magical" to me as a child now seem boring... For example, I find Halloween boring now. I also really loved playing PC games for example - now I get bored of every PC game after a day/week. The same with music, for example: in my childhood, music was able to evoke strong emotions and beautiful imagination in me. Today, most pieces of music have no effect on me. (However, I listen to music almost all the time because silence is soooo boring to me.) A lot of things that I used to find fun when I was a kid (like exploring new places in nature) now I find very boring.

Even conversation with people became just "meh".

I also feel that my current adult personality is much more complicated than my childhood personality. I also feel like I understand myself much less than when I was a child. - Sometimes I'm downright shocked that I'm experiencing this emotion in this situation / that I'm behaving this way in this situation / that I'm thinking this way.

It also seems to me that I had much more stable emotions as a child than now as an adult. In childhood, everything was simple and spontaneous. (Just wake up, go to school and play video games for rest of the day.) Today I have to think hard about why I have a problem with this and that (or why I feel so sad etc), and how to solve it.

Does anyone have a similar experience?

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