Thread: childhood

It was perfect. Minus the whole not knowing a word of English and kids thinking you're weird because of it thing, but that only lasted a year at most.

It was awesome and nostalgic. However if I had done the things now when i was younger it would of been even crazier to look back on.

I would class my childhood up until my 18th! And oh boy was it awesome

Indifferent.

I think I had the best chilhood possible. Everyday was crammed with doing nothing but trying to have a fun time. I think that's why I'm always bored nowadays... I had too much fun.

It all went downhill when I was 13 and moved to a new state. But it picked up again by 13 1/2

You coudl be right there Michael! Being a kid was awesome! Everything is done for you, you get what you want, you can do what you want, no worries about bills, relationships, getting through life, you just have fun!!!

It sucked and then it was cool at the same time.....but for the most part it sucked. No wonder I'm such an enigma.

Let's see; long stretches of boredom and tedium, interspersed with occasional traumatic, frightening, or embarrassing moments. It seemed to take forever at the time, but when I look back on it, it hardly seems like it really happened at all.

Some fun times too, but overall, it's much better to be old.

I had a good childhood, even under the circumstances of divorce and visitation and all that crap. My sis and I always stuck together.

My childhood was very interesting. I think my childhood truly ended once I finished grade 9, went through so much before that and I finally just matured (to a certain extent ). When I look back on it now it sort of creeps me out, because I was so different in all perspectives, very naive and unnoticing of the world around me. It's weird because it was only six years ago that I was in grade 6, wore glasses and was completely friendless.

Crazy how some things change that fast.

How did this thread elude me...

I feel angst, even thinking about puberty.

My childhood wasn`t all that great, I was glad to get it over with.

Originally Posted by Spartiate

My childhood wasn`t all that great, I was glad to get it over with.

Now you can fly like a God, and i'm still stuck going through limbo.

Indifferent. There was good and bad, great and terrible.

Life as an adult is far, far better.

My childhood was great, and it still is, if 16 counts

I'm almost an adult

Honestly, my childhood has been sucky. It could have been alot worse, however it has been crap and some things were unfair and should never happen to a child but I dunno I got through it all and I guess it has turned out ok.

Mine was ok until I became a man and started feeling the need for women. Then it started to suck. Still ain't solved that problem yet.

My childhood was fantasic and my Mum is a star. My brother and I are twins so I always had a friend to share experiences with.

Sure, there was a divorce. But that's ok, could have been a lot worse. I was and still am disabled, but it was and is never too negative an edge.

So yeah, a big thankyou to my Mum and my brother.

Indifference.

As Nisargadatta Maharaj stated,"Childhood is a cheat".

Nisargadatta's own words do well in explaining:

When you will understand what this childhood is, then that is liberation. Paradoxically you will realize that you are already liberated... if you don't understand this consciousness itself then you are in bondage. You may do anything in the world but ulmately you are in shackles. The ... child consciousness has to know the consciousness. It has to know itself... Everything is contained within the knowledge that you are a child, and all that will finally go. So your whole identity will disappear, inclung even that child identity, eventually..."
"We are talking about the beginning of everything. It all began with childhood. Now that childhood is also a concept, and idea. So if you understand that, you transcend at once all concepts. That is why it is imperative to understand childhood. What is the function of childhood? Its function is for you to know that you exist. That is all it has done. Prior to that, you had no knowledge of the "I"-consciousness. My statement, and that of my guru, is that childhood is a 'cheat', it is false. The knowledge I am" is itself a cheat. When the beingness appears, that love for existence is the result of maya, the primary illusion. Once you come to know that you exist, you feel like enduring eternally. You always want to be, to exist, to survive. And so the struggle begins. All because of that maya."

My childhood was kindof a downer. I feel like I was basically just "there" (for reasons that I won't go into).

Originally Posted by pj

Life as an adult is far, far better.

That pretty much sums it up for me as well.. Life as an adult is far far better!

For all those who are struggling with "their childhood" (i.e., still at home), please know that things can get better.. you just have to hang in there.