Are you afraid of growing up?

[disneyworldluvr349]

I know this sounds lame, but recently I am really wishing I could go back in time, because I DON'T WANT TO GROW UP. I need Peter Pan to take me to Neverland. I am afraid of growing up because I don't want to leave everything behind. I want to always be able to go to WDW with my family, and I don't want that to change. I wish I could be three years old again and live my childhood again and again. Does anyone else feel like this ? I am almost 17, and dreading my b-day.

 

[reminisce]

i dont think ive ever had that, just fear of being old.

like, senile.


i dont know, something about the wrinkles and the sad way people watch old people..it makes my heart ache. and people respect the elderly because...they should. i want respect for being myself.

one more point on age: i dont want to lose my ability to see, hear, or transport myself!


but just growing up? thats not a big deal for me. i just want to jump the college hurdle already!

 

[Babyjustrun]

I don't want to because i'm realizing I wasted basically half of my teenage years already.

 

[reminisce]

I don't want to because i'm realizing I wasted basically half of my teenage years already.

i seriously doubt you have. even if it doesnt seem like youve been doing much, think about everything youve learned- not just in school, but about how the world works, about life...

im stopping before i sound so corny i belong on a cob

 

[*~*stacey*~*]

When I was about 15 I felt the exact same way and wanted to go to Neverland and never grow up. Now not so much, I find that as you grow up you find new fun things to do at each age so you don't mind being that little bit older, and its not like we're gonna wake up one day from being 18 to being 40 so its never a drastic change. However this whole view might change when I turn 19 and realise I'm in my last teen year

 

[life of the party]

im terrified.

 

[Tinkerbell424]

I'm terrified of it.
The only thing I'm scared of is the time that's passing is going by so fast.
I feel like I'm wasting everyday by not doing things to the fullest or having the fun I know I can.
I hate thinking about growing up.

 

[reminisce]

well, if you spend too much time worrying about it, the time will pass faster.

i say, just live.

 

[hkrox]

I'm not as much scared but not happy, cause I like my life now and all of my friends and I don't want to leave everyone and everything behind.

 

[StitchfansJr]

Yeah, I've always felt that.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I'm not scared.

I'm 17 and in college, so I've always been on the fast-track of life. Now I'm wishing I had more time to be a teenager. I never really realized how great being a teenager is until recently. I mean, you're supported by your parents, you always have that 'teenager' excuse in your back pocket, etc.

I've lived a comfortable life, but I'm not ignorant to the real world. I know it's a big and scary place, and I'm kind of...nervous about it. Getting my first apartment kind of makes me terrified. It seems like such a big step right now, but I know that when I eventually get to it, it'll be no big deal.

I thought college was a huge step until I started. I thought driving was a big deal until I started. When I was young & I thought about these things, they seemed so abstract. Now everything is here in.my.face.right.now.

I don't want to grow up, but I don't want to be younger either. Time goes by so quickly, it feels like tomorrow I'll wake up and be 40. I'm afraid of getting old in the vision loss, hearing loss, arthritis, alzheimers, kind of way.

But for now, I'm just going to live life as much as I can, and worry as little as I can.

 

[imabrat]

Not at all. I'm very excited to be on my own, get married, have a job, have a family, etc.

 

[Axel]

I'm not scared of growing up. I'm scared of growing old.

I never want to be considered "old". I want to be that lady who is still snowboarding at 60. The one who still gets up and cheers at baseball games when she's 70. The one who just has that young energy, even though her body says she's too old to still have that vibrancy.

And I'm afraid I won't be like that.

 

[Tinkerbell94]

I'm terrified of it.
The only thing I'm scared of is the time that's passing is going by so fast.
I feel like I'm wasting everyday by not doing things to the fullest or having the fun I know I can.
I hate thinking about growing up.

totally... I have some days that i wish I could do again if I was lazy. I want to live life to the fullest. It feels like yesturday I was going in to 8th grade...

 

[Sparx]

when i was younger, it terrified me. then i started apartment hunting, and it terrified me. college applications terrified me.
but
i found an apartment
i got into college
i can afford it all
i have a car

its not scary anymore. i'm ready to start the next part of my life.

 

[DramaQueen]

I am TERRIFIED.

I'm turning 20 in less than 2 months! I have been thinking about it a lot lately.
I got a credit card, in order to buil a line of credit so that I can get my own place in the future, I'm half way done university, which means I have about 2 or 3 more years left before I have to venture off into the real world!!
I have a serious boyfriend of 3 years who I love more than I ever though i could, and he talks about going to Australia and this and that and it TERRIFIES me!

The though of having a child in the next 10 years is like...absolutley horrifying. I have this fear that I will have a child and HATE it, or not be able to handle it. I think that I am thinking this way because I'm only 19 now, and once I'm prego my maternal instincts will kick in, but right now I'm terrified that I'm going to someday wind up with some stupid kid that I'll never be able to handle. I think a lot about my parents and I'm like....honestly...HOW DID THEY DO IT?!?!

I dont even know what I want to do with my life yet!! I'm running out of time.
This whole growing up thing REALLY freaks me out. I have a serious Peter Pan complex going on.

 

[reid_man]

I'm not scared at all. I'm actually really excited! I can't wait to live on my own

 

[saratogadreamin09]

Right now at the age of 14, no

I'm looking forward to going to college and getting married then maybe I'll start to wish time would slow down

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

I have always looked forward to getting married, having a family of my own, etc, but now when it seems like my childhood is gone and I have to stand on my own to feet it makes me sad.
I think of the quote from Inidana Jones, "We seem to be reaching the point in life when things start getting taken away."

I don't want to be apart from my family, and I am just worried with college around the bend how I am going to deal.

I am glad there is more people who feel the way I do.

And for those of you who aren't I am envious.

 

[goob9954]

I don't to want to but because my childhood was great (except for my lil bro dyin. worst summer of my life) but I still have some years to go but I don't want to not want to go to disney with my parents I just wish I could stay a teen forever