How has your worldview changed when you became an adult, if you have, if not how do you think it will?

Answer 1

The trick is to not let it change you. I'm trying like crazy to keep that child-like innocence, but blend in the perfect amount of age earned wisdom. Realize you are an adult, but don't ever let life catch up with you. EVER

Answer 2

My worldview has changed a great deal since I've became an adult. I now see the world with open eyes...in that when I was a child I never knew or experienced racism or prejudice until I grew up and relocated from the south to the north. Which is quite ironic because most racial disputes derived from the deep south.

My best friend was Caucasian and myself being a person of color never thought people had hangups with the color of their skin that much until I grew older and wiser to the bigotry of many human beings in today's society.

The world today has advanced and changed in so many ways, as far as modern technology, the environment, religion, cultural and ethnicity to name a few is concerned. But, the core heartbeat of indifference still lives on in spite of civil rights and the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 3

When I was young, I thought everything was black and white. Something was right or wrong, good or bad. As an adult in my late-30s who has traveled to various countries around the world and met different people from different cultures, very little seems black and white. Everything is so complicated.

That sounds negative in a way, but I have to say that a positive of my changed outlook is the realization that you can't categorize people as "good" or "bad" or make those kinds of generalizations about races or cultures. The fact is that most people in the world are working hard, doing their best, with the hope that their kids' lives will be better than their own lives have been.

Answer 4

As an adult, the scope of my worldview has become much larger than when I was being raised by my family. This is what is supposed to happen as one ages. Otherwise, we would have a world full of kids and the prodigys are much fewer than the average children, so we wouldn't have many skilled decision makers and leaders. Even prodigys need their parents.

Answer 5

I think I have become more tolerant of just about everything.
I have a view of the world being much smaller and more interconnected and interdependent than I did as a child.
I see the world as finite and very vulnerable. As a child I was indestructible because I had not really had to face death or failure. Parents tend to protect their children from the uglies of life. It was a big shock to realize just how ugly things could be. But it was also very clear to see by comparison just how wonderful and full of joy things could be.
I guess that I just see us all as more alike than different now. People have the same struggles and dreams and needs as every other person alive. I used to think in terms of groups, like race, culture, religion, wealth, health, etc. Now I know that it really doesn't matter.

Answer 6

As I've aged, I've discovered that the world is much larger and more complex than I first could have imagined. As a child, my world was no larger than I. And as such, I interacted only on such a level as I could control the world and be fulfilled by it.

Now I see that there is much greater good and much darker evil than I could ever have imagined. And that, while it is not my job to change everything, it is my duty to allow myself to be formed by both the world without and the world within.

I find myself more fully identifying with both suffering and joy. More readily entering into the lives of others. And certainly less bound by "rules of behavior" while more bound by "rules of conduct".

Now, instead of saying "I don't do...this or that", I find myself questioning whether a given course of action will positively or negatively affect those around me. The question has transitioned from "What is the right thing to do?" to "How can I more effectively love?"

Answer 7

My world view has changed twice.

1. When I became a parent.

2. When I read "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan.

Answer 8

I don't separate things into black and white bins anymore, because there's too much grayness in between.
everything is much more complicated and limits tend to be blurred.
life was simple and easy until I started university. I miss those days sometimes.

Answer 9

Adults make fools into geniuses.

adulthood is resignation to "objectivity"
Nice life you have there.

Mooooooooooooooo

Answer 10

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