I like the idea that a personality doesn't really change much over time, but maybe just gets more refined and delineated. So your anxieties at 16 would probably be the same ones you feel at 50, more or less.
Completely contradicts the "common sense" theory that as you grow up, you start looking back at your past problems as trivial and your teen issues as laughable. Yes, maybe you didn't have to pay your rent and bills back then, but one way to look at is that "it's just a detail". In the big picture, you're still pretty much the same person with the same problems, insecurities, and worries.
When I finally got a career going, I was most disappointed by how high school cliques and rivalries never went away, they just got shifted into adult work places and seemed to get more aggressive and petty.
Working at a bigger construction firm, the competition and rivalry between people who weren't even competing for raises or promotions was just odd, especially from the women in the office, they all hated each other's guts like they were trying to steal each other's husbands or something.
enigmatoid on January 12nd, 2018 at 16:27 UTC »
I like the idea that a personality doesn't really change much over time, but maybe just gets more refined and delineated. So your anxieties at 16 would probably be the same ones you feel at 50, more or less.
Completely contradicts the "common sense" theory that as you grow up, you start looking back at your past problems as trivial and your teen issues as laughable. Yes, maybe you didn't have to pay your rent and bills back then, but one way to look at is that "it's just a detail". In the big picture, you're still pretty much the same person with the same problems, insecurities, and worries.
I don't know, just my two cents.
BorisTheButcher on January 12nd, 2018 at 17:55 UTC »
The Oh No guy is hands down my favorite comic
agha0013 on January 12nd, 2018 at 18:05 UTC »
When I finally got a career going, I was most disappointed by how high school cliques and rivalries never went away, they just got shifted into adult work places and seemed to get more aggressive and petty.
Working at a bigger construction firm, the competition and rivalry between people who weren't even competing for raises or promotions was just odd, especially from the women in the office, they all hated each other's guts like they were trying to steal each other's husbands or something.