You could offer younger self advice, what would you say?

jstavix
jstavix Posts: 407 Member
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Mine is a no brainer, it would be not to settle and don't listen to my mom, she didn't know a damn thing!!

So,
what would you offer the younger you in the way of advice?
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  • sissiluv
    sissiluv Posts: 2,205 Member
    Trying to off yourself solved nothing, don't do it.
  • MaryJane_8810002
    MaryJane_8810002 Posts: 2,082 Member
    1.Lay off the Chinese food and Burger King.
    2. Sleep with that gothic girl
    3. Keep Losing Weight
    4. Go to the other College
    5. Visit your sister
    6. Have a threesome with those lesbians
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Listen to your mom.
  • stickersticker
    stickersticker Posts: 140 Member
    Just cause a stripper wants to marry you doesn't mean you should, young man.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    you are not insane
    it really is not your fault
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
    Don't go on a diet and start a f'ed up relationship with food.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,148 Member
    1. Don't bother with college
    2. Don't get pregnant
    3. Stop hanging out with Kim and Julie
  • Alidecker
    Alidecker Posts: 1,262 Member
    1. get healthy and lose the weight earlier
    2. travel more when I was younger, when I didn't have a career
    3. Go to culinary school
  • mitchiejo
    mitchiejo Posts: 179 Member
    1. Just because you got pregnant doesn't mean you need to marry the loser!
    2. Eat healthier
    3. Lift weights
    4. Be happy! You can't change other people and the sooner you learn to live with others the easier life gets.
  • Megan101792
    Megan101792 Posts: 3,194 Member
    Nothing. If I didn't have what happened to me before, I wouldn't be the person I am now, and I'm quite happy with who i am
  • cowbellsandcoffee
    cowbellsandcoffee Posts: 2,975 Member
    Ride more.
  • KBjimAZ
    KBjimAZ Posts: 369 Member
    The relationship with your high school girlfriend ends in 2 months anyway, and your parents will respect your decision. Take the opportunity to be stationed in Italy.
  • sculli123
    sculli123 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Don't ever get married. That is all.
  • luvcookiemonster
    luvcookiemonster Posts: 237
    When he asks you to marry him, say HELL NO!
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    sunscreen
  • madworld1
    madworld1 Posts: 524
    Just say no. Go to school. Enjoy your teenage years. Every choice you make now will affect your future.
  • doctorsookie
    doctorsookie Posts: 1,084 Member
    #1 Save yourself till marriage. Wait, I did tell myself that.
    #2 Go to college and get a degree. Wait I said that too but since I didn't listen to # 1, # 2 didn't happen.
  • KameHameHaaa
    KameHameHaaa Posts: 244 Member
    1) Don't go on comfort food binges with your mom when her and dad fight, it will only start an unhealthy food addiction.
    2) The neighborhood kids are not your friends. Stop following them around, the sooner the better.
    3) Don't go to church/youth group. Or at least don't go to the church your parents are going to. Nothing good will come of it.
    4) Don't stay silent when Ricky corners you and repeatedly harasses you in the back hallway after karate class.
    5) Don't go in that house alone while you wait for Jake to arrive. In fact, don't go in that house at all anymore. Never go back. And while you're at it just break up with Jake. He ends up cheating on you with a 16 year old anyway.
    6) Take the offer to stay in Okinawa.
    7) Just shell out the money for better fitting shoes. It will save you years of grief.
    8) Don't try to lift heavy on your own, without any experience or guidance. If you do, you'll rupture a disc and things just get worse for you physically from there.
  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
    1) lose the booze
    2) take advantage of the college education Mom & Dad paid for; don't think you can major in Partying (see #1)
    3) don't think "things will change once we are married"
    4) find your passion and pursue it!!
  • baba_helly
    baba_helly Posts: 810 Member
    Don't do drugs
  • charlton200
    charlton200 Posts: 29 Member
    1) your too clumsy to ride a motorbike, don't do it
    2) trust yourself more - every decision you make is the right one if it's right for you at the time
    3) pay more attention at uni, it's so awesome you don't want to miss any of it
  • karen7856
    karen7856 Posts: 4
    1) Don't eat junk food.
    2) Don't let yourself get into debt...ever.
    3) Invest a small amount each month for the future (in a stock mutual fund) and don't touch it no matter what happens to the market until you're 10 yrs from needing the money. At that time, move it to something safer like a bond fund.
    4) Don't marry the wrong man. If your parents and friends don't like him, there is something wrong with him. You can't see it because love is truly blind.
    5) Maintain a good work-life balance. There are more important things in life than money and success. Work to live, don't live to work.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    1. Do NOT start smoking.
    2. Forgive yourself.
    3. Don't let him hit you. Leave.
    4. Be yourself. It's okay to be weird, different, odd.
  • Deborah105
    Deborah105 Posts: 183 Member
    You are lovely!

    Study piano.

    Keep taking Spanish.

    You'll love being a journalist.
  • PeteWhoLikesToRunAlot
    PeteWhoLikesToRunAlot Posts: 596 Member
    I'd kick the crap out of my younger self and tell him that's what he gets for being a future chump. I'd then threaten him with repeated beatings unless he becomes less chump-ish.
  • whitebalance
    whitebalance Posts: 1,654 Member
    Dear Younger Self,
    Don't worry about your butt. Someday that thang's gonna be in style. Women everywhere are gonna be spending hours in the gym TRYING to get a big round butt. I kid you not.
    Love,
    Me
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    for the love of god don't care so much what people think of you!



    ...wait. i could probably still use that advice now. lol.

    to be honest i agree with a previous poster who said nothing, because it made her who she is now and she's quite happy now. i feel the same way. i have honestly never been happier in life and love. never thought it was genuinely possible for me. and, for the first time in, well, ever, i see my future as a bright, happy place. my ability now to even actually conjure up a mental image of my future is a pretty new one for me. i know reality isn't always like that, but that's ok. i know some storms will come through - but again, that's ok. that's life. i'm very content now, and thoughts of my future make me even happier.
  • airdale8263
    airdale8263 Posts: 2,155 Member
    No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.
  • sculli123
    sculli123 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Dear Younger Self,
    Don't worry about your butt. Someday that thang's gonna be in style. Women everywhere are gonna be spending hours in the gym TRYING to get a big round butt. I kid you not.
    Love,
    Me
    pics of butt for evaluation purposes please :wink:
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Lean how to eat rather than focusing on a number on the scale.

    And...

    Trust and honor your instincts when it comes to others.

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