ITT: Ideals you had when you were younger that you have since discarded

[Biblo]

I would say:

-Christianity. I haven't lost my faith, but I've lost faith in the church itself.
-Smoking. When I was younger, I vowed to never smoke. Yeah, that vow's been broken. A lot.


Now you

[coalclock]

Yeah I was a big anti-smoker as a kid but that went out the window when I was 14/16

[Isison]

4chan: When i was young, I regard it as "fun". When I get older, I regard it as not only "fun" but also "useful"

[HeinekenClock]

Smoking

Yup I was actively against smoking when I was like 12 and now I'm down to a pack of tobacco each week, and if I get cigarettes and I huff a pack a day.

4chan: When i was young, I regard it as "fun". When I get older, I regard it as not only "fun" but also "useful"

Please leave 4chan at 4chan.

[DWARFINATORclock]

4chan: When i was young, I regard it as "fun". When I get older, I regard it as not only "fun" but also "useful"

I like how you mention 4chan in every post you make, and by like I mean Isison what the fuck.

[HeinekenClock]

4chan is the new fap.

[PolyhedronClock]

I've kept a handfull of ideals I had since my childhood, but looking at them now, they were much more unrealistic, compared to the version today that has a plan for them.

[Slurpee]

Not much, actually.

The older I grow and the more knowledge I gain, the more vindicated I feel about things I've always felt inherently.

If I had a meet-up with my 5, 10, and 15 year old selves, we'd probably spend the day high-fiving each other regarding dinosaurs.


I guess my 15 year old self would probably be upset that I still haven't written a book and hanged myself, but he was always kind of a black sheep.

[AMPEEEM]

drugs, religion, school.

Everything we are taught about those things are mostly bull shit, I've learned.

[Joey 57857]

My thoughts on life as young kid I regarded it as happy and everything is for me, now it is if i was gone nothig would change. A big one along with that is drugs.

[LuxenbergClock]

Surprisingly, not a lot, seeing as I was completely different when I was 10

I guess I don't feel like I have to be optimistic about everything

[Topcatyo]

Anti-social me back when I was 12-14: "People suck and popularity is a joke."
Me today: "People are cool and I'm somewhat popular in school."

Also now I'm really into nature n'shit and I wasn't back then.

[patriotclock]

smoking =/

[DigitalLemonClock]

I vowed to fight oppression but today I find myself in my third year of Dictator School

[Solenoidclock]

If I had a meet-up with my 5, 10, and 15 year old selves, we'd probably spend the day high-fiving each other regarding dinosaurs.

This. The only time I ever abandon something is when I find fault in it.

[Marlin Clock]

I still have kept a lot of my ideals.
"I can change the world" has taken quite a few blows over the years, but I've never given up the principle.

[Thor]

My ideals haven't changed that much, but I've learned to not talk too much about my more unpopular opinions.

Also, I used to think non sequiturs were the funniest shit ever

[Pin Clock]

I've abandoned the "it's the world that's the problem!!!" apsect years ago, and I'm very happy about it. Also, I stoped battlnig everything aggressivly and instead battled them in a mature manner. Other then that, I haven't really changed all that much, aside from your normal maturing.

Oh yeah, why back when when I wrote fan-fics (well, more like books staring kirby and friends, and I didn't even hear of the term "fan-fic" during most of when I was writing them. My username comes from them and i still write them, but barely ever at all.) I wanted to be an author, but ever since I discovered flash and CC, that's changed to animator.

[FluxCapacitorClock]

I've just gotten to the stage where I'm discovering that school isn't really a joke. The way teachers, guidance counselors, and general staff members go about it is. Schools could be a great thing if the people in them gave a shit about anything.

The only ideal I've given up on is religion. I've also discovered that it's foolish to follow suit with someone else when it comes to faith in anything at all. When I was younger I'd base everything off someone else. You should only side with someone if you truly believe in their thoughts on your own. Or if they're your girlfriend and you'd like to get some later that night.

[Roman Collar Clock]

It gets easier to separate fantasy from reality the older you get, especially when you actually experience things you have fantasies about, like the military for me.  We really do get smarter every day we get older...usually.

My belief in anti-racism took a 180.

But Christianity hasn't changed much for me.  I even got a tattoo about it. lol