<p>Like as you grow older you don't care about honor and principles as much and it's becoming increasingly okay to let little things slide?</p>
<p>When I was little I used to say whatever came to mind. It was almost impossible for me to lie. Now lies come easy. If someone asks me how my day went I'll say "wonderful" even if I've been a terrible mess of emotions. Or if someone asks me how I feel about something I'll give a brief answer and it actually takes effort to answer with how I really feel.</p>
<p>Not to mention I used to be horrified when big kids picked on little kids or people ran to me with their problems. Nowadays I accept war and abuse and mental illness as a fact of life and get on with things. It seems callous and jaded - but I guess that's how you survive, by not letting things bother you. Maybe if we didn't live in this world we wouldn't have to lose the naive idealism of youth.</p>
<p>I agree. Remember when you were little and when you just heard the word "butt" or "stupid" it was a HUGE no-no and you wouldn't even dare to speak them. Ahhh, nostalgia. Now you see people left and right swearing and flicking each other off and they don't even bleep out the words a$$ and b!tch on t.v. ...</p>
<p>I still don't use swear words, I find them to be very vulgar and makes one appear less educated. I love it when I find others who are like me, it's so refreshing. LIVE ABOVE THE INFLUENCE! Hahah.</p>
<p>"hate" used to be a bad word in first grade...so I'd use "dislike." and I thought I was mighty clever because "dislike" had seven whole letters in it.</p>
<p>I actually heard about a church service once where they asked a little boy to speak. He was the son of the pastor/leader/whatever. Someone had asked him to talk about what his parents were teaching him.
"Well, now we're not allowd to say the S word, or the B word any more." The audience got this Oh-My-Goodness look. His dad gets up afterwards.
"Just to clarify the s word is stupid and the b word is butt." </p>
<p>Yeah, but imagine a naive little ten-year-old trying to survive in the working world. Even if he or she had the intelligence to do so, the lying and cheating that occurs would probably scare him so much he'd never leave home again.
I think part of growing up is accepting certain realities, but also finding how the morals one learned as a kid can still fit in. For example, I totally agree with honorstudent that swearing a bunch sounds uneducated, so I save it for times when I'm alone (like when I'm driving and some moron cuts me off) or when I'm just hanging out with friends who don't care.<br>
Understanding war and abuse definitely takes more time. I doubt you "accept" it, but recognize that it's a reality in the world and it's not something one person can control.</p>
<p>im not. but i also am called childlike quite frequently. i was more of an adult when i was 10 than i am now. i just stopped giving a sh.it about anything and started living.</p>
<p>i heard that a friend of a friend had been arrested the other day(and that the school had not found out), and the first thought in my mind was "with an anonymous email from a public library, how much money could i extort this person for?"...i abandoned the idea a few seconds later, but still, you need to be wholly corrupted to even think that way.</p>
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<p>Hahahaha, you cleary didn't grow up in the sales office of a fortune 500 software company. By seven I was saying "Awww, the poor thing got RIF'd" to refer to the death of family pets, and by ten I knew more strategy than most reps ever learn.</p>
<p>...So yeah, I'm going to take over the world now. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!</p>
<p>nope... i stopped caring and started being my own little nerdy self a long, long time ago... no need for society..well, i do like to read vogue+ and pay attention to fashion, so i suppose...i still am a product of the pop culture society called america.</p>
<p>eh...i guess you could take the easy route and claim it's "inevitable," but you decide every moment of every day who you are and where your morals lie. society will only 'corrupt' you if you let it- don't be so passive, you have more control than you think!</p>
<p>you would enjoy rousseau, you two have the same train of thought it terms of society corrupting one's intrinsic moral being.</p>
<p>I don't think swearing has anything to do with being corrupt, nor do I think swearing is that big of a deal. I don't understand why people think swearing is "vulgar" or used by ignorant people. If there are strong feelings of good and strong feelings of bad, I don't see why trying to express the latter should be oppressed. Wordists. xP </p>
<p>Anyway, I feel like I've got a lot of integrity, and pretty strong as far as ethics go, but I swear when I'm angry.</p>