Changing Views with Age

Commenters discuss how perspectives, opinions, and maturity evolve significantly as people age, with older users often advising younger ones that their current views will shift over time.

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Activity Over Time

2007
14
2008
40
2009
85
2010
108
2011
92
2012
162
2013
202
2014
133
2015
196
2016
242
2017
211
2018
266
2019
266
2020
333
2021
416
2022
526
2023
555
2024
429
2025
446
2026
40

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Sample Comments

qrbLPHiKpiux Apr 4, 2021 View on HN

You sound young.You will change your thoughts as you age.

StevePerkins Aug 20, 2014 View on HN

It's strange how age and the passage of time can change you. When I was in my 20's, I used to say things exactly like this. The further along I get into my 30's, the more I read things like this and experience the same feeling I get when reading "9/11 Truth" material.

monero-xmr Jan 24, 2024 View on HN

It’s crazy to think how old I am now. But give it 20 more years and you’ll come around.

abraae Jun 11, 2021 View on HN

You may think differently as you get older.

porphyrogene Nov 28, 2018 View on HN

I can relate to him. I used to think that adulthood was a permanent state, that I would feel the same age at 30 as I did at 20. That is not the case, I feel exactly the age that I am and I learned just as much in my last ten years as I did in the ten years prior.

rantwasp Oct 27, 2020 View on HN

i am going to guess you are somewhat young (<60). watch how your opinion shifts as you get older

fragmede Mar 19, 2024 View on HN

"not much". at that age it's material! who I was at 18 and who I was at 23 is way different than the difference between 35 and 40

the_clarence Nov 28, 2018 View on HN

Can’t agree more. I experience and changed a lot when I was in my early 20s. Now life moves slowly.

braymundo Dec 22, 2016 View on HN

My experience has been the same. I'm 33 and sometimes it seems that I was not even fully conscious in my 20s as I am now. Hopefully this trend will continue and someday I'll look back and think I was a naive idiot at 33. :P

jstanley Sep 26, 2022 View on HN

It's a third of his life ago. Were you the same person at 19 as you were at 12?