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A post I made on tumblr I was pretty happy with, so, a crosspost!
I feel like there’s a fundamental misrepresentation and misunderstanding of how changing interests work.
A lot of adults do ‘grow out of’ the interests they had in their youth. But it’s not like they suddenly lose the joy they took in that interest with nothing to replace it, nor is it (usually) a deliberate choice to Leave Behind Childish Things even though they still bring joy.
It’s just that interests tend to naturally change as you get older, and some interests are on average more appealing to younger people, so most young people into them will eventually start getting into something else. And if someone happens not to lose a particular interest as they grow older then…that’s fine, and not bad or immature or creepy. It’s just how things happened to go.
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I feel like there’s a fundamental misrepresentation and misunderstanding of how changing interests work.
A lot of adults do ‘grow out of’ the interests they had in their youth. But it’s not like they suddenly lose the joy they took in that interest with nothing to replace it, nor is it (usually) a deliberate choice to Leave Behind Childish Things even though they still bring joy.
It’s just that interests tend to naturally change as you get older, and some interests are on average more appealing to younger people, so most young people into them will eventually start getting into something else. And if someone happens not to lose a particular interest as they grow older then…that’s fine, and not bad or immature or creepy. It’s just how things happened to go.
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