Scott6433

What's the difference?

2granddaughters

Arrested development. I believe that when I started drinking I quit growing (probably before that).

I didn't have a particularly happy childhood but I did have a long one .....

All the best.

Bob R

paul99

I know I am in spiritual kindergarten...

tammy711

Why do you ask? If we are just children who are our parent(s)?

Weasel1966

There is wisdom in a childlike perspective.

There is nothing that can replace time as an educator.

I revel in my youthful thoughts and ponder deeply others.

Either way works.

Jeni26

Growing up is kind of fun, even if I did leave it til 48 to do it.

Being stuck as a child trying to lead a grown-up existence is very stressful.

bi11fish

Pretty Much--I know that when I drank and even now, sometimes it is "All About Me"--the attitude of a child. I have recovered from the drinking problem, now I have to continually work on my "Thinkin Problem" and that according to my sponsor is Advanced AA!!!

MidnightBlue

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Beyond

I believe we were children and within us we keep the child that once was. We come into this sordid world innocent & faced with circumstance the corruption begins. Some of us block out that distant part of our lives because the things we endured were too painful to understand or articulate. Children live in the moment and that is what we lost. The vulnerability of being an all knowing person who in the eyes of the world knows little. I always swore to myself I would not forget what it was like to be a child (almost as if you were invisible). We came here knowing everything we ever needed to know and if your spirit was exceptionally bright luminous someone along the way tried to break that spirit. Now here we are. A bunch of 27 year olds trying to understand why.

neferkamichael

I'm just beginning to enjoy my perpetual childhood.

2granddaughters

There is a difference between childish and childlike.

All the best.

Bob R

neferkamichael

Maybe you'd like to explain gramps. Tell me, was that a childish relpy or a chidlike reply?

TrixMixer

Are we still children??? HMMMMMM

I'll have to answer (a) YES on that one, at least when I was drinking--it wasn't pretty. Now living sober there is something very childlike about me, a wonderment of things I missed growing up. People love taking me places with them because it's like seeing something for the first time. That can be very endearing------also more likely CREEPY.

When a child has a traumatic childhood, sometimes you have to Grow Up pretty fast. Not that you don't have plenty of friends your own age, but for me anyway, I always seem to be the caretaker of the group... the one who seemed to rein everyone in. That was because I had no father from the age of six and I was cautious about everything.

So maybe I was the 45 year old when I was sober, and the 6 year old when I was drunk---I know I sure acted as selfish as a child could be , never looking at the big picture just the TOY I wanted at the moment.

I liked that question---I wonder if others feel they grew up to fast and drinking was our way of releasing the selfish child in us?? LOL! it would sure make us a little more sympathetic characters, then again maybe more pathetric.

DoubleBarrel

Im not. I've been through way too much.
I have children, and I wish for them never to see the world through my eyes.
Its real obvious what the difference is when I see them play and laugh.
But thats life.

Sally1009

I feel very much that I am still a child, and that I stopped maturing once I started drinking. Thus I feel like someone in their late thirties rather than someone in their mid-fifties.
I also think we can be a bit like children in that we can't cope with the word 'no'. And we have to learn how to parent ourselves.

RobbyRobot

I think Bob's was an awesome reply - neither childish or childlike.

More like a reply given with confidence of plenty of experience. I in turn, can speak from my experience that Bob's reply rings true and sure.

TrixMixer

Ya know Double Barrel, I wouldn't expect any other answer than that from someone with your Avi......

It scares the H--- outta me and I'm good with whatever you say. I usually abbreviate the Avitar name --like DB, but for you it is MR. Double Barrel, nope not going to dis you, LOL!

WindOfChange

I hope so...

neferkamichael

I think you fellows worshiping billy and bobby should move on.

RobbyRobot

Hmmm.