<p>That as you grow older you stop caring about things? And everything becomes habit. I mean you no longer wander about the world curiously, you just take it as it is? I mean is that sad or what?</p>
<p>Look around you, there are some really cool things, and as we grow older all we care about is school and friends, instead of how awesome some things are, and amazing. Pretty much we stop thinking with wonder, and take everything for granted... and it is lame.</p>
<p>I do take some things for granted until I see another bad circumstance. I do care about school and friends but at times I love that me and my dad make jokes and my mom taking them wayy too seriously, sometimes she even joins in. Sometimes they’re dirty jokes too, but I like my dad just the way he is. I have stopped caring about a lot of things.</p>
<p>I have stopped caring about a few things, but overall I still in awe of a lot of things. I had a near-death experience so I think that has forced me to not take a lot of things for granted. Additionally, I have an insatiable appetite for anything paranormal, mysterious, or unexplained. Maybe this is why I haven’t really lost my curiosity or whatever.</p>
<p>^ =) That’s good. Hmm… Idk I was just thinking. I guess. </p>
<p>Me and my mom were driving down the street and I said “Isn’t it weird, how there are these giant sticks sticking out of the ground, and the have wires stringing them together.” (Telephone wires and such). But I mean, isn’t it? Like imagine if we were not born with them, then suddenly there were these giant sticks in the ground, wouldn’t that be weird? I appreciate electricity and such, though. But… idk… like how many people are staring at this thread over the internet? Have you ever wondered about how weird the internet is, cool… amazing. Anyway…</p>
<p>How many times a day in your busy, school oriented lifes do you look around you and wonder why 2+2=4, and why dogs bark, and wonder how amazing life is?</p>
<p>i wanna know how the internet works without getting too nerdy… like the picture here
[Internet</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet]Internet”>Internet - Wikipedia)
what the hell it’s actually like a web</p>
<p>Perhaps a mark of maturity is when one looks beyond materialism and begins to understand that people are far more important, that blessing them is one of the primary reasons of being planted on earth.</p>
<p>I used to care about tying shoelaces and how stuff works. The fact that you grow older means that certain things will escape your notice gradually because they seem trivial or less important. If my shoelaces gets untied I just tie them and get on with what I was doing before I was interrupted. Why? Because the thought of my laces being tied correctly is not as significant as getting to my next destination.</p>
<p>hmm yeah i used to care about alot of things until quite recently. in fact at this point in my life i stopped caring not only about life’s aspects but some people as well. i’ve come to a mature and conclusive decision that sometimes you just gotta accept life the way it is- even if that means to stop caring about things you used to love.</p>
<p>ditto at #5! =D</p>
<p>it bothers me a lot actually. recently ive tried becoming less up tight, ie. stopping to examine a dandelion even while ignoring the fact its raining cats and dogs, not caring that my feet will be all muddy when i get home 
i have a 4 year old to imitate. i will never stop cherishing the things that little kids do.</p>
<p>Well, yes. I mean I basically spent like 3 years bemoaning my loss of innocence and how I no longer took wonder in the world. But lately, ( this spring it started) , after I found myself glooming I decided to try harder. To examine the ribbons flowing in the wind and become involved in everything I can- just because. So…</p>
<p>My curiosity has vanished a bit. When I was little, I would always break apart the little Happy Meal toys (the ones that actually did something) to see how the worked, or I’d take apart one of my own toys to figure out what was going on inside.</p>
<p>But I’m majoring in Mechanical Engineering, so maybe my curiosity for how things worked hasn’t completely disappeared.</p>
<p>We’re high schoolers. I think it’s a bit early to start bemoaning our aging. We’re young. Sometimes I do look at my niece and thing “My gosh, I’m so old!” But really, if I’m going to start feeling old at 17, how will I feel at 46?</p>
<p>Hmm… has anyone noticed how the world is so driven by money? I mean I understand some practical uses of it, but by the time you’re forty all that you care about is getting your paycheck and making it to the next one. Hmm… imagine all that we could do if having a job simply for money no longer was a problem, I think for one people would enjoy their jobs more AND we would have more time to look at stars and think over complex math problems. I mean I know it will never happen, and maybe their are more negatives now that are society has been driven by it since aorun 1200 BC… but I think it would let people slow down more and ENJOY LIFE! What a concept</p>
<p>Several years ago I did tell my mom that the world should rid itslef of a currency system and people should just work/get things for free. AS a CPA, she kindly (somewhat bewilderingly) said, “Then people couldn’t pay for everything because everybody wants money.”</p>
<p>My point exactly. ;)</p>
<p>This is why I plan to travel when I’m a retired gentleman. :)</p>
<p>I share that dream as well! :)</p>
<p>PS: Don’t forget the grandchildren!</p>
<p>Psh screw paying for things, if there was no money, there would be no need to give nor receive it. Boo at currency. I still think that it would be a lot more peaceful. Also I think it is totally ridiculous how our society is set up (most countries) in clear social classes, and if you’re at the top of the money food-chain, you believe everyone below you is scum. I mean people cannot afford health care and such because they don’t have the money… it is SAD when we have the technology to help others, but refuse to, because we would not get any money from doing that.</p>
<p>Wow, you sure that you are a good kid on the inside, you seem ticked! JK, yeah, I wish that it would work out that way, but I don’t think that we will ever see anything like that in our lifetime because people want to brag about how affluent they are, they’re material things. Most people are materialistic, and we cannot change them.</p>
<p>Yes, but we can teach people to use the proper form of “there”… jk. Anyway I am mostly being cynical. And honestly, I really really want to let everyone see how cool some things are. I feel like if we are strapped down by the binding ropes of money, then we will be unable to fee the freeness of not being a slave to a endless cycle of currency. Or so to speak. Anyway… umm… I am a good kid. I am quite happy. I kinda want to do do something major right now. Like save a starving child in Africa. Or remember how amazing rain was as a kid, and how curious it was to find that rain was not the birth of worms, they just like the water (lol). I am in a strange, perpetually strange mood… (latelty)</p>
<p>I always have interest in the world as a whole.</p>