I guess they were both okay, but not some kind of youthful bliss worth revisiting. My life was better as a child than as an adult but I didn't have the whole unabashed, hopeful kid thing going on. I was a morose little fucker lol.
I think its cliche for people to say they were happier as a child but I think its more accurate to say I was ignorant as a child lol (well me personally). You see its easy to be happy when you don't know what you were missing out on, being "happy" as a child is like being glad you are the richest homeless man the way I look at it, we had no idea all the shit other people were enjoying outside our age group, we were giddy watching cartoons while guys were getting blow jobs.
When I look at it like that, i can't say I was happier then as I am now (knowing the truth and being able to struggle against this reality makes me happy), I was just ignorant of all the shit I was missing out on. A good example would be a man getting a promotion and working for months, being quite happy about his pay raise, only until he later finds out that everyone else who has that position was getting paid more than him the entire time, nothing actually changed objectively, his pay is still higher than what it was before, but
RELATIVE to everyone else he was being cheated.
Lets not even get into teens, I was somewhat oblivious even then because I never went out, its only in my late teens I started to realize that everyone else was partying and fucking like crazy and I was "happy" at home playing video games.
We weren't happy as children, we were just ignorant of what true happiness entails
Can one genuinely gauge their own happiness if they aren't fully aware of all the options they have available?. I'd say its more like we had bliss as children, because ignorance is bliss, but happines, no.
Oh and I guess I learned a new word today - Morose (sounds like the name of a colour, like maroon)
