When you were young, what is something that made you envious of older people?

Nothing...and I am sure whippersnappers are not envious of me.

Those examples, other than voting. And moving away. 

 

  Well, it depends on how young you’re talking about. I’ll just say that before I was 10 years old, I don’t remember being envious of adults. I am sure that in my young mind I recognized the differences between what adults could do, had to do, should’ve done, were doing and what I as a child did or could not do. I had not yet made the connection in my mind that the difference between being able to run outside and play when I wanted to and being taken care of, a roof over my head, food to eat that was provided by someone else, none of that had impressed my young mind. Yet. Then fast forward to my teen years, in retrospect, I believe that I was certainly looking forward to things that I would be doing, but I did not associate it in my mind as a direct correlation of being envious of adults who are doing those things.
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This post was edited by Randy D at June 3, 2023 5:46 PM MDT

Everything.  I wanted to be grown up desperately from a young age.  I knew adulthood was going to be so much better than childhood and I was right! 

Older people tended to be taller, and I wanted to be older/taller to ride the big roller coasters!!!