Do you wish you were younger or do you wish your more mature?

Philippines
July 2, 2010 11:01am CST
For me, I wish I am more mature. Because mature people have already been there and done that. Their experience in life is full and rich. When your life is in between, your life is like always rush, rush, rush, work, work, work, but I guess to reach maturity we all have to pass this whirlwind of a stage.
13 responses
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
21 Jul 10
Well i wish to be more mature and enjoy my kid doing young things
@xcel0684 (76)
• Philippines
3 Jul 10
I am wishing for both. I want to be physically young - not too young - mentally and emotionally mature. How's that?
@derek_a (10874)
3 Jul 10
I used to wish to be more mature and grown up, but now I would love to be younger. But I would like to be younger in body with my old good level of health and vitality, but have the same experienced way of thinking that I do now. Perhaps I am probably wanting too much! I have done the rush, rush, work, work bit in my life and have been careful not to over-spend money and built a home.. Now I am wondering what it was all about, because the things I used to think were important turn out to be not that important at all. I have a comfortable bed to sleep in, a home to live in and food to eat, that is all that's really necessary, but even these days, I find that I still want such things... I guess I have got my mind into a habit of wanting these things, but if I really think about them, I don't really want them at all! Life is strange and a complete mystery, and I love the mystery of how things work in my mind and soul.. _Derek
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
3 Jul 10
When we are young, we can not wait to be mature. The years are milestones to adulthood and maturity. As we get older, we wish to reclaim our childhood. There are certainly days that I wish I were younger. It would be a chance to do the things that were missed on the road from child to adult.
@pwang41 (134)
• Philippines
3 Jul 10
sometimes i do wish i was a kid. a kid's life is so simple unlike being an adult which is so complex. i think what i need is to be more mature though i can say i already am mature for my age. i never really experienced what it was like to be a kid. though i had experienced playing with my neighbors at my age, we were "forced" to mature ahead of our age because they already had given us the responsibilities some parents would think it was to soon for us to accomplish.
3 Jul 10
I haven't stopped thinking about returning to being a child, where everything is free and without any responsibility. :) But that is just a dream. In reality, I could never go back to the past nor go forward to the future. What I can do is to direct myself in the present to at least reach my dreams in the future by learning from my past. The present is a gift that we must always cherish for it is made up of our past and is the cause of our future.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
3 Jul 10
well i like what i am right now, not young but still is not wise on what lies ahead. i am willing to embrace what ever comes my way, this will make me strong and mature. just remembered the last september ondoy, and no wise or matured man has any knowledge about something like that. but still we are alert and now survived. rush rush rush and work work work only means that you are progressive, you use your time in something that is worth it.
@picjim (3002)
• India
2 Jul 10
I neither wish to be younger or more mature.I wish i had a few more financial resources to put my dream plan into action.For the past three years I've planned on a couple of really good projects but the downturn in the real estate market has delayed my projects as my finances are stuck there.At the moment i wish luck were on my side.
@champan (513)
• Argentina
2 Jul 10
Its ok if I prefer to be younger with the later experience ??? haha.
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
3 Jul 10
I just wish some of these aches would go away. Hehe... a gift as age catches up. Love being wise and mature enough to tackle life's challenges. Obviously wise and mature enough to confront what's within. And that's one great battle to achieve.
@juicekodai (1121)
• Philippines
2 Jul 10
sometimes i would wish im still a kid.. the kid that used to run around the neighborhood... when there were no worries of what is going to happen... being a kid feels like i was free from life's troubles and pain... like when i was a kid i only get wounded knees which heals fast, now i get wounded heart..
• United Arab Emirates
2 Jul 10
I feel i was also much mature. I dont feel old...age is just a number. If i was a little more mature i would have done lots of things before time that i am doing now. Life would have been mor earier that it is now.
• Brazil
2 Jul 10
im in high school and i already think the way things goes is kind of wasting me,get it? yet,i wish i was more mature, that i could everything by my own, so i didn't have to depend on anyone, even if that costed more pressure over me.