Things you're surprised you care about as an adult

[Hero of Lime]

My overall health. I'm probably the healthiest I've been in my entire life, but concerns about getting sick with either minor or major illnesses bother me a lot more than they used to. There were some upsides to being sick as a kid, as an adult you just don't want to deal with all the trouble.

 

[Angelblaze]

I'm 17, and I'm not so sure I qualify as an adult yet but I'm surprised I care so much about world politics now - maybe because its like seeing Game of Thrones happen in real life (Spoiler Alert, Kim Jong Un is Kim Jong Gone.) but looking at the news now a days its like seeing everything I read about the American Revolution/American freedom has gone topsy-turvy.

North Korea is opening up for talks and advancing to freedom at a breakneck pace, China/Japan are holding mass long scale internationally known peaceful protests for freedom.

Meanwhile, America is devolving into a police state with Ferguson and Civil Forfeiture, Australia recently passed laws to legally holding its citizens for undetermined amounts of time without the need for proof or preexisting evidence of a crime, and Britain/England is still cameras, everywhere, all the time.

The world's gone mad - except mad is just it re-arranging the furniture in the room, freedom to the east, police states and enslaved populations to the west.

 

[LadyMint]

Business, certainly. As a youngster I told myself I could never see myself working in some boring office atmosphere. Several years into the workforce, I've held several "boring office jobs" and found they're not quite as boring as TV would portray them to be, depending on the company you work for. In fact, I've come to enjoy professional atmospheres and the overall concept of maintaining a business. Go figure.

 

[Jux]

The quality of socks,
I used to be distraught at getting socks for Christmas, now I'm at a stage where I appreciate good socks...

I'll second this. There is one brand/style of socks that make my workboots bearable, everything else is either too thin, too thick, too short or not breathable enough and retains sweat. Gold toe crew socks, freaking love them.

 

[Artina89]

I thought I would have stopped caring about Pokemon when I hit my 20's, but I find myself enjoying it more than I ever did as a child, especially the older games and their remakes (even though I wasn't too enamoured of Pokemon X and Pokemon Y) and I am really looking forward to when Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on the 28th November, when I will be buying both.

 

[Nukekitten]

History, art and certain forms of music. When I was little my parents used to take me around old excavation sites, art museums, opera... and it was so BORING. Oh it's a painting hanging on the wall. Oh, it's a lump of rock with other lumps of rock. Oh, it's some fat guy bellowing in a hall. There wasn't any explanation of anything, you were just supposed to stare at it and magically absorb culture I suppose. I couldn't even hear distinguishable words in opera, it was just this uncomfortably big sound.

But when I was an adult I read a few history book of my own free will and found that the books weren't boring, and I learned some stuff about the theory of art and music, and that wasn't boring either. And suddenly those sorts of things were interesting because I could guess at the minds that might be behind them and interpret what they meant to me. And hey, it was an entire language (a fuzzy, general, oft-abused language, but language all the same) of feelings.

I'd never have guessed that as little seven year old me stuck reading in the middle of an art exhibition, waiting for my parents to finish so we could leave.

 

[MysticSlayer]

The news. I never really understood why my parents enjoyed watching it so much. Then I started watching some news around the time I was seventeen, and suddenly I ended up developing an interest. Now I can barely go anywhere without pulling up a news app on my phone to pass the time.

Oh, and hockey. Growing up in Florida, I never thought I'd develop an interest in the sport, considering it really wasn't a huge thing in the area of Florida I grew up in. Even when I was in Michigan, I only followed the sport a little bit (basically enough to have a favorite team). Now, though, hockey has become the primary sport I follow. Even more odd was that it wasn't while I was still in Michigan that it happened. It was actually when I came back down to Florida and finally found a group of friends that were all hockey fans.

 

[Spudgun Man]

Phil Collins