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Post by B. on Jan 20, 2024 4:26:49 GMT -5
I just turned 25 last month, and reflecting on my brain now and age 20 - 21 I feel like a different person. My personality, beliefs, and priorities/values are, I think at their foundation, fundamentally the same, but I approach everything in life in such a different way. I see two sides much more. I feel more present and more balanced. I feel more stable and less polarised in opinions on things. I feel like everything happens for a reason and that I can take things one by one, while still having long-term goals and aspirations. I feel optimistic, lucky, and hopeful that maybe, just maybe, everything will work out for me.
What about you? How has your brain changed in your (mid) 20s? Between 20s and 30s? Between teens and 20s? Between childhood and teens? (answer as applicable).
-B.
Edit: I didn't think for one second that at age 25 I'd still post on a website I joined at 12 years old. But I'm grateful and happy to be here.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jan 20, 2024 5:32:46 GMT -5
I really feel like I'm on a constant brain shift, like a roller coaster. But a big change occurred when I moved away from my parents 4 years ago.
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Post by Reba on Jan 20, 2024 6:24:41 GMT -5
my brain reached its present state in Autumn 2020 when I started thinking about the Reaper every day. nothing particular caused it, but I was turning 22 so my brain was probably just finished developing.
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Post by Mr. Sharpe on Jan 20, 2024 13:49:11 GMT -5
I'm in my mid-20s and in the last few years I have at once become more understanding of other people and less tolerant of BS. This sounds like a contradiction in terms and it kinda is. My brain is a difficult place to be.
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Post by Reba on Jan 20, 2024 13:54:24 GMT -5
I'm in my mid-20s and in the last few years I have at once become more understanding of other people and less tolerant of BS. This sounds like a contradiction in terms and it kinda is. My brain is a difficult place to be. Damn, based on you being a middle school teacher I imagined you were like 40.
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Post by Mr. Sharpe on Jan 20, 2024 13:57:40 GMT -5
I'm in my mid-20s and in the last few years I have at once become more understanding of other people and less tolerant of BS. This sounds like a contradiction in terms and it kinda is. My brain is a difficult place to be. Damn, based on you being a middle school teacher I imagined you were like 40. Yeah, my students told me that I should be out living my life doing something I really enjoyed while I was young. So I left. True story. (that's not the only reason I left, but it was a bit of an epiphany moment).
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jan 20, 2024 19:34:51 GMT -5
I'm not sure. i think in a lot of ways i haven;t changed. I think i'm more comfortable in social situations than I was, for certain. I suppose if anything has changed it is just the usual thing of understanding that literally nobody has any idea what they are doing. I don't know if that is something that comes with age or not, though, because I know a huge amount of people that don't seem to accept that yet.
I also guess I feel more confident about myself and my abilities?
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Jan 22, 2024 18:54:10 GMT -5
I also haven't changed too much except for maybe becoming more outgoing. I have gotten better at taking constructive criticism, in my teens I took any critique of my writing as a personal attack.
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Post by Resemblance on Jan 22, 2024 19:27:58 GMT -5
Between childhood and teenage hood, I don't think I've fundamentally changed all too much. I've always been quite pessimistic and odd. I suppose it's just gotten more severe over time. As time goes on I have delved more into the oddities of art, and I've become more accepting of various things and of people's differences. I will come back every time it becomes applicable.
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Post by it's OLLIE NOT BALLIE on Jan 22, 2024 23:04:51 GMT -5
i don't like unicorns as much as i used to
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