Why Adulthood Feels Heavy | The Lost Joy of Growing Up
9 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang asks Speaker B what he'd tell his 8-year-old self, Divesh. The answer: have more fun. Speaker B warns that growing up trades childhood's playfulness for a heaviness that feels unnecessary, and says the real skill is keeping joy while handling adult life.
Questions this video answers
I think I'll probably tell him to have more fun than he is. Like, as a kid, I was pretty naughty, but then I think as you grow, you start getting serious when the real world hits you. So I would probably say learn to enjoy the life along with it as well. It's probably the one thing I would say. But I think as we grow older, we get too serious about the so‑called trying to be mature and this and that.










