The Simple Happiness Of Childhood - No Thanks!

The funny thing about me is this. When I was a child, everything seemed some much simpler. I did not have to do anything except for good to school, work hard, and come home, before then I enjoyed life. There was no worrying about where money would come from, what the government was doing, the state of the economy, and all those worries that tend to invade my life when I am an adult. So there are freedoms when we are adults, but those freedoms are with worries as well. For every thing that we can do, there are also many more things that we have to worry about when we are adults. Of course, some people grow up while many people just merely get older. Still when I was a child, I wished to grow up. As an adult, there are days where I cannot help but think that life would be much smoother if I was a child and just did not care.

I much prefer being an adult. I totally get that things were more simple when we were kids. I hear people say they wish they could go back to their childhood. And I don't know about their childhood. Maybe something incredible is in their past. But I wouldn't go back for anything. I like having choices. I don't like people being in control of my own well being. So I'm thankful for the here and now.

I agree with you. "Everything will come right at the right time." It's different between childhood and adulthood. The freedom itslef has different form. So, it depends on how we deal with it. Talking about my past childhood though, yeah, I am very happy with it. I hope all people can be happy with their childhood.

I love being an adult too because I have now my freedom of choice. Choose what I want to do in life. But I don't know sometimes I have a feeling that I really want to go back when I was only a child. Maybe because childhood life is much more simpler.

I think that we all look back with 'rose tinted glasses' at our childhood and remember mainly only the good points off it. Yes we were free of the financial worries and commitments that life as an adult brings, for most of us we were fed regularly, loved, housed and kept warm ( I do know that sadly this is not the case for far too many of our world's children). Then we hear 'school days are the best time of your life!' - but are they? I can remember teh pressures of homework, exams, report cards etc - no they certainly weren't the happiest days of MY life all the time! When we are children and begin to get a little older we can't wait to be an adult, to gain our independence to dress, eat, travel, work etc just as we want to, but when we get to that stage we realise that it is not as wonderful as we expected. There are pros and cons to both situations - the innocence and happiness of early childhood is perhaps the best time of your life - everything is new and exciting, you know (again I know not all children)that we have loving parents and famoiily who are ther to care and love us and we have no worries. As that childhood continues though we have a lot of hard lessons to learn - we have changing bodies, relationships, disappointment, more responsibility - this is not the happiest time of our lives. Then as adults we have to struggle with housing, feeding, clothing and caring for ourselves and our families. So I guess that apart from very early childhood no part of our life is ideal. Hence the old saying 'Life's a b1tch, and then you die!'

As we grow old the definition of happiness for us differs about the way we look into life.Happiness in childhood is inosence and pure because we can say that we are happy the way our parents take care of us and pamper us but as we grow old we also mature and the way we define how we become happy is different now.But for me the way to b ehappy is the contentment,i can not be happy as long as i didnt achieve my goals in life.

I had a good childhood my adulthood well could have been better. I would have to agree with you I do much prefer being an adult. I feel sorry for my grandkids, they don't have the freedoms of childhood that I enjoyed. Like taking loong walks along the river by myself. Or just the ordinary stuff like going to the park. Teens in this town get harrassed by the police when they are in the park with out an adult. As a young child we didn't think nothing of going off by ourselves or in groups and just having fun exploring our world. To many dangers for kids to do those things these days. So really I wouldn't want to be a kid now days.

most of the times, i think that way. especially when i go out of town with my friends, i keep thinking that if am a kid, my parents would never let me do it. also, i have my own money so i get to do pretty much whatever i want. although, sometimes, i can't help but think that it would be much nicer to be a kid again. no worries, less stress.

It is really gr8 dis.. becaz it gives other look to the people who love their childhood and hate adulthood. I am one of the person who love their childhood. But thanks for give me other sight....

Yes i miss those childhood days a lot myself. I wish i could go back to such days. Kids are so cute active helping and cuteee again. When we grow up we confine ourselves to the world of rules and regulations but for kids nothing but simple innocence. I love kids. I have my relatives kids with me who used to stay with me for a lot of time. I want to spend as much as i can with such kids! Cheers!

Though happiness during our childhood years are priceless I still super agree with you.. Adulthood is also happy in the way we want it to be happy. Like you said we got freedom. When we were kids we don't have much of that since our parents or our elders are always being followed. They think they are always right, lol! Right now, we are already on the right age so we can do what we want to do, choose the things we like and be with the people we love. Therefore, adulthood is happier and more exciting!