DAE miss being a kid? I mean to the point where it causes depression

I’m 30 years old and it’s like everything is hitting me at once

- I miss my grandparents, I only have one left and dementia has turned her into a shell of her former self.

- I miss going over to my grandparents house.

- I miss when my parents were much younger.

- I miss elementary school

- I miss middle school

- I miss high school

- I miss my childlike innocence

- I miss my childhood pets

- I miss playing outside as a kid

- I miss when my parents could make any of my worries go away

- I miss being tucked in at night

- I miss being told bedtime stories

- I miss watching cartoons before school

- I miss my only worry being homework or what I was going to do with my friends the next day

- I miss when the world wasn’t so connected and dependent on clicks and content

- I miss when physical third places to hang out actually still existed.

- I miss the overall more positive attitude of society

- I miss when I didn’t have existential dread

- I miss when I wasn’t negative all the time

- I miss swinging on swings at the par

- I miss when things weren’t so partisan and when we weren’t all at each others throats

- I miss having optimism for the future

- I miss when I didn’t have health issues

- I miss my childhood

- I miss when my old neighborhood had kids playing. Now nobody goes outside

- I miss……. ME

Posted Sep 1, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

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