#FreedomStruggles #AdultingTruths #KidsVsAdults
Do you ever find yourself lost in random thoughts, pondering the age-old question of who really has more freedom in life? Kids often look at adults and envy the apparent freedom they seem to have, while adults look at kids and wish they could go back to the carefree days of youth. It’s a never-ending cycle of the grass always being greener on the other side.
🤔 As an adult, you may find yourself reminiscing about the days when all you had to worry about was getting good grades in school or what game to play next with your friends. The responsibilities of bills, work, and social expectations can weigh heavily on your mind, making you wonder if you truly have the freedom you once thought you would as a grown-up.
👦 On the other hand, kids view adults as having all the freedom in the world – they can stay up late, drive cars, and make their own decisions without having to ask for permission. However, kids don’t always realize the pressure and stress that come with being an adult, including the constant juggling of responsibilities and expectations from society.
The Reality of Adulting
As an adult, you may have the freedom to make your own choices, but with that freedom comes a whole host of responsibilities. From paying bills and maintaining a job to taking care of your health and relationships, adulting is no walk in the park. The pressures of needing to succeed and provide for yourself and your family can often make you long for the carefree days of childhood.
Kids Just Wanna Have Fun
From a kid’s perspective, adults have it all – the ability to drive wherever they want, buy whatever they please, and stay out as late as they like. But what kids don’t see are the sacrifices adults have made to get to where they are. The hard work, dedication, and perseverance it takes to build a life and career often go unnoticed by children who just want to have fun and be carefree.
🌟 So, who really has more freedom – kids or adults? The truth is, both have their own unique set of challenges and responsibilities. While adults may have more autonomy in their decision-making, they also carry the weight of expectations and obligations. Kids, on the other hand, may lack the freedom to make certain choices but have the luxury of innocence and imagination.
In the end, it’s important to remember that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Each stage of life comes with its own set of joys and struggles, and it’s up to us to make the most of the freedom we have, no matter our age. So, next time you find yourself pondering who has it better – kids or adults – remember that true freedom comes from finding contentment and happiness in the present moment.
Kidless adults have all of the freedom.
I had no freedom as a kid. I couldn’t do anything without permission, which I wasn’t gonna get. Now I can do whatever I want as long as I embrace the consequences. Being an adult is great.
I have way more freedom as an adult. Still not enough, though.
Adults trade their freedom for having kids. What a scam.
plot twist: both are correct
But the only people with actual freedom are the billionaires.
No. I prefer my adulthood, and know that there was zero freedom when I was a child. I have 10x more freedom now.
Any reasonable adult doesn’t actually believe that children have more freedom, they just wish they could avoid the responsibility associated
And the billionaires laugh and laugh.
Nah. I’m an adult and would never be a kid again. They very clearly have way less freedom than adults.
To be “free” you need to have a surplus of money/means and few responsibilities. Kids have too little of the former and adults have too much of the latter. Neither is “free”
it’s a state of mind mate
It’s adults. Adults have the freedom. Source: I’m an adult, can do whatever I want. Was kid, literally couldn’t.
When you are a kid, you think that, like, beer and coffee are “grown up” drinks.
Then, you grow up and realize that the real adult thing to drink is water.
In the long run, being an adult outweighs being a kid.
Freedom to do things vs freedom from responsibility
Nah I’m 13 and I want to be 6 because of the immeasurable crushing pressure on me from being surrounded by hatred from my classmates as well as stressing out over grades and wanting to harm myself while my sister is cutting herself, my girlfriend has abusive parents, I have no friends, my mom is trying to shove Catholicism down my throat, procrastinating all my work, as well as teen hormones and severe depression and anxiety, so I genuinely just want to be a little kid again and to not have to go through all this fucking bullshit in my life right now.
this is why being 16 is the best
It’s because freedom requires both money and time.
Kids have all the time in the world but no money to do the things they want. Adults spend all their time earning money and don’t get to do the things they really want.
Adults have far more freedom than kids, and anyone who has grown up and says otherwise are kidding themselves.
Humans are unfortunately not born free due to the fact that each generation has the responsibility to spoonfeed the next and previous ones.
Beacuse neither one of them have very much of it?
They have different freedoms. As the saying goes, “The grass is always greener on the other side.”
Lmao that’s only true in Disney movies homie. IDK anybody who thinks it was better being a kid lol, maybe being a dcom kid with like no classes and unlimited money and infinite transportation. But real life kid? Nah not for me thanks
You know the Latin word for “children” is *līberī*, which means something like “the ones who are free.”
Even the Ancient Romans seemed to believe that children had more freedom than adults in their society. It goes to show that some of our modern attitudes about the world today can stretch back to thousands of years ago as well, when the world was completely different.
“Adults create the world children live in” – Minstry So What
I don’t think kids have freedom. It’s much better to be an adult.
Kids are idiots though and it should carry the death penalty to be under the age of 5.
Not when you’ve had abusive upbringing. Adulthood is better than you could have imagined.
Time + Money = freedom. Kids have time, adults have money
I don’t think I had more freedom as a kid. I can technically do whatever the fuck I want right now and no one beyond like law enforcement can stop me.
You just have other responsibilities and desires that require you to not do whatever the fuck you want whenever the fuck you want.
Child me would definitely be wowed by my ability to buy whatever game I want, not go to work for a day, and just sit on my couch and play.
Adults are correct-er.
No one has any freedom except that which you carve out for yourself.
“Wow, look way over there… that grass sure looks green, huh?”
..and the reality is that no-one is free. Freedom is an illusion.
Not true. I’m an adult and know that nobody has freedom.
i have freedom now as an adult, i did not have any as a kid or a teen. being stuck in an abusive house just meant that i wanted to grow up as fast as i could, and i don’t wish i was that age ever again. even in a theoretical universe where my childhood was good, being a kid and having everyone telling you what to do is annoying