I know this mood
Sometimes I feel that I do not know how to do so many things that many people my age should not. Pretty dull and boring person who hasn't seen or done much..
31-35, F
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Dainbramadge · 56-60, M
I feel that academically.
Mostly when my kids bring homework to my house for me to help them do.
I really sucked in school. I didn't learn very much and failed most of my classes multiple times. Didn't graduate.
I missed out of a lot of academic things that most people know and learned in school.
I never, being 55 now, memorized my timetables. No s*** can you imagine that?
That's just one example. Life gets really busy when you're playing catch up and keep up at the same time.
Mostly when my kids bring homework to my house for me to help them do.
I really sucked in school. I didn't learn very much and failed most of my classes multiple times. Didn't graduate.
I missed out of a lot of academic things that most people know and learned in school.
I never, being 55 now, memorized my timetables. No s*** can you imagine that?
That's just one example. Life gets really busy when you're playing catch up and keep up at the same time.
BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F
@Dainbramadge Ah, education and academics were never an indication of how smart a person is, or how knowledgeable they are... You can always educate yourself by yourself, you don't need academics for that... Tables memorization is useless knowledge anyway 🤷♀️ It is not like we need it and I work in finance and accounting and I still think it is useless!
Dainbramadge · 56-60, M
@BittersweetPotato I like the way you think.
One of my teachers in high school, bless his heart, was very worldly as well as academically intelligent. He possessed a certain charismatic ability to get ideas across and share his own life experiences. The man was amazing. He was also considered one of the toughest teachers in the school. For some reason he liked me. Maybe it was because I took his class 3 years in a row. My last year he actually gave me a passing grade even though I didn't do anything to earn it.
One of the very deep things that he shared that made a lasting impact on my life was this:
School does everything they can for you by the fourth grade. At that time they have taught you how to learn.
Everything in school after that is just exposure.
So, that in mind I do already know how to learn and everything I do know how to do I have had to teach myself.
Believe it or not I still count on my fingers. LOL. True story
One of my teachers in high school, bless his heart, was very worldly as well as academically intelligent. He possessed a certain charismatic ability to get ideas across and share his own life experiences. The man was amazing. He was also considered one of the toughest teachers in the school. For some reason he liked me. Maybe it was because I took his class 3 years in a row. My last year he actually gave me a passing grade even though I didn't do anything to earn it.
One of the very deep things that he shared that made a lasting impact on my life was this:
School does everything they can for you by the fourth grade. At that time they have taught you how to learn.
Everything in school after that is just exposure.
So, that in mind I do already know how to learn and everything I do know how to do I have had to teach myself.
Believe it or not I still count on my fingers. LOL. True story
mynameisray · 26-30, M
Everyone’s progression is different. Nothing wrong with it at all. Be you! I was on the other spectrum of what you’re feeling, skipped the whole teenage side of things and literally adopted the full grown adulting life and it’s forever bugged me that till this day I still can’t get along with people my own age. But, it is what it is and you gotta keep moving on. You’ll get the hang of things sooner or later than you think.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
I'm still sometimes surprised to remember I'm an adult.