Do ye ever miss being a child/kid?

letsbehonest

I was watching Toy story 3 there a few days ago and it got me thinking about my childhood because I grew up watching the films and it made me think of how happy I used be back then and how happy I actually was back then compared to now.
I do know now that I am older I have my independence.
So, Do you ever miss your childhood?

seanybiker

Apart from not being old enough to drink then yeah I do miss it.

Metallitroll

sorry but i don't miss a thing regarding my past persona. with every new year comes further development; progress.

Sharpshooter

I miss being a child, being called a kid really gets my goat!

Tubsandtiles

OP I watched Toy story 3 a while back, brings back good memories of watching the Big Big Movie on Rte .

AskMyChocolate

No. But I'm looking forward to it.

"Well I'm the king of the swingrers yeah, the jungle vip... have two bananas"

\ I wanna stay in the jungle

seanybiker

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

"Well I'm the king of the swingrers yeah, the jungle vip... have two bananas"

\ I wanna stay in the jungle

Can't stop singing that now. In me head obviously

I reach the top and I can't stop etc shoopdedo lol

LighterGuy

Wish I was a kid again
Means i can grow up to look like this guy ... and work on boards

Metallitroll

i miss pontin's in pwelli, my brother taking the sloppiest shít in the little house atop the slide n expecting me to run him back to the chalet. i really do. but double dragon beckoned..

10yr later he absolutely cripples me with a shock kick to the nuts "know what thats for?? that time in pontin's."

missed.

AskMyChocolate

Hot Lips wrote: »

I miss being a child, being called a kid really gets my goat!

I don't billyve you. But if it does, chin up.

Aoifey!

Tubsandtiles wrote: »

OP I watched Toy story 3 a while back, brings back good memories of watching the Big Big Movie on Rte .

Aww I miss thst, we always had to go to mass before it was over so we'd tape it to watch the rest later.

seanybiker

Aoifey! wrote: »

Aww I miss thst, we always had to go to mass before it was over so we'd tape it to watch the rest later.

Ah the days if getting dragged to the holy family. Don't miss them at all.

smk89

Thinking back I only miss parts of it. Combine the innocence, excitability with the ability to drink, have sex, money and being able to wet yourself without anyone caring and your onto a winner!

christmas2010

Not sure I was ever a kid!!
Wasn't very happy as a child and always wanted to be grown up and independent.
Would like to have some happy memories of childhood.

Kimono-Girl

i don't miss being a child but i do miss the things you could do back then,


like for example nowadays when i go down the slide in the park i get nothing but disapproving looks from other parents....



....probably because i left my child at the top, but still

bonerm

Kind of a double edged sword. I can to a large degree do whatever I want nowadays so there's no one directing me or telling me what to do anymore. On the other hand as an adult I don't get much enjoyment out of people or things these days (esp compared to when I was a kid). Overall I'd probably prefer to be a kid again.

Galway K9

I miss being a kid such an adventure every minute

Gummy Panda

Hot Lips wrote: »

I miss being a child, being called a kid really gets my goat!

here's looking at you, kid

*pats*

pragmatic1

Nope. Late teens and early twenties was were it was it.

Chuchoter

I was like a really awkward weird child so not really...I do miss how exciting Christmas and Halloween were though.

sollar

I wouldn't want to go back to my childhood or even my teenage years. But i wouldn't mind going back to being 21 or 22.

Adyx

The eighties were a fantastic decade to be a child in even though we had no money. Great imaginations were all we needed (and jumpers for goalposts of course). And the lack of responsibility or worries.... I'd nearly give up the Internet to get that back again.

coffeelover

Really miss being a child Best years of my life
Hate being a teenager!

Agricola

Yeah I miss it. Independence is over rated, it involves too much responsibility.
It'd be great to live every day just pursuing happiness while nothing else is expected of you. No pressure to conform, to work hard, to settle down, to have the 2.5 kids, to have the nice car, the foreign holidays, to go to christenings, weddings and funerals, etc etc etc.
Cant beat a life of getting up every day to play football, playstation, go on the swings and play tag, all the while getting approving looks from all around you!
Nowadays when I go on the swings, people give me funny looks and seem to think my name is Peter File.

Krusader

Running out to the park after school, playing 3 and in with your mates, catching frogs and bees in a jar, playing marbles,conkers,top trumps, great days. Never see kids do those things now which is a pity

Mrmoe

I wouldn't mind being a kid for a few weeks or months, no reponsibilities, no stupid politics, no real worries.:)

Asphyxia

Totally The only worry you had was when you'll get your next chocolate bar :rolleyes:

Praetorian Saighdiuir

I miss all the sex...........................thanks father!

CrazyRabbit

I still haven't grown up.

Seriously though, my childhood was complete hell, so no thanks. But, I don't want to get any older

emeraldstar

Nah, I'm maybe happier now than I was as a child. More freedom.

And I can still watch Toy Story

Run_to_da_hills

I was quite good on the skateboard during the late 70's craze, knew most of the tricks, stunts etc, still have the board somewhere about, Gullwing trucks, kryptonic reds 75mm wheels, miss spending hours practicing on the road. Often see kids about on these things and feel like showing them how it's really done. I would prob break my neck on one now lol.

alwaysadub

I miss bits of it-the innocence and the friendships and things, but i wouldn't fancy going back to it and grow up all over again.

All the time. I don't necessarily want to be a child again but I would like to feel the same way I did as a child, I was happier back then. I honestly haven't been happy for the last decade or so.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Sometimes yes, sometimes no... it depends on what I'm recalling at the time.

I don't miss the years of school, which was just like doing unpaid work for a power-tripping boss in a job you can't quit, with colleagues who're utter prícks... then having to take your work home with you.

I do miss the excitement of christmas and going on summer holidays.
Also the inexplicable things that you were able to do and enjoy as a kid and not be looked at as if you have severe mental problems, like digging a hole in the lawn and filling it with water for no reason, or the adventure of sleeping in a tent in the garden... being easily amused I suppose.

I've also acquired some baggage along the way (haven't we all), which would be interesting to experience life without.

krudler

cereal toys, bring them back goddammit!

Adyx

alwaysadub wrote: »

I miss bits of it-the innocence and the friendships and things, but i wouldn't fancy going back to it and grow up all over again.

What if you didn't have to grow up?

krudler wrote: »

cereal toys, bring them back goddammit!

Bicycle reflectors from Frosties, pencil tops from Rice Krispies and Simpsons water guns.... Modern times are crap.

OakeyDokey

I miss being a child all the time I wish I lived in Neverland.

Jimmy the Wheel

Reading Bill Bryson's 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid', brought back a lot of the awe and wonder of childhood for me.

Kasabian

I am still a kid. I refuse to grow up.

Scanlas The 2nd

alwaysadub wrote: »

I miss bits of it-the innocence and the friendships and things, but i wouldn't fancy going back to it and grow up all over again.

What do you mean by innocence? I'm far more innocent now than I ever was as a kid, I was always up to mischief or getting into trouble. I used to torture bumble bees by dunking them under water in a bucket and watch them scramble for life to get onto a few leaves I gave them, then just as they were drying off their exhausted bodies on the leaf and ready to fly away I'd push them back in the water. Quite evil really playing God like that.

Jimmy the Wheel

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What do you mean by innocence? I'm far more innocent now than I ever was as a kid, I was always up to mischief or getting into trouble. I used to torture bumble bees by dunking them under water in a bucket and watch them scramble for life to get onto a few leaves I gave them, then just as they were drying off their exhausted bodies on the leaf and ready to fly away I'd push them back in the water. Quite evil really playing God like that.

By any chance, does your father keep your balls in a jar, locked in his room?

Scanlas The 2nd

Karsini wrote: »

All the time. I don't necessarily want to be a child again but I would like to feel the same way I did as a child, I was happier back then. I honestly haven't been happy for the last decade or so.

What age did you start to lose your happiness, I'd say 14-18 were the unhappiest years of my life.

Scanlas The 2nd

Jimmy the Wheel wrote: »

By any chance, does your father keep your balls in a jar, locked in his room?

I wasn't the only one doing it, we'd all gather round the bucket and have a good laugh.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Youth is wasted on the young

I think this is another reason why when you get to a certain age a lot of people yearn for children, so you can live vicariously through them

--LOS--

Some of it, I remember a time being absolutely happy, great friends etc but there's also a lot I wouldn't like to relive.

Angron

Not really, I hate children. I don't want to be one again.

Duggy747

The experiences of holidays / The Den / watching cartoons like soap operas (When is Fred going to stop beating about the bush and just shag Daphne :pac:)

I wouldn't like to relive school again. Sure, I had some great times bollocking about but to go through all the horseshìt again would be crazy in my eyes. When I finished my LC I vowed, no matter what points I got, that I would never ever stay and repeat the year for a few shìtty extra points.........fùck that, I'm ouuuuuuuttttaaaa here fùckers!!

Heh, I actually had a dream last week where I was back in school. I was still me in my present age but I was thinking "I'm 25 and I'm worrying about my maths homework..............OH NO!! I'm back in school!!"

I woke up, realised it was a dream.........................and then had a **** :pac:

phill106

I do, mostly because I can't remember most of mine, my memory is terrible!

Scanlas The 2nd

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What age did you start to lose your happiness, I'd say 14-18 were the unhappiest years of my life.

I succumbed to depression at age 15 and never really got through it.

Little Acorn

I don't miss any of the bad times obviously, but I do miss alot of the good things about it.

Mainly having a child's imagination.
Hours of playing outside in the garden, in fields,or at the beach with some games I would have invented.
Believing that there really were fairies living under the bushes and in the long grass, and that someday I would find them.
Believing that there was the possibility that my dolls and teddy bears really did come to life when I was asleep, which I would test by seeing if they had moved position.:o
Believing that there was such a thing as real magic [whereas nowadays they are just clever magicians, and mentalists to me].
Believing that other magical lands such as Narnia really could possibly exist, and that if I searched hard enough I might find the secret entry to one of these lands. Imagining that one of these lands might look something like one of the lands from 'The Faraway Tree'.

I miss the levels of excitement and fun that only a child can feel. Would get sooooo excited about christmas, or getting a new toy, or going to Waterworld in Bundoran.
I miss the feelings of just simple absolute and utter contentment where you have no other thought or worry in the world, such as when watching saturday cartoons, reading Enid Blyton/Roald Dahl/ or playing with my coloring in books.

I miss people handing me money to 'buy sweeties', and I miss getting as many selection boxes and easter eggs that I used to get.[I still get some!]

From when I was slightly older I miss building huts, tip the can, snatch the bacon, red rover and lots of other games.

So yeah, wish I still had the sense of imagination and belief that anything is possible[less crazy than my younger imagination though!:pac:],
wish I could get more excited about life,
and wish I still found it as easy to just feel complete happiness and contentment over little things without always having something to worry about.

Angron

Karsini wrote: »

I succumbed to depression at age 15 and never really got through it.

Same here, it's pretty damn sh1tty.