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How innocent/naive were you when you were 19?

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I'm 23 now, and for the past 5 years I've just been called a manipulative bastard. There wasn't much I was naive about at 19.
 
Seems like everyone who has posted is naive about how "not naive" they where.

What the phuck were you guys doing then? Why didn't you cure cancer or become a millionaire!?
 
i'm not. not just saying that, i see friends, others. of course there are some things others have experienced and can comprehend things i can't but for the most part, definitely not
 
Originally posted by: jds2006
I'm 19 and people always tell me they think I'm innocent and naive. I guess there is some truth to that, considering how sheltered I've been my whole life.

ditto
 
Originally posted by: toolboxolio
Seems like everyone who has posted is naive about how "not naive" they where.

What the phuck were you guys doing then? Why didn't you cure cancer or become a millionaire!?
Hahah no doubt. I'm guessing a lot will look back when they're 55 and think "Yeah, I was." Who wasn't, really?
 
Originally posted by: potoba
Originally posted by: BoomerD
By the time I was 19, I has spent almost 2 years in Vietnam...kind of takes the innocence/naivety off pretty quick.

I think people there are so naive... or you just met wrong people.

Probably hard to "meet people" when they are trying to shoot him.
 
WTF do you mean by naive? I've known many adults 45+ that are naive.. by my definition. I'm 20 and I would not consider myself naive. Innocent, perhaps 😛
 
Originally posted by: slsmnaz
Originally posted by: potoba
Originally posted by: BoomerD
By the time I was 19, I has spent almost 2 years in Vietnam...kind of takes the innocence/naivety off pretty quick.

I think people there are so naive... or you just met wrong people.

Probably hard to "meet people" when they are trying to shoot him.

ROFL! so true...
potoba, I wasn't there to meet new and exiting people, I was there to kill as many of "THEM" as I could...all in the interest of freeing them from the godless communists of course...:roll:
 
I turned 19 on April 18. I would have to say that turning 19 or 18 for that matter didn't do anything for me. What did a lot for me was College because everything rested squarely on my shoulders. I didn't have parents telling me to do anything or what not.

As for my behavior, my parents were absolutely incredible in my childhood. I would have to say that I can be very pompous sometimes, but outside of that very respectful, very humorous (Sometimes at my own expense 🙂 ), kind etc... (I can't be mean to people at all)

-Kevin
 
I think i was less aware of many things at that age but i was not innocent.
Heck, i still am unaware and i think as we all grow and change, so does our mind and selves become more intune and knowing.
 
Extremely innocent, but not very naive. I knew how the world works, I just hadn't experienced damned near anything.
 
At 19, at least in America you are always naive, and too stupid to know that you are naive. A 19yr old that thinks he's smart is stupider than a 19yr old that knows he's stupid. Thats why I cant stand college political activists. They are too stupid to know they are stupid.
 
Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
I can't remember myself, but I know I've grown up a lot since I was 20.

Kinda had a flashback tonight, when talking to a girl I'm getting to know.

It was weird telling her about things which I thought were common sense and she was just learning about these things.

i am 19. probably not very naive but well, what do i know ? 😛
 
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
At 19, at least in America you are always naive, and too stupid to know that you are naive. A 19yr old that thinks he's smart is stupider than a 19yr old that knows he's stupid. Thats why I cant stand college political activists. They are too stupid to know they are stupid.
QFT

 
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