Anyone "growing out" of things they used to love?

[Ringoooooo]

Like not watching or listening to anime/music you used to enjoy because it seems to "childish" for you now? It's a bit depressing leaving childhood behind. First happened to me when I was watching a persona 3 playthrough. "I'm getting to old for this" I kept thinking.

 

[ArtsyDrawer]

PewDiePie.
He used to make me laugh so hard it legitimately hurt. The screaming, the "HELvette!"
Now I look back at those episodes, the ones before all that racist shit he got into and... "That's funny? That's comedy?"
Same for the =3 show (?).
Same for anime. All of it. Just... it's tiring now.
It's probably the pills talking, though. I hope they agree that I'm a fitting specimen, carve that shit out of my brain, and then maybe the passion returns.

 

[TheSuicidalEccentric]

I used to make Minecraft Hacked Clients for most of my life. Waste of time but taught me programming (I became a master with Java and very good at computers), and kept me occupied to help with depression and shit. It was an escape from reality. Now that my life is completely fucked, I stopped doing that and need to run into the wild with one or more persons or die

 

[Broken Chimera]

I used to be a gamer. I'll do it if I'm bored, but I really don't care about it anymore.

 

[BabyYoda]

I used to scream over my favorite fandoms. There were a bunch of shitty "fanfics" and "comics" I made back in Junior High, and every time I look back at that time I realized that I was much happier before than now. Shouldn't have outgrown it because it would surely be a good coping mechanism.

 

[NotMeant2B]

I used to be really passionate about drawing as a child. I filled dozens and dozens of notebooks with drawings. My father wasn't really impressed about it, but it was such a cheap hobby and it managed to keep me distracted, so he gladly "supported" that interest of mine.
It helped me to gain some friends in middle school, so my interest grew a little more, but I think it caused my notes to drop so I stopped getting support, and even more so then that I was not a child anymore.
My family wanted me to grow up so quick, to be responsible, dependable, courteous, self-sufficient... and they kind of accomplished it, but I think it broke me. I had to learn how to do everything by myself without ever complaining, asking for help only when utterly necessary, hiding my emotions and whatever could be seen as weakness. I learned to be there and work for others but never for myself.
I'm now about to start a PhD program, and I feel so empty, even my family isn't really impressed, they just like the status that comes with it, but they don't understand what I do or even care for that matter. I do like what I'm studying, but I feel so love-starved, out of touch with people my age, like there's no place I really fit in.
I genuinely think that I deserve the reality I live in, that I don't deserve sympathy of any kind, and that I shouldn't even be typing this; I'm just looking for attention without having ever contributed something before, and I know I won't even reciprocate because I didn't learn how to be kind and warm with the people around me. So there, I should be dead because I might be useful, but I am not wanted.
And about my hobby... I stopped drawing for years, but I like to sketch some things every once in a while... I even bought a digital drawing tablet, but I don't feel that passion I used to have, it feels mechanical. I don't really care anymore about anything.

 

[Thereisnothing]

Been a long time since left my childhood age.............interests/hobbies/life etc changes....................some things stay, others go..............

 

[netrezven]

I have no idea why, but i don't miss my childhood at all. I don't miss even my teen time, no matter the fact that it should have looked prety well and exciting. There are some thing i think i would do again if the oportunity presents, but ...

 

[TAW122]

Pokemon anime shows from childhood. When I was a kid, I used to be entertained by them. However, when I grew older, it seemed really cheesy and the English dub certainly didn't help at all. Also, as someone who played the pokemon games (Generation I until V), after seeing the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the anime vs the video game, I further distanced myself from the franchise, except for the games themselves because they were fun to play.

 

[Mr2005]

Like not watching or listening to anime/music you used to enjoy because it seems to "childish" for you now? It's a bit depressing leaving childhood behind. First happened to me when I was watching a persona 3 playthrough. "I'm getting to old for this" I kept thinking.

Fuck that if you still like it you still like it. Isn't part of growing up not caring what others think? Provided you're not doing any harm then it's their problem.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Gardening, working on the car, reading, gaming, painting, archaeology, drinking beer, driving round the back roads, sleeping.
All gone.
Now all I have left is bunnies.

 

[Largeletters]

Like not watching or listening to anime/music you used to enjoy because it seems to "childish" for you now? It's a bit depressing leaving childhood behind. First happened to me when I was watching a persona 3 playthrough. "I'm getting to old for this" I kept thinking.

Definitely.

 

[BPD Barbie]

Yeah, quite a few things. Pokemon Go, Pokemon series in general actually, I still watch Anime but it's not as hardcore as it used to be. Reading, photography, graphic design. I kinda gave up on a lot lol, not sure how much is because I grew out of it and how much is depression.

 

[Jean4]

I was asked what do I like to do. Honestly, I can't remember.

 

[faraway_beach]

Since my second concussion, I've stopped enjoying all my former hobbies. But even before that, my tastes were changing -- I got tired of stories where terrible things happen, or with "heroes" who kill. I stopped thinking violence was cool.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Anyone "growing out" of things they used to love?


Yea Life......

 

[Isittimetogonola]

Everything

 

[Lethe]

I don't grow out of things in the sense that I think they're "childish". I think the concept of "childishness" is childish in itself. There are definitely things I don't enjoy as much as I used to, though.

 

[RottenDeer]

I don't grow out of it because it seems childish for me. Literally nothing I once enjoyed makes me feel passionate anymore,

 

[departing]

I've literally given up everything. I have no hobbies nor interests. SS is one of the few things that I do with regularity.

 

[ephemerality_25]

Talking to him...

 

[the box is empty]

"iT's cALLeD mAtuRinG!"

Seriously, yeah it's not even typical boredom. It's just listlessness in general.

 

[Myforevercharlie]

As a kid i loved rollerskating, singing, making up my own little world.. All gone. Even drawing and painting are loosing their glamour to me

 

[Despondent]

I used to be REALLY passionate about my schooling. I was a total school nerd hehe

Each "good'' mark that I'd get would be like a rush for me. That's what kept me going. It's a shame that I've lost interest in doing it anymore. It was actually something good to have interest in haha

 

[BitterlyAlive]

I'm not trying to sound negative, but I don't feel like I ever "loved" anything...it's all just a distraction. Some things were less painful than others. I played Pokemon to raise monsters, I played Animal Crossing for the aesthetic and the animals. I drew occasionally to get out of my head. That's...that's it. :/

All of these things are just too tedious now. I feel like my brain is rotting. I try to do these things and I can only do it for 10 minutes tops. My brain is too foggy, I'm painfully bored.

 

[Fizzel87]

I used to be massive interested in games and their development. Don't really give a fuck now though.

 

[WhisperingCave]

I used to really love writing and want to be an author when I grew up. Now... yeah

 

[Insomniac]

Like not watching or listening to anime/music you used to enjoy because it seems to "childish" for you now? It's a bit depressing leaving childhood behind. First happened to me when I was watching a persona 3 playthrough. "I'm getting to old for this" I kept thinking.

I had a period where I felt that way. It lasted 3-4 years. Then I fel back into deeper darker depression and sometimes feel the need to bingewatch rematch some of my favorite animes. It's usually things I already seen as a child or teen, I have zero motivation to watch anything new, however.

It's like with youtube. I'm bored when I'm on youtube now but sometimes will rematch old stuff from people I liked.

 

[netrezven]

i don't feel like growned up. It's more like got into the trap of ordinary stupid living. And going out of there means i should like betray my family. Combined with stupid restrictions and my mood to do things, hell i'm going into a complete single cell orgranism. If i were back in those days i had no such responsibilities i would have ...actually i would have started a war. But no man in history ever won a war having little kids around, so i should play hide and seek for more than a decade i guess.

 

[DontGiveAshiit]

ye well, not really "growing out of", but I used to have lots of interests, hobbies, motivation to explore and do stuff. And now, . like my nick says basically, I dont give a shit about anything....