Do we become different people as we age?

You are right, we are changing, changing every day...it does make sense because of the life experience that you got day by day. However, the basic character is not changed much, you are still you and not any one else. I am pleasant with who i am now, even though i pass many things in my life, happy, sorrow, painful, etc...any emotion status i pass through it and it makes me love my life time more.

I think that as we get older and experiences new things and go through things we change to certain degrees. Some changes are so small and unnoticeable and others are huge changing.

Well, as we grow older, we do become wiser and we adapt to different situations. We do change somewhat in order to fit with our current surroundings, or in order to progress, but do we really ever change at out core? Probably not. I know some people who try to change, but eventually, there true colors do come out, and they show people who they really are, so no, they haven't really changed, they just adapted to fit a certain situation.

I quite agree with you. as People age, many can be changed in a way. On one hand, people's knowledge and experience becomes wider and wider. They will become calm, unlikely to be inspired by some unexpected things. they will become wiser and wiser and learn to deal with difficult problems. in a way age is a kind of treasure.

Uh huh! When I am still an elementary, I always want to go out, to go to my neighbors house so that we will play. When I am in high school, I rarely go out in my house to go to my friends to play. And, now I'm in college, I don't want to go out to play anymore. It is like, I want to stay in the house more than in the outside. It is now tiring to go out always to play. It is like, my hobbies, perceptions, likes..have changed. So, we change and change while we grow up.

I agree with you definitely. I've experience starting to love things that I've hated when I was younger, 'coz as we grow older we should grow smarter too right? I've seen different perspectives in life, and I understand other's point of views that I began to take sides with them too. For every lessons that life has given us, we carry knowledge and wisdom learned with us, and those things we've collected in our life and past experiences shapes to a different person, whether bad or good.

When I was fourteen years old my friend's mom had a conversation about how people change as they get older. She said that a sixteen year old is totally different by thirty five years old. She thought that age twenty was too young for my friend's brother to get married. She thought how he and his girlfriend would change as they got older. My mom is less adventurous with her car driving. She will only drive in her local area the coastal town that we live in. I think a teenager is very energetic and noisy but a person double that age is less speedy and more quiet.

I am 35 today and I think that I have changed a lot during the last 10 or 15 years. When I was 20 I was very shy and I didn't have many friends. Today I am much more open and it is much easier for me to talk to people I don't know. When I was 20 I was totally anti-materialistic. I wanted to carry all of my belongings in a suitcase and I wanted spend my entire life on travelling. I wanted to travel from place to place, and take any temporary job that I could find. I wanted to remain single and independent and I wanted to keep that lifestyle forever. Today I am married and I have bought a house

I believe we do we change our ways maybe from the mistakes we have made along the way and try our best to stay away from the bad things out there! I agree that some not all people get grumpy in their older ages. I have seen that happen.

Yes, we become better or worse... because of the trials and problems we face, we can become stronger.. Also ,it depends on the people we are with, they help us change too- and the path or job we choose in life..

I do not think that we become different people, but that our preferences and likes change. As the new decade comes, comes new things that we may find that we like. Liking new things does not make us different people, but the same person with new likes and dislikes. The world will have so many new things coming. It is almost impossible for one person to stay the same. I think that if no one changed their feelings about things, the world would not be where it is today.

Yes, I think people change depending on the things in life that they encounter. If we didn't change, we would be making the same mistakes over and over again, and would never learn or help ourselves or others grow.

I wouldn't really call it different, we just shape or improve (or not improve :D) throuhgout the time. It's always a process, and I guess a part of will always stay the same. Of course, as we face and meet new challenges, we make mistakes, we are shaped.

I'm not that grown up but the way I see it we don't really change. I mean to say that our personalities don't change drastically.As time goes on we start feeling better about our selves, get more comfortable in our own skin. We learn how to be confident,we find more friends and we learn how to control ourselves and how to accept our flaws. This process doesn't really make us different people,but we become better in the process of aging.These are my observations so far although I suspect that as I go through the aforementioned process my opinion will change but at this point in my life I feel like my personality hasn't changed all that much-I've just learned how to make it work better for me.

Of course we become different people as we get older. Our life experiences change us into who we are and the more life experience we have the more different we become. We change after we start a family, change jobs, relationships, illness.... all sorts of things can change a person along the way.

Well some people do mature right as they get older. I do say that some people, because as I have said, some people grow up and many other people just merely get older. Yet I do wonder if we are really the same person, just slightly more reserved, less bombastic, and perhaps a bit older. Or if we have really change to the point where our past self would not recognize our future self as the same person. Of course, there are going to be many different elements that are going to affect our lives and pretty much everything that goes along with it. I think that I am different in some ways than I was ten years ago but rather similar in other ways. What I'll be like ten years from now, we don't really know what may in fact happen but it will be fascinating.

Well, just to answer your question, from my point of view, we will undoubtedly change with the advance of age. Grow, mature, the experience that life teaches us every day. Even from the mistakes we understand that the next time we will have to act differently. To me it seems a logical reasoning, we are the first children, then teenagers, adults, and finally after old. It is important to take stock of our daily experience.

we all know that the only thing that is constant in this world is change. i know i have changed a lot not only physically but also how i am because i am more girly girly and very strict when it comes to cleanliness haha compared of course when i was younger when i didn't know much about contamination and all that because i have studied and learned about it. i also think i got more mature. but some of the things that have not changed are me being a comedienne haha i just love to joke around my friends.

I think some people do. If they go through different situations, they can either come out of it a stronger person and learn from it, or they can let it tear them down. Then I feel there are some people who never grow up or change!

Of course we all change. Have you ever gotten together with an old friend that you haven't seen or spoken to for years, only to find that you now have nothing in common, nothing to talk about even? And what about when people say "we just grew apart"? People do change, they mature, they gain insight as to what life is all about, they gain wisdom, education, experience, new perspectives and attitudes...the list of things that change us is endless. I think it would not be possible to survive in this ever changing world if we didn't change along with it.