Is it normal i’m starting to regret not running away from home when i was 10

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I’m almost 21 now, but I remember being 10 years old very well. Back then I was obsessed with Comedy Central, and I often fantasized about running away from home and having a successful career as a stand up comedian and proving to everyone how useless school is by taking care of myself despite not going to it anymore.

Deep down I knew this fantasy wouldn’t come true, but looking back I’m starting to wish that, at the VERY least, I ran away at some point, just so I could get a glimpse of what being on my own felt like. I feel like I’ve been too sheltered, and I’ve spent so much time thinking about being an adult that now that adulthood is finally here I don’t know how to handle it. I just get so confused and frustrated with myself that I sometimes wish I was never even born.

Maybe that’s extreme, but it’s how I honestly feel.

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  • bigbudchonga
    4 years ago

    Your difference probably would have been no different form life atm; except for one day in your life when you became scared, cold, lost, and were crying for your mum until a cop picked you up and dropped you back home.

    Let's be honest dude. No kid is giving up first-world living for being a homeless runaway for any longer than they realise what they've given up.

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    • Hubbard
      4 years ago

      Kinda my point was that I wish I did it at least once so I could have had a glimpse of the real world.

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      • bigbudchonga
        4 years ago

        Fair enough, that does make sense.

        Do you think it might have given you more respect and gratitude for what you had?

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          4 years ago

          Possibly

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  • Nikclaire
    4 years ago

    Just think, you could have been a human trafficked, heroin junkie, sex slave. Ah regrets.....

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  • d0esnormalmatter
    4 years ago

    Not at age 10 mate wayyyy too risky.

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  • Unknown_player
    4 years ago

    You should of left at 18, leaving at 18 is a common thing in our country and more age appropriate

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  • JjKooda223
    4 years ago

    I used to think like that, and a lot of times i would ask myself what the point of life was. Think of life as a donut. If you know you can finish it in a few bites why eat it at all?

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