We're all growing up, and it's safe to say that the majority of us that were children on this forum are now adults, and we're about to step into a life of responsibility and labor, duty and commitment.

What are some lessons you've learned growing up that will shape you as an adult, and how did you learn them?

Personally, I've learned to trust strangers a little bit more, and my friends a little less. It's easy to put your trust into somebody, and they turn around and use your secrets against you. However, there's nothing wrong with sharing some secrets with strangers who have no reason to fuck with you, and who knows, you might make some solid friends.

I learned that when you're trying to make Captain Cook as a character in a universe where names = power, there's only really 2 things you can do. Make him a Captain. Or Make him a Cook.

Guess what I'm going with.

Everything that I knew was bullshit about the adult world, turned out to be bullshit after all. Now I'm left with little choice but to acquiesce to these painstaking realities, since I've been an adult for some time now. Now I understand more than ever why adults ignored me, told me I didn't understand, said that that's just the way things are and tried desperately to justify their lives. Now that I've been an adult and I know how right I was I'm even harder to deal with and people older than me still arbitrarily hold my age over my head, because they still choose to be blind. In that regard being an adult is extremely depressing.

Quote from Hewitt

I learned that when you're trying to make Captain Cook as a character in a universe where names = power, there's only really 2 things you can do. Make him a Captain. Or Make him a Cook.

Guess what I'm going with.

Zeff from one piece disagrees.

I'm not sure what you mean, Jussu baby. You mentioned that now you know, yet you never specified.

Also, I learned that my parents are right about a lot of shit.

I think I've vented throughout the forums enough for you guys to have an idea on what I've learned while growing up.

See here, here, and especially here for more.

It's like I always knew, but now I know I was right. Whether people like it or not.

I guess most people have stories about how they learned how wrong they were, I wish I was wrong, I wish.

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Zeff from one piece disagrees.

But Zeff never lived in a corrupted alternate reality where a 14 year old with a mind of a 10 year old who can wither things by touching them controls the universe of kill or be killed.

Yeah I'm just trying to pitch the story in my sig.


Anyways, I learned that life is not a race. And you should never claim inno on the first day if you are the cop in epic mafia. And if you're the doc, you better just lurk and pretend to be vanilla.

I learned that Hewitt will somehow relate his story to any and every situation

I learned that nice people can be assholes and assholes can be nice people.

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I learned that nice people can be assholes and assholes can be nice people.

I'm glad I taught you something

some background story on your guys' lessons would be great. What happened to make you realize that?

Mostly trying to talk with girls way back when. I'm on my phone right now, so I may or may not write about it.

Well I'm still in the same old job, same old everything while my friends have gotten places, gotten married, gotten new insights in life. But if I sit back I can see that I've somehow levelled up as well, but not noticeably so.

Also, I was playing this mean epicmafia game and I accidentally thought that the broadcast button was the whisper button so I told the whole village my cop claim was inno. And instead of spending what should've been 30 minutes on a rated simply 5-player game, turned into a gruelling hour of deception where there was no other discernible way to track the mafia other than to TALK and one up each other's bullshit. It was excruciating but we finally finished and the town won.

There's always weeds to be pulled up in life, but sometimes, their roots run too deep.

There's definitely things you want to pursue in life, and although you may really want to, it might require too much effort, or tear up too much of your life outside that event.

I was talking to a girl for a solid month. We'd stay up until 5am just talking almost every day, and we clicked like fucking crazy. However, she led me on and told me she wasn't into a relationship. The day after she spilled her soul out to my suitemate, who's definitely shredded, but bangs every other girl he finds.

Nothing against him, but damn. I really thought I had found somebody special. Now, as trust lines begin to tangle and my intentions begin to cloud my thoughts and actions, I've realized that although there's a plethora of roads I can walk in this situation, maybe the best road is back to where I came from.