Kick me NOW!!!

India
October 30, 2009 7:05pm CST
Someone called me a kid recently. And that proved to be a turning point for my life on mylot. Since then, I just can't operate. Well, there is my friend starting a new discussion. I say to myself Aha! I will go and respond to her, that seems interesting!' Off I go and lo... it's something big! I feel like stupid, kid, and whatnot. In a nutshell, unworthy of replying. That has hit my hopes hard. I was dreaming of some money benefit here. Hmmm... My fellow mylot kids! come and help me! Give me some suggestions, for it has been going on for two days now If you are not a kid still feel free to reply.
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@May2k8 (18391)
• Indonesia
31 Oct 09
Whatever, if you are called as a kid I'm are still a kid even my age is referred to as adult. Just don't think of unworthy, anyway keep your hope we also need to talk and learn.
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• India
31 Oct 09
Thanks for replying. I could not make whether you are kid/adult but you surely have created a great profile page. Enjoyed it...
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• United States
31 Oct 09
How old ARE you? Maybe some of the old dears are jealous? ..lol Unless it is a very immature person posting something (sometimes you can tell if it is like a relationship thing or something like that, you know?) you really can't tell peoples ages on here anyway, and you certainly have as much right to post your opinion about anything as anyone else. This person, it seems needs to get over their own childish behavior of making someone else feel bad about being here. I hope you thoroughly ignore them and continue to enjoy your time mylotting!
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• India
31 Oct 09
Yeah, he was jealous for sure!LOL Fun aside, it was indeed my fault to comment in discussion I knew only a little about, though I had expressed it in my response. It was a bad experience, but now I'm enjoying again Thanks for the reply:)
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@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
9 Nov 09
Since when would someone be calling someone who is 20 a kid? So you may not have experienced as many things as some of us who are older, but you have your own experiences and thoughts, and for someone to consider talking to you in this way is not good. Personally I think we can all benefit from everyone here no matter what their age, so I encourage you to continue to come in here as you can and have Fun doing so as well. Wishing you the Best.
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• India
10 Apr 10
Thanks for the wishes. I hope I will be able to manage experiences and thoughts more wisely so people think twice...
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• India
28 Apr 10
hey you make me so much I can't even thank you properly!
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Apr 10
hi tina hora fugit sounds wiser than a lot of us older ones. lol lol.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
1 Nov 09
If that is you in your avatar then I would say you have a baby face that qualify you to be a kid in an adult body. So what if someone label you a kid. You should be happy with that label. when a young person is called a kid they will likely rebel as they want to feel that they are matured enough to be called a man who have the same thinking mind as the adult but when they reach middle age they try to make themselves look and feel young again. They refuse to accept that they have come to age. So what about being called as kid-adult. That might fits you well.
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• India
1 Nov 09
It's perfectly true :) When people reach certain age, they can't bear us kids and call us 'kids'. OK I respect it, I'm a kid to them as well as an adult. kidult? Thanks for this all See you soon...
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
2 Nov 09
don't do that, twenty is an adult, at twenty I was working and making my own way, hold your head up and yell, no I am not a kid, I am a young adult,hear I am an adult.
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@chookie1971 (2271)
• Australia
31 Oct 09
Try not to let it get you down. You have a good life a head of you. It is good that you have spoken up about this because it shows that you have support here by people. You know who you are that is the most important. It is sad that people have to tag others to bring them down. I am approaching my 40's and some one tagged me as immature and other nasty things that put me into depression for a year. I am still trying to over come my depression. It was by some one who I though would have known me better than that because they had known me for 4 and half years. Well I have news for them. It shows that they don't know me well enough. I am a better person. I don't need them bringing me down. This is helping me to rise above the depression without any medical assistance but I still have a long way to go. I am positive that I will get there. I am positive that you too can rise over current feelings. You have support so draw on that support to give you strength to carry on. Life is full of learning experiences. Even for me at my age, I am still learning. I am also still eager to learn as much as I possibly can about life.
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• India
31 Oct 09
I really appreciate the support I got here:) And no more worried about that 'tag'. Indeed they don't know you, calling you immature and all I am glad you fought with your depression and remain all optimistic. I must learn something from you! Wishing you all the best *-*
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• United States
31 Oct 09
Kid, I get called a kid all of the time. But it doesn't really bother me because... well I'm a kid. Hope I could help :)
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• India
31 Oct 09
I should better enjoy being a kid! Thanks for the help:) I just happened to check your profile...
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• Canada
31 Oct 09
I'm sorry you were made to feel "unworthy" :( but you're not. Age has nothing at all to do with one's "value," here at myLot or anywhere else. Sure, your answers may be different, in some cases, than someone who has more life experience than you but it doesn't mean that your experiences aren't interesting or useful. A good discussion flourishes with a variety of ideas, thoughts and opinions. If we all answered from exactly the same standpoint, it wouldn't be much fun and we wouldn't learn much either. If you want to participate somewhere, do so! Give the best answers you feel you can and ENJOY what you do. You are as entitled to share your opinion as anyone else
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• India
31 Oct 09
Thanks for cheering up :) I hope I will be able to create varied standpoints to just haunt these strange comment-providers :)
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@tjburcham (690)
• United States
31 Oct 09
I understand how you feel. Sometimes, I don't think people are really meaning to hurt, but they do. I have on several occasions been made to feel like I shouldn't be part of a conversation. Like because I don't use seven letter words that I am to stupid to keep up with the few that only wanted to be in on the converstation. I personally find those people at the very least boring. They will only talk with people that agree with them or also use seven letter words. So after a few times of my trying, I let them to themselves and wish them the best as they need it more than I. Then I find people that will talk with me, and have more to offer, other than dictionary conversations, and someone else's theories. I like real people with real life stories. That live in the real world. Don't let it get you down.
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• India
31 Oct 09
You put it amusingly: real people with real life stories. That live in the real world So , we must just bid goodbye to them? Seems good.. no gain in wasting their time~! I'll try to do that next time that person dares to touch me Thank you! :)
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@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
31 Oct 09
for a start post on light topics so that you will not feel unworthy or something. it is just a feeling that has no basis. anyways, i do respond on any topics that interest. cause i can't really respond that i don't like much cause it will make feel bored. i am not really much into posting a lot here each. i just want to learn some few things and just be active in good discussions so i can have some fun each day to take away my boredom at home. though earning is great but it is more important for me now to learn and just enjoy things here. i don't want to post on topics that kind of give some pressure on me like to make sure that i do make a perfect response. there is not perfect response. as long as you have something to say and share you have perfect response to a discussion. i am not a kid any more, i am glad i am part of this site. i like seeing my self getting old and active on this site cause at least i am getting learning something very important and helpful in life. you may ask what i want to learn from this site. i wanna perfect my english cause i have difficulty writing in english. i am still learning. i am not really good at it. there are still lots of things i need to learn. my grammar is not that good. i am not still comfortable to speak in english. hopefully after more months i can be a good english speaker. but writing and speaking in english means different thing though learning to write well is a start for me to learn.
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• India
31 Oct 09
I am kicking myself for not being able to answer this post! You have given a nice response :) I never felt pressure of being perfect but somehow that incident triggered the effect. Weird... I am glad you enjoy this site! I'm a proud member too!
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@dismalgrin (2604)
• United States
31 Oct 09
Whoever called you a 'kid' was being really immature. I'm sorry, but I feel that places like mylot are for us to have an open way to breakdown age barriors and I feel that anyone that brings up age is just too insecure to face a situation on it's own terms. I have seen this go on in face to face encounters too and it frausterates me that people choose to hide behind their age instead of using their brain to think with.
• India
31 Oct 09
A person is not worthy by their age, but by their wits. Hmm... That's right! But still there are some places where age....well experience matters. And I was a bit inexperienced. My response was balanced, but rest they know...
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
31 Oct 09
Hi furi, I loathe it when people use the expression kid. If they use it in a discussion I respond by talking about goats. Naturally in my mind as a kid is a young goat. So the person who called you that is not worth wasting your thoughts on. As for being unworthy of replying total nonsense, you are free to reply wherever you like and your smiling adult face will be welcome. Personally two of my friends on here have asked me not to reply to certain discussions of theirs, as my contribution would be so worthless they might be obliged to negatively rate me. So even though I feel bad about not recriprocating as they hardly start any discussions, I never once felt insulted when they asked me to keep out of their football chats. So if you're interested enough to open a topic to respond then do it. So go back and respond with your head high and if you come across the goat again then shun him.
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• India
31 Oct 09
Thanks for the valuable suggestion He is a pretty goat and I would like to do so :) Umm.. I would have felt really bad if someone told me so. But you took it in good mood. I am so happy I am part of such a community :)
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@Philbo (578)
• Canada
31 Oct 09
I sympathize. I look significantly younger than I actually am and while that is great it is really irritating to be treated as too young and too experienced to be good for anything. I didn't like being treated like a kid when I was a kid. Now it's getting really old. I understand. Now to get you back into fighting trim. Get on the lot and read comments and realize how stupid some of them are. There is a lot of intelligent discussion going on here but there is plenty here that might just help you realize that you are far from inferior. Go get 'em.
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• India
31 Oct 09
Thanks for the kind words:) No one likes to be ignored as incompetent ones, so I can understand your ire at that time!
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@jb78000 (15139)
31 Oct 09
i have seen some of your responses and they are much more intelligent than those from certain people claiming to be 40 or 50 but who act 10. this person sounds like one of them - try to ignore it, this person is being pathetic. also although it irrelevent 20 is not a kid by any means.
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• India
1 Nov 09
Thanks for appreciation! This discussion has provided me with some insight, that I'm a confused sort anyway. I am so glad that people from my admire list are responding here. And this person is from the same list! ....you see, how weird it gets to complain about someone you really adore!... hehe. I think I will just ignore him this time. I thought my age is not showing!!
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@jb78000 (15139)
1 Nov 09
it is in your profile, you could change it. lots do - have a look at all the 8 year olds in politics that claim to be 30+ and you might want to add a few wrinkles to that avatar if it is you.
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@Agoenxz (551)
• Indonesia
2 Nov 09
Well... What the hell happened?? Give your self a raise and don't just die on it...don't let it make you down.. No bodies perfect! Just be your self better and keep it up! Good luck!
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• India
10 Apr 10
Thanks for the response. Though I say it only now, Well, the person was a good friend of mine. And I hope he still is, But he is no kid for sure.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
31 Oct 09
Why do others feel they can 'tag' people? What is wrong with being a kid anyway? I can't help thinking that whoever said it was maybe a tiny bit resentful of the fact that they have lost their youth? You are so positive about it though and have turned a negative moment into something positive and got a discussion out of the episode! Aren't we all kids art heart? Don't we become kids again as we age? Maybe that person that said it is unwilling to admit that they, underneath, would like to be a kid again too? Hey! You managed to wake Mr.Lamb up so please keep operating!
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• India
31 Oct 09
Is that so? I thought he was already awake! I didn't kick him I swear! Uh huh... as I said above, I adore that person.. and it makes me feel like for putting bad of him. Please don't blame ;) I'm so happy he gave me a chance to talk with all my friends again! I have something in me! Thank you sooooo much
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
31 Oct 09
Well if he was, I wasn't aware of him. Now he's got his suit on ready for tomorrow... boys will be boys Look at the activity on here! GREAT!
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
31 Oct 09
I see the goats are having fun
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
2 Nov 09
hora--fugit Don't let us get you down,maybe that persoe was just jealous as a lot of us here might wish we were young again, I am not a kid,except by heart.Forget that silly person, when I was twenty I felt like an adult not a kid at all. You will do great, just respond and forget that dumb remark. The person had no right doing that so forget him or her. Just hone in on the discussion and pretend you are talking to the poster.Remember you are somebody,you are unique, you like yourself, you are hora__fugit,yell it and believe and go answer those discussions. Nobody is going to think you are a stupid kid. You gotta believe in yourself. You are as worthy of replying as I am and I am an elderly lady too. so forget dumb biases and respond like you can.
• India
10 Apr 10
Hi Lost in myLot, I failed to reply this one. What a shame! Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. You really think I should yell? I am so shy
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Apr 10
hiagain he he No I would suggest trying that when you are alone, as yelling I like myself in a crowd might really make you cringe and want to hide, look I am shy too so I just pep myself up at times by yelling when I am all alone,I am somebody, I am unique, I am Patsie Hatley otherwise out in public they are just going to say we are nuts.lol lol lol.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
9 Nov 09
Experience is only gained by forging ahead and continuing to be what you want, go after what you want, and experience life. I just checked your profile, here in the US you are considered a legal adult when you are 18. You are not a kid, and as long as you aren't acting like one by throwing tantrums or acting entitled, then you aren't one, so don't let anybody tell you that you are one or treat you as such. Why would you feel stupid? Not every discussion started by every friend ends up being something I have expertise or even interest in. Answer what seems interesting to you and things you have input into. Start interesting discussions too. You are not unworthy. Have some faith in yourself and faith from others will follow.
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• India
10 Apr 10
All you say about experience is quite true. Even if it doesn't apply to me
@tdemex (3540)
• United States
31 Oct 09
Hey keep your chin up my friend! Consider the source of the comment and remember your the better person! you have good friends here and you are doing great! Like water on a duck let it roll off and keep on pushing on! tdemex
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• India
31 Oct 09
Thank you so much:) Actually that was my fault indeed. I felt like saying something there while in fact I know nothing about love. Had some good aftereffects! Well, I like that person as much as I like you, or other members to say...
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@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
18 Apr 10
One would like to know, why such a small thing bothered you in the first place. So what if you are young. Enjoy every single moment of it. The one who called you a kid, are obviously jealous of beign over that stage. Now get of your butt and get started. TATA.
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• India
19 Apr 10
A kid is a kid is a kid. So much time has passed, still I feel the same.
@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
19 Apr 10
I am going to say this again. Get off your butt and get started. GGOOTT IITT!! TATA.
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@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
10 Apr 10
i would love to be called a kid again. that would make me feel young. you will find people like that. and if you feel you have been overpowered then you are. you know you are in one great site here. just go ahead and keep myLotting.
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• India
10 Apr 10
Feeling overpowered is being overpowered-- that's what you say I agree completely. myLot is a great site, and this incident was unable to separate me from you people Great thing is that the person in question too was just 'kidding'!