How? What from yourself in your youth would you wish to capture again?
2006-07-05 15:11:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
yes. in a sense. work is very different from school and family. i think its natural that you harden as you grow old. new experiences (especially, the bad ones)will drastically change your perceptions about life and human interaction. what matters though is that amidst this, you keep your values and that you learn to forgive and eventually move on.
what in my youth would i wish to capture again? my sense of wonder and purity of heart.
2006-07-05 15:24:12 · answer #1 · answered by jose martin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes life has harden me i was abused as a child not from my perents they where the most loving kind and supportive but they did not believe what i was saying so i learned at a young age keep your mouth shut and learn i was never a fearful person and i trusted every on including adults boy did i learn the hard way you do not trust anyone and i mean anyone it was a hard leason but one that was well learned so i learned to protect my self with my mouth and my wit i could out smart the best of them yet i never really got into bad trouble almost but was able to get out on my own would i like to cap0ture my youth i have my youth but i would never want to go back to my youth it was one of the most troubling times of my life i have now found myself and it took a long time i just wish the youth to-day would listen to what the adults have to say not much has changed except for the violance and that is scary .My answer is to be true to you self and you will never be alone and don't try to go back go forward because that is where the future is. one day at a time.
2006-07-05 23:17:11 · answer #2 · answered by kiethsale 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in some ways. I've been through the typical bad relationships, stabbed in the back, rejected, screwed over kind of stuff that leaves a person a little harder and less likely to trust. However, I have also found that life has softened me as well. I have learned to empathize with others even though we may not agree. I have learned to accept even though I may not understand. I have learned what love really is and I have learned what it means to give everything of yourself because of it.
I am not sure what I would capture from my youth. Unless it is the ability to run without pain.
2006-07-05 22:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by pennymaelane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really want to capture anything from my youth again because those things were based upon ignorance and naivety. Life has certainly hardened me, I used to live with a woman who was a heroin addict and I was addicted to alcohol and other substances before I became a Christian, but the love of Jesus is softening those areas that are needlessly hard. Praise the Lord!
2006-07-05 22:18:48 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, most definitely. I was married to an alcoholic abusive man who I wished was dead and he took his own life. Then, I felt a severe guilt for wishing this as God grants the deepest desires of our hearts. It's hard to wish for not wanting to ever have married him because I have two children from him and one is bipolar like him and the other is a sweetheart. Also, in leaving him, I found a temporary different life that I will always cherish filled with fantasy and frolic. Now, as I reach my late midlife, I am asking for peace and wish only that for my own children as well. I do wonder how life would have been different if my parents didn't move around so much in my youth.
2006-07-05 23:58:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. In the biggest way, life has hardened me. I wish that I could recapture the feeling that nothing is predetermined - all possibilities were open - that I was in control, of even the mundane things...what to eat for dinner, when to do the laundry, what friends to call. For a short, fleeting time when I was younger, not knowing what was ahead was freeing. I wish I felt that way again. Independent. Adventurous. Bold. Free.
2006-07-05 22:16:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hardened? Yeah I would say so. I think a lot of my childlike faith in humanity as a whole has diminished. My rose coloured glasses are becoming a bit foggy. I've tended to expect that all people have good in them and thus are capable of treating people with respect, honesty and integrity, and sadly, that's not the way it works, especially so in relationships, I can't automatically go in with blind faith that men are inherently good I like used to. Which is sad, I would like to capture that essence again in just expecting the best.
2006-07-06 18:17:39 · answer #7 · answered by Aussie Chick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, if my mid section is any indication. I've mellowed quite a bit, the fires of youth have tempered me to a pliable bronze as apposed to brittle steel. If I could pull one spin from the past I'd really enjoy one of those all day and night concerts that every kid in town would go to! Oh how the good times rolled and we rolled with them. Thank you for this fine memory, life sure is sweet!
2006-07-05 22:42:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course we all develop defense mechanisms to deal with painful experiences. Naivety of youth Incorporated with some of the knowledge gained along the way
2006-07-06 05:16:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really, I'm pretty satisfied, and don't think I'd change much at all....hardened? strange word. Experience and time are our trainers and things get easier if you constantly learn.
I want all the good times back but am glad I have the memories.
2006-07-06 00:17:57 · answer #10 · answered by -* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋