Things you view differently now you're older...

[Hosker]

I analyse things a lot more.

 

[wooty]

Things I view differently......Girls. Thats the main one

But I guess things like politics, racism and homophobia are things I (thankfully) view differently now. Went through a phase in highschool where anything that was silly to me was "gay" or stupid people are "n***ers". Never again shall I be a 13 year old ignorant prick.

You called stupid people "n***ers"? Interesting. I always assumed that for some reason, people are okay with calling silly stuff "gay" but never using the word "n***er" for anything other than black people.
Not that I ever used any of the words. Gay friends and relatives, black friends and relatives.

Thats why it seems so stupid to me now, even calling white people it possibly through lack of being more creative with insults. Either that or I was just rolling with the crowd, as it seemed to be the buzz word at the time.

 

[Boneasse]

I'm surprised no one has said this yet. Sex, obviously. When you're a kid it's disgusting and a 'show me yours I'll show you mine' kind of thing. And when you get older it's absolutely wonderful, and one of the things that define two people being as one, or something along those lines.

So, in short. Sex is different now that I'm older.

 

[Mcupobob]

Not much, I try not be so much of an asshole now and vaule people a lot more than I used to.

 

[Queen Michael]

When I was in second grade, I thought that BeetleBorgs, this Power Rangers clone, was AAAAWESOMMME! I watched it for nostalgia's sake a few months ago, and the awful "kid's show" jokes made me want to stab myself in the face.

What kind of jokes, exactly?

 

[Umwerfer]

When I was in primary school kids my age told me I spoke weird like a grown up. Now, I'm told I talk like an old man. So, relatively speaking, nothings actually changed.

 

[SimuLord]

I used to think that the Great Big Things? like politics and celebrities and other stuff you see on TV actually mattered. That it actually mattered who I voted for, what I listened to, what I bought, and how I displayed myself.

Nowadays? I don't waste my time on politics, I sold my TV, and all that matters to me is doing the things I have to do to make my world more attractive to the people I want to have in it as the next stage of my life approaches.

Oh, and a few heartbreaks and a failed marriage taught me more than I ever wanted to know about relationships. Probably a good thing from the point of view of the future mother of my children, wherever she may be.

 

[duchaked]

oh man, a heck of a lot of things

but everything pales in comparison with the stuff you learn in a relationship (going well or gone awry) about people and about yourself

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I used to think school was horrible, useless and not required to live the life I wanted. I also would have been quite happy had someone told me my future was living in someone's basement and playing video games for money.

Now I consider education very important and I think playing games for eternity for a low wage is horrifying.

Age changes perspectives.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, most recently, my own house.

This ones been bugging me. Ever since I moved into my dorm and started living on campus, I've (obviously) started to become more and more familiar with my surroundings. And, since my mom started rearranging things in my (and my siblings) rooms, I recognize my house less and less. Every time I go home for a weekend or something, I feel less and less like I'm really coming home, and more like I'm a guest there. I've even started to refer to my dorm as "home" without thinking. It's a weird feeling.

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

Well, now everything ain't suger coats and rainbows. I see that everything's in the shitter, People are ignorent, I'm no longer religious, I want to be a phsyciatrist instead of a video games tester and I... Like girls more?
To be honest, in a few years my thoughts would of changed. I'm only 14.

 

[gostchiken]

The way my mum drives, I used to trust her implicitly to get me from A to B when I was younger. Once I got my liscence and started driving myself however, I lost count of how many times we've almost died whenever she gives me a ride.

 

[Travis Higuet]

Primarily politics. As I grew up, and struck out on my own, got my own wife, and my own kids, my own car payment, and my own mortgage, I realized that nobody was responsible for my wellbeing but me. I realized that if I could achieve a regular life, with a car, a house, a family, that anybody else who wanted it could too. It made me rethink those around me who perpetually fail. I know that I'm nothing special, so if I can succeed with hard work and personal responsibility, then so can anybody else. With this understanding came a growing resentment of anybody who thinks that what I have bled and sweat for is at least partly owed to them simply because I have it, and they think they need it. In fact, over time that resentment has become an outright hatred. It could have stayed at simple disgust, but as our esteemed representatives in government keep telling me that I'm not doing enough, and that more and more and more is required of me in order to bring up the people around me at my expense, my disgust for those people increases. They could have done what I have done, in fact they still can.

Basically I have realized over time, that everybody is where they choose to be. Not saying that everybody is happy with the choices they make of course. Sure, everybody would love to live in a 3500 square foot house and have a corvette out front, but the fact that they don't is nobody's fault but their own. Every choice that put you where you are, was made by you, so if you don't like your situation, then change it. Just don't be a dirtbag and demand that the government change your situation for you with somebody else's hard earned money. That makes you a parasite.

 

[illas]

I maintain that one's response to snow is a measure of maturity:
As a child I would see snow and think "oooh! fun!".
Now I see it and think "eurgh, transport problems".

 

[Hiphophippo]

Now that I'm older? Maybe not all that much, really. Now that I have a kid?

Fucking everything.

 

[Eolon]

Cartoon are different. And when I but more kid oriented shows.When was smaller cartoons had animals that smoke, blew each other, etc. and now they just don't feel the same.

 

[Queen Michael]

When I was in second grade, I thought that BeetleBorgs, this Power Rangers clone, was AAAAWESOMMME! I watched it for nostalgia's sake a few months ago, and the awful "kid's show" jokes made me want to stab myself in the face.

What kind of jokes, exactly?

It's hard to describe. Here's a vid, if you're that curious and masochistic:

Spoiler: Episode 1

It's the kind of poorly written, poorly acted jokes that only a toddler would find funny, but are painful for anyone else to watch. I didn't even remember it as having so much "comedy" before watching it again. Maybe I repressed it...

For example, in this first episode, the protagonists meet this supposedly funny ghost in a haunted mansion. He appears to be some sort of mix between Jay Leno, Richard Nixon, and the genie from Aladdin, and is played by a terribly un-funny actor who thinks he's Jim Carrey). This sudden appearance of a ghost makes one kid faint, with wacky sound effects and acting. When his friends try to revive him, he does the whole "Just five more minutes, Mom" routine.

Actually, I guess my biggest problem with the show now is that I remembered it as being mostly action, with scenes in that haunted mansion as comic relief, but it's actually a bigger part of the show, and there are way too many stupid scenes of these kids goofing around with the monsters that live in the mansion.

That was... not very funny, like you said.
Not something I'll be watching again.

 

[sageoftruth]

Well, I certianly view lots of movies differently. Thanks Nostalgia Critic.