It's totally natural to mourn a lost childhood. Missed opportunities like those, whether through your fault or not, is a very common human experience.
The antidote for it, I think, is to reconnect with things that you think you might have liked as a child. It's never too late to get into an interest, and those who say otherwise are usually dealing with insecurity over the societal pressure to "let go" of things that make us happy because of the myth that it's what an adult is "supposed" to do.
The antidote for it, I think, is to reconnect with things that you think you might have liked as a child. It's never too late to get into an interest, and those who say otherwise are usually dealing with insecurity over the societal pressure to "let go" of things that make us happy because of the myth that it's what an adult is "supposed" to do.