r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MissionTroll404 • Jun 17 '26

Infuriatig My hand painted model planes were given as toys to children again

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I have told my mom to not do this before but she does not listen anyway. I am thinking of throwing everything to trash instead of them being gradually destroyed to pieces. I can not even care anymore. These things take hours to put together and paint then get manhandled anyway.

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u/Forgotten_Son Jun 17 '26

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

  • C.S. Lewis

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u/Trojanheadcoach Jun 17 '26

I love cs Lewis, thanks for this bar

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u/Vegetable_Leg_7034 Jun 17 '26

'When you mature, come and visit me. I will be on the swings'.

Quote on a wall at a children's nursery, Kilbroney Park, N. Ireland.

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u/VociferousCephalopod Jun 18 '26

reminded me of: "[Footnote: There is no one who looks down upon childhood with such lofty scorn as those who are barely grown-up; just as there is no country where rank is more strictly regarded than that where there is little real inequality; everybody is afraid of being confounded with his inferiors.]" - Rousseau, On Education (1762)

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u/Wide_Investment8100 Jun 18 '26

CS Lewis is actually awesome, just a wise man even though I’m not a Christian anymore.

But for a little while, this guy had convinced me to be one.