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| Nope, hated being a kid! |
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Yo!Chingo
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea
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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: Would you relive your childhood if given the chance? |
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I was wondering if given the chance would anyone here relive their childhood? I for one wouldn't take a million U.S $$$ to relive my childhood. I had great parents and a good home, but hated being a kid. I just never could relate to people my own age.
It would be tempting though just to screw with the other kid's heads with the knowledge I have now and learn about 20 more skills when my brain could really absorb it. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| None of your options. I'd re-live some - family holidays, friendships - but gladly skip adolescence, being bullied at school and whatnot. I wouldn't start smoking or do drugs either, so there's a lot of stuff I'd wanna change as opposed to re-live. |
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heydelores
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, I'd do it. I'd even take the bad stuff again just to have the good things. And it would certainly be a bonus if I somehow knew that I was reliving it and could appreciate it more and make the most out of it. An even bigger bonus if I could take some of the things I know now back with me. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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I couldn't wait to grow up. So, no thanks.
Except for summer vacations. Those I could re-live gladly. |
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seoulunitarian
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject: re: |
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I chose absolutely, only because I would change so many things I have done, particularly leading to marriage and divorce. However, if reliving my childhood again in the same exact manner is what you meant, I would vote for absolutely not.
Peace,
Daniel |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't want to deal with the cliques at my elementary school. Man, kids can be sooooooo nasty. It never dawned on me to bully kids or be nasty for no reason, and I didn't get it when it happened to me or other harmless kids. My parents were of the turn the other cheek variety, and I wonder if I had plotted revenge and gotten even, would they have left me alone. The teasing wasn't too bad, actually- I was just a sensitive kid, and I've figured it all out since then, but I didn't understand it at the time (pack of older girls picking on me cuz they were jealous- I was a "have" and they were "have-nots"). Thing that got me through it was that I swore I'd get out of central WI and do something cool/successful with my life, and they'd all end up losers. Guess what? I was right~  |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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never!
starting in around the 6th grade.. i use to keep a calendar of exactly how many years, how many months, how many weeks, and how many days i had before i'd be out of their household. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Umm I'm probably would have re-lived my teenage years specifically about the age of 15 where I went off the rails in typical nerd-turned-burnout- style and give myself a huge kick up the ass! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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15? If I could start at 17 I'd re-live my high school graduating year and my college years gladly. 
| periwinkle wrote: |
| ... the cliques... kids can be sooooooo nasty.. bully... be nasty for no reason |
we tend to forget that |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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my entire life under my parent's roof sucked.. and nothing i could do about that.
but i'd love to be able to do my university years over. i messed up those years in everyway you can imagine. no focus, too involved with abusing whatever substance came my way, etc..
i have no regrets whatsoever with everything in my life post-university.. but would have lived to have academically took advantage of those uni years - a degree that fit with me, in addition to international exchange programs. |
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Yo!Chingo
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: re: |
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| seoulunitarian wrote: |
However, if reliving my childhood again in the same exact manner is what you meant, I would vote for absolutely not.
Peace,
Daniel |
No just go back and relive a childhood. You could change anything you wanted.
I personally was like Peri; I got bullied every single day of my life as a kid. I was way to quiet and the other kids knew that I wouldn't defend myself when they picked on me. I generally just cried and gradually developed a self loathing that haunts me till this day. It's so sad really what childhood can do and how it affects you into adulthood.
I've been home on occasion and have seen the people that harrased me as a kid, and it always makes me feel damn good! I went to college where I had a frickin' blast, graduated with honors in a worth while major from a great Uni, have had a good career, and married an awesome guy who I completely trust. Most of the ones that were mean to me now live in a trailer, never went to college, and have 2.5 kids on welfare. 
This sounds crazy but sometimes I feel like I owe those people. They're the ones that drove me to better myself and to actually get a life. I could have easily ended up like them if I hadn't told myself that I would make something of myself to spite them. I saw one of those girls recently in a supermarket who had actually told me that I would stay in Brunswick County, N.C and end up being a nobody. She came up to me dragging 2 kids behind and had gained about 50 lbs. I gladly told her about my life, our house, and my accomplishments in the 10 years since graduation from High School. It felt soooo good.
Man, I'm a spiteful Beyatch!!! |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Ofcourse I would. But could I be a 6'5 290lbs 5% bodyfat monster? Would love to go back to highschool and meet some of the idiots I hated. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: re: |
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| Yo!Chingo wrote: |
| seoulunitarian wrote: |
However, if reliving my childhood again in the same exact manner is what you meant, I would vote for absolutely not.
Peace,
Daniel |
No just go back and relive a childhood. You could change anything you wanted.
I personally was like Peri; I got bullied every single day of my life as a kid. I was way to quiet and the other kids knew that I wouldn't defend myself when they picked on me. I generally just cried and gradually developed a self loathing that haunts me till this day. It's so sad really what childhood can do and how it affects you into adulthood.
I've been home on occasion and have seen the people that harrased me as a kid, and it always makes me feel damn good! I went to college where I had a frickin' blast, graduated with honors in a worth while major from a great Uni, have had a good career, and married an awesome guy who I completely trust. Most of the ones that were mean to me now live in a trailer, never went to college, and have 2.5 kids on welfare.
This sounds crazy but sometimes I feel like I owe those people. They're the ones that drove me to better myself and to actually get a life. I could have easily ended up like them if I hadn't told myself that I would make something of myself to spite them. I saw one of those girls recently in a supermarket who had actually told me that I would stay in Brunswick County, N.C and end up being a nobody. She came up to me dragging 2 kids behind and had gained about 50 lbs. I gladly told her about my life, our house, and my accomplishments in the 10 years since graduation from High School. It felt soooo good.
Man, I'm a spiteful Beyatch!!! |
That girl at the supermarket sounds like a nasty beyatch!!! You should have slapped her! |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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I was wondering if given the chance would anyone here relive their childhood? I for one wouldn't take a million U.S $$$ to relive my childhood. I had great parents and a good home, but hated being a kid. I just never could relate to people my own age.
It would be tempting though just to screw with the other kid's heads with the knowledge I have now and learn about 20 more skills when my brain could really absorb it. |
I feel exactly the same way. Strange thing about people; whenever I do say that my childhood wasn't very happy, people always ask whether I had bad parents, a traumatic experience, etc. But none of that was the case; I just didn't like being a kid much. The playing and simplicity of life was fun, but even as a kid I could see that my older brothers did cool things and always knew the right thing to say, and I didn't.
I might not get agreement on this, but I think many teachers here were passive people as children and got bullied a lot. People who are popular and on the football team and have a fast car probably don't end up leaving their hometown if things are good. I don't begrudge my friends who did this, but yes, it's admittedly nice to go home and see the jerk or the girl who was too good to talk to you now getting a part for you from the warehouse or running the karaoke machine.
Ken:>
This is slightly off-topic, but here's a poem I give my adult students in class about the guy back home who never grew up.
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The Year That He Was Cool (Don Walker, 1991)
I can see him by the poolroom door
In 1965
Answering only to his sweet law
Deadpan and alive
He could surf the curl on a barmaid�s lip
He could surf a yard of beer
He surfed the break down the Queensland coast
For six months of that year
Back in a time of innocence
He did not suffer fools
He put aside all childish things
In the year that he was cool
They said he�d screwed a meter maid
The girls said it wasn�t true
He knew a guy who knew Pete Zuber
From �The Shades of Blue�
Many of the same girls claimed to have spent
The night in his panel van
He�d shake his head and we�d admire
The politeness of the man
They said he�d smoked raw opium
The line was hard to rule
Between the facts and legend in
The year that he was cool
Now its hard to believe how twenty-five years
Has underlined that face
Undermined that special time
That ties him to his place
To see his eyes it�s hard to say
Just when the lights were drowned
There ain�t much else to do besides decay
In this six-pack town
Now he�s seen all the pricks who stayed at school
Come home with law degrees
The girls who once were his to choose
Have traveled overseas
And he harbors such a hatred
He drinks in such a rage
But the target�s hard to focus on
Approaching middle age
Now he stands outside the bowling club
Barfing like a mule
No one recalls or wants to know
About the year that he was cool |
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003
Location: 서울
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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never in a million years would i want to relive it. even though i don't like my job now, i wouldn't trade it for being back at school. imagine a place where you go every day, where you are forced to learn things you aren't interested in, are told what to do constantly, and have to spend your time with snotty, obnoxious kids. and as much as i love my parents, i hate living with them..
rutabaga.. i loved those lyrics.. its so true, the people who are cool in school are the ones who turn out to be total losers in life. looking back, i'm glad i was the quiet one who got picked on every now and then for doing well in exams. of course there are many people in this world who i envy, but i don't envy anyone i grew up with. |
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