Yeah, being 10 was so much more awesome. I can't believe how easy I was to entertain back then.
I hear it all gets better in the mid and late 20's though, after all that "entering adulthood" crap is figured out, and everyone stops caring while they're still young enough to do things. I'm hoping that happens once I graduate, since I realize that being in school and the job to pay for it has absolutely destroyed my social life.
Yeah, 10 was great. I'd go to school, do all my homework for the week in two hours or so, and spent all the rest of my time reading about whatever I felt like. And the math classes... those used to be so much fun. Nowadays, if you put a sheet of stuff on fractions or basic algebra in front of me, I'll stab you with my graphing calculator. 13 and onwards was just downhill, though >_>
I'm sure it'll get better. It's just that craptacular logistics problem of growing up, getting stuff done in a day, and so on. I also think I kind of disapprove of the absurd social shit around the transition to adulthood, because it's sort of like being put through a meatgrinder. Like... intellectual puberty, I guess. Except no one writes cute and snarky books to help you through it or tell you everything you need to know. No, there's just a giant body of crap that you have to dig through, thousands of pages of contradictory advice... and out of this, you're supposed to find simplicity, beauty, and a way of life? Suddenly, I begin to understand why people turn to religion. It's a hell of a lot easier when you have someone else to tell you what to do.
I'm over 30 and it sucks.
Screw you too, mate >_>