If you dislike someone you last saw as a kid/teenager, they may dislike that version of themselves too.

It means that I'm not as emotionally stable as I used to be. It means I'm not as responsible as I should be for my age.

It also means I have less life-experience than someone half-my-age should. I'm 22, but I've never driven. I still don't know how to properly tie my shoes. I never stayed the night with a friend. I crossed the street alone for the first time when I was 19. I don't know how to interpret and process complex emotions because I've never had to before.

The list goes on; so much experience and knowledge that 12 year olds have, but I don't. And now I'm too scared to go out and live because everything and everyone is going to expect me to have an adult's amount of knowledge and experience, but I barely have a pre-teen's.

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