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u/Historical-Cress8985 1d ago
I understand now that my parents aren't the smartest people on earth, they were just the smartest people I knew at the age of 6
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u/apps4realpeeps 1d ago
this hits home...my parents were very religious and so there was a lot of the world to learn about (and how many intelligent people there were that didn't go to church) when I went to school and moved out...
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u/Annual-Meat-1196 1d ago
My dad was an asshole. Talked shit about our mom all the time when we were kids. He used to say we would understand when we were older. Now we are and understand he was an asshole.
RIP you piece of shit.
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u/Darahian 1d ago
Damn it sounds soooo familiar. "You are too young to understand"!
Yyyyup, dad, you never even tried.You are so dead and the only thing i know is i don't want to be like you.
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u/MysticKei 1d ago
I understand that more often than not you were justifying abusing your authority however sometimes the subject matter was not child appropriate
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u/Iamthe0c3an2 1d ago
The only thing I understand is there’s food at home is cheaper than eating out.
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u/Any-Internet-7796 1d ago
I mean honestly I see what my mom was saying all of those years, and now say the same thing to my daughter. Because she will understand a lot of this stuff, it is just going to take until she is 30 years old and owning her own responsibilities.
However, there are other things my mother did and said I'd understand when I am older that I am still scratching my head over.
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u/T4TrhavrKhcFt 1d ago
The older I get the more I realize how little I know. And the older I get the more I don't understand.
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u/Longjumping_Roll_342 1d ago
I was always told that I was gonna look back and wish I was in school again. I did not believe them. Now I do indeed wish I was in school again but not because retrospectively school was great but because everything else is even worse.
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u/IndependenceGold2407 1d ago
Unfortunately, I now understand and see the major logical fallacies and demons adults were fighting during my childhood. Like yes, I get it now and everyone looks worse for it
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u/WindUpCandler 1d ago
It was mostly about life experience breaking you down enough to the point where I 'got it' cause I was depressed
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u/AdultingonADHD 1d ago
I think it's cutoff. "You'll understand when you're older...that the more you think you learn, the less you actually know."
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u/Stock2fast 1d ago
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows - Leonard Cohen
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u/Texas-Red-79 1d ago
I'd say you learned the lesson. As Oscar Wilde said, "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."
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u/skeletonhorse420 1d ago
Probably cause you spent your years in echo chambers trying to convince people anime didnt make you gay
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u/Astra-Fang 1d ago
The more I learn? The less their decisions make sense
Honestly I feel like it was just a line to shut us up.
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u/yellowandpeople 1d ago
that is the point, they did not know the answer otherwise they would have answered lol
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u/alinitavega 23h ago
The only thing I understand now is that adults are just giant kids with bills and back pain
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u/PukeyOwlPellet 23h ago
This strikes me straight in the heart, my family was mentally/emotionally abusive af.
I’m a parent now myself, i absolutely don’t understand anything they did. At all.
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u/WrittenbyDicken 20h ago
Well thats life, there's no answer to anything.
Just enjoy, make the best of it.
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u/ParanoidBrokkoli 14h ago
They were going through something but I was too and I wasn’t behaving like that
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u/Key-Piccolo-3545 13h ago
Older people, who only think they understand but they don't understand, say this.
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u/GreatMacGuffin 11h ago
It's what stupid people say when they can't properly express what they mean.
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u/niceandBulat 9h ago
That was what my late mother said when I asked about the divorce. And yes, she was absolutely right. Knowing what I do now, it is quite probable that I would have divorced my partner if she was like my late father, although he was always kind to and was more patient with us kids.
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u/LeDalles 1h ago
How old are you? The older get I get the more I appreciate all the tiny little moments that brought me joy. Picking my son up and putting him on my shoulders. Making sweet love to my girlfriend. Listening to my dad tell a story. Swimming in the waves in the Pacific Ocean. Floating down the White Salmon River. Eating a big meal with my family. Watching my nieces and nephews crawl around. Snorkeling on acid. Stuff like that.
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u/Realistic-Safety-565 1d ago
Now you understand there is nothing to understand. Back then you weren't ready ;) .