I am 33 years old, and I have noticed a very strong trend. As I get older, more and more of my peers are turning more and more conservative. When I was in college, a majority of my classmates and friends were rather liberal and free-spirited (hey... protest downtown at noon!). Once I graduated, I noticed that people I worked with (even my own age) were less prone to liberal ideas, especially regarding social issues.
Now that I am 33, and have 3 kids, I am finding that most of my friends and peers are much more conservative... even a few that were rather liberal during college. My own views certainly reflect my lifestyle, as well as the challenges I face in life, which have certainly changed in the last decade.
Additionally, I have a couple friends that are now in their mid-30's, and still rather Liberal... however, the way they express themselves now seems tame compared to their actions in 1995.
Am I unique in noticing this? Or is this pretty standard across the country?
2006-10-14 17:33:53 · 8 answers · asked by envision_man 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Child rearing years we all tend to be more conservative.
We get less idealistic. Less cause orientated. We realize that the world problems don't go away and we aren't capable of doing much about it like we dreamed we would. It is a time of grasping reality & sometimes our lofty ideas just don't fly. We get more realistic.
Then maybe like me age 56 I am back to being more like I am younger. Unencoumbered by marriage and the kids are gown. I am still stuck in reality but have a great deal more fun and things roll off my back now instead of me picking up a picket sign.
I am not resigned to the world as it is....I am just matter of fact that the world is f up place. And I can just do one thing at a time.
And this is my time to be someone I have becoming for a very long time. I amt a pacifist, but I realize there are some wars to be faught, I am a vegaterian but I sill love my ocassional meat, I am a Christian, but less churchie, I am pro life, but also pro choice.
I used to wear flowers in my hair, then I permed my hair- went to the Salon. Now I have grown it again and if I ever remarry I will be barefoot on a beach with flowers in my hair. I was very judgmental of people, now I know better because most of the things I judged have happened to me. I am more willing to let people be who they are becasue I need to be me. I have gone from rags to riches to rags and who knows maybe to riches again. I didn't have time to explore the creative part of me.....now I do. I don't need to MAKE people SEE MY side of things becasue I know now that there are many sides and that is ok.
I have changed and evolved into me. I am more me than I have ever been. I was funkie, then proper and now backat to funkie again.
What will be will be.
Peace
2006-10-14 18:02:20 · answer #1 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the people that are changing their views as much as society is changing around the people as they age. When we're young, we feel like the world is ours and we have that feeling of power like we can really make a difference- it makes us take on a more liberal stance. As you age, you see this new generation with new ideas (maybe ones that your generation would not have stood for) and you you're like "whoa, no way.." So you take on a more conservative stance because.. well.. your youth is a big part of your life and you always carry those ideas you had with you, you don't want them changed by these new kids.
Plus, once you reach mid-life you're starting your own families and I've found that once people have children of their own a lot of their ideas change due to their wanting to protect their children from any/everything.
2006-10-14 17:45:40 · answer #2 · answered by maggielynn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-19 10:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did for a while, but I allowed it to pass. when a person is young in years, people years, not doggy years,they tend to be in the Now. ageing and one looks back at the follies of youth. Mistakes, sure, I made a few, regrets? I had them, yet now I look on them as events that happened, so no point in regreting. Learn from them and move on. Life is a fun journey,if one allows it. Here I am Now. and I am happy becuase I choose to be.
2006-10-14 17:47:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just the opposite for me. The older I get the more liberal I become. I am 60 and most of my friends are liberal.
2006-10-14 17:44:18 · answer #5 · answered by doglover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At least there is a physiological factor. When you get older you have less energy to change things.
2006-10-14 17:46:19 · answer #6 · answered by TheLion 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it`s nomal as u get older u seem to think on wat ur going to do because u could get hurt really bad like when i was little i would try to do dangest thing and now i see how dum i was when i was little
2006-10-14 17:40:17 · answer #7 · answered by phillip b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the older you get the more you have to lose...family,home,careers,possessions,bank accounts etc. etc. why rock the boat?
2006-10-14 18:00:08 · answer #8 · answered by Ryan M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋