opinions / morals that have changed...

[velvet]

... as you've gotten older.

everyone holds ridiculous, strong opinions about things whilst younger. we all look back on things we've said as young teens and cringe.

what strong opinions / morals did you hold whilst younger, and why did they change?

[FlyingJesus]

When I was like 12 I was a communist because it sounded cool but then I learned what it actually meant and thought it was rubbish

More recently I held what I thought to be feminist views but again it was learning about the reality of the situation that made me realise just how awful the movement and the majority of those within it are, so now I go with reality and logic and stats rather than buzzwords and dogma

Basically just always trying to learn more :P

[karter]

idk i used to tell people that there are people dying of hunger and disease in africa so they should be happy that they are not in their position like literally... that used to be my advice for everything

anyways i learnt that by saying this nor does the person feel better nor do the kids in africa so yep lol

[MKR&*42]

Idrk I changed a fair bit so I don't really have any similar morals. Although I can't remember any of my old ones.... I'll just go with Tom's communist thing cause I was like that briefly when i was 13 or so.

[Shar]

I think my opinions of certain people has changed as I got older and that's made the way I view things change.
Marriage - I don't believe in happily ever after. I can't believe I ever did.
Love. I don't believe in it anymore.

[buttons]

uh i was anti smoking and anti drugs, still am about heroin injecting etc id drop someone like that from my life in a heartbeat but im much more open minded about them now after seeing that good decent people smoke and do drugs and its not a big deal. pretty much just accepting about anything others wanna do tbh

[Inseriousity.]

I think my opinions of certain people has changed as I got older and that's made the way I view things change.
Marriage - I don't believe in happily ever after. I can't believe I ever did.
Love. I don't believe in it anymore.

aww shar that sounds so sad although don't think anyone truly believes in them til they've got them.

My morals have largely stayed the same. My attitude though used to be much different, I used to be really selfish but I grew out of it.

[buttons]

I think my opinions of certain people has changed as I got older and that's made the way I view things change.
Marriage - I don't believe in happily ever after. I can't believe I ever did.
Love. I don't believe in it anymore.
yh i agree with mike just cause others haven't had happily ever afters doesn't mean you can't & most people will have to go through heartbreak at some point and pick themselves back up. i didnt believe in it for so long cause of bad experiences but i do now

[velvet]

I think my opinions of certain people has changed as I got older and that's made the way I view things change.
Marriage - I don't believe in happily ever after. I can't believe I ever did.
Love. I don't believe in it anymore.

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww i just wanna cuddle ya n tell you it'll all be okay, cry

[Shar]

Thanks guys. I'll probably have a different opinion in 10 years time, or not. I guess I shouldn't say I don't believe in it just because it hasn't happened to me, if I had that attitude for everything that would be depressing

I think I'm the same as you Mike, my morals are the same more or less but my attitude has also changed.

[dbgtz]

I used to be a bit of an environmentalist... lol how things changed.

[JACKTARD]

I guess I was a bit homophobic when I was younger because my dad is but as I got older I started to get my own opinions so I'm not any more. I have different political views to my parents too.

[-:Undertaker:-]

As time has gone on i've become more libertarian but at the same time more socially conservative.

One issue i've been reminded of is global warming, I was very much into natural disasters/end of the world movies and history when I was younger, so swallowed the global warming myth pretty easily. But I was a kid more or less then, so I don't really count it as part of 'me' if you get me. :P

[Zelda]

I think the main thing is how I used to be a lot more caring when I was younger, but a lack of anyone caring about me has just made me become very heartless at times now.

My attitude towards life has also changed vastly as I got older, used to look forward to it immensely and was scared to die and thought I would live a super happy life, and nowadays I just get breakdowns really often thinking about how crap life is and have considered suicide far too many times to count.

I would say small stuff has changed in terms of opinions too for me though as I got older, like as a little child I honestly hated pop music and stuff like that and now it's basically all i listen to, was also really antiviolence and that's completely changed. When I was a child I also had like really racist views to be honest, from how I was brought up and the area I was brought up in, but like that's definitely died down a lot too with just some stereotyping left really now.

[Aiden]

I used to think sex before marriage was bad :O Now idgaf :)

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I guess I was a bit homophobic when I was younger because my dad is but as I got older I started to get my own opinions so I'm not any more. I have different political views to my parents too.

:| oh

[Reality]

I think the main thing is how I used to be a lot more caring when I was younger, but a lack of anyone caring about me has just made me become very heartless at times now.

My attitude towards life has also changed vastly as I got older, used to look forward to it immensely and was scared to die and thought I would live a super happy life, and nowadays I just get breakdowns really often thinking about how crap life is and have considered suicide far too many times to count.

I would say small stuff has changed in terms of opinions too for me though as I got older, like as a little child I honestly hated pop music and stuff like that and now it's basically all i listen to, was also really antiviolence and that's completely changed. When I was a child I also had like really racist views to be honest, from how I was brought up and the area I was brought up in, but like that's definitely died down a lot too with just some stereotyping left really now.

Heartless Tom I think I couldn't see that from you :(

[Tom]

One thing that has changed about me is the fact I used to be obsessed with musicals. It's all I had on my phone etc. however, now I've kind of lost my interest in them. This has probably changed due to being in the actual industry and seeing how people are in it... it's just not my thing. Also, wearing a unitard gets boring after a while.

I have other opinions which I typed out but they sound stupid, so I'll leave it at that one (it's not as stupid).

[geo]

er, i used to think sex before 16 was wrong.. well not like i'd hate somebody for doing it or criticize them, but i mean i wouldn't have done it. now i just don't really care about it, although that doesn't apply to me because single4life. does that count?

i used to want to be in love but now i just think it would hurt too much and i'm avoiding anything like that. but that's for now, it's only because i have new priorities and love would get in the way of them. just gotta see how things go though, things could change so quickly. ^__^

i'm no longer scared of death. reasons i don't wanna go into but yeah, the thought used to scare me but now i've just kind of accepted it. saying that i can't accept the death of other people, like i don't understand it and refuse to believe it for so long, like when there's death of others it makes me feel weird.

[Neversoft]

I don't think I had any particularly strong opinions when I was younger, but there was a time in my life where I romanticised a lot of stuff. Now I know the world isn't all sunshine and rainbows, and it'll fuck you up pretty bad sometimes. I suppose my most controversial and potent thought these days (which I didn't really think about when I was a kid) is that gender roles are kind of bullshit. I don't believe there are more than two genders and all that stuff, but I hate the idea that woman are one way and men are another. I hate thinking that I am defined to be a certain way at birth because of my gender. When people say 'men this' or 'women that' it really grinds my gears. Clumping together billions of people is so stupid. People are individuals and I want to view them as individuals, not as how gender politics says I should view them.


idk i used to tell people that there are people dying of hunger and disease in africa so they should be happy that they are not in their position like literally... that used to be my advice for everything

anyways i learnt that by saying this nor does the person feel better nor do the kids in africa so yep lol

The Perks of Being a Wallflower?

[-:Undertaker:-]

stuff i've changed on (past to> present)

believed global warming > don't believe global warming
believed in Lords reform > don't believe in Lords reform
believed in abortion > don't believe in abortion
believed in legalising drugs > don't believe in drugs being legal
believed in no overseas military stuff > believe in overseas military in some cases

i think more generally in life from work etc i've learnt people are more mean and sneaky than face value, and whether it was stuff like sharing tips and that i wouldn't screw anyone but they'd screw other people - not in a big way but enough now to make me be a lot more cautious as to who i trust.

so my change past year has been to try make myself more selfish cos i'd ALWAYS give over to people on stuff i didn't really care about (who got double bed in hotel room, sharing small tips, just stuff like that) but that i SHOULD care about because it's fair to split stuff equally. it's been hard though so even now sometimes after giving way on something i'll think to myself "you should've stuck to your pledge to be more selfish there" so yeah.

give and take should be a two-way street!!

[Empired]

I don't know what opinions & morals I've had that have changed over time but jesus christ I'm so glad I didn't post in this thread when it was made in 2013 because i would've tried to post some bullshit about being a better, more understanding, more interesting person or whatever and that would've been a straight up lie

[lawrawrrr]

I agree with what empired said

thinking about it now i think the biggest thought thats changed in the last like 10 years is that you can actually ENJOY your job and its not just something that pays the billsand that you kinda like doing

[Triz]

I used to think that School was/would be the worst time of my life.

Boy was I wrong, what I wouldn't give to go back.
but I guess in hindsight, it's not exactly the school per-say, but more-so childhood.