Why do we often miss the childhood?

Wu Jiahui
2 min readNov 20, 2020

I believe many of us often think about the happy things happened in our childhood, with a warm smile maybe. At the same time, we may be sadden by the fact that those time won’t come back. That might feel like paradox for us, right? How should we treat this thoughts ? Is it healthy? Is it normal?

The answers to this complicated problem varies. Some shrinks may give some professional advice to us when we spent fortune on consulting. Unfortunately, we may continue nevertheless live the same way no matter what others told us. However, no matter how we take this phenomena, extreme actions should not be encourage. To avoid that, we should try to relief the greatly sad by, which I think is the best, figuring out the reason behind that. Also, by giving you my answer, I don’t think

First , we may need to recall when will this happened at the highest frequency. As far as I am concerned, many interesting stories have came into my ear from every generation, including my parents, grandma, cousin Paul, and so on. Therefore, we might admit that it is not about just only one generation. I distinctly remembered the last time I think about my childhood, all the games I played with my neighbour and the delicious food I tried at first time, was last Friday when I worked overtime alone at home, receiving the urgent message from my boss telling me to hurry up. I turned angry about my stupid work and try to curse our client who kill my entire weekend. With all these spiteful feelings, I suddenly recall how I spent my Friday night when I was four. It happened in a small town, where we knew almost every one. Of course, most significantly, the game (not the computer one), we ask everybody we knew to join in, as we believe the more people the funnier the game is. Undoubfultly, we play hard until our parent urge us to get home. See the difference? Doing something I hate alone, or playing with all your pals without knowing what exhaust is, which favour you ? I believe the answer is better. All I am trying to say is that , for most of us, we need these memories to diminish the pain we were going through. Thus, the answer seems so obvious, these scene are more likely to happened when we at the opposite of the happiness.

To be continued…

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Wu Jiahui
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A Ph.D. student in Cyber security