What would you tell your 17 year old self if you had the cha

MaryEffingPoppins
MaryEffingPoppins Posts: 371 Member
edited November 12 in Chit-Chat
This question just came across my mind. Would your life be any different if you could have given yourself a few pep talks? If you would have maybe listened to your parents more. Maybe appreciated more... What would you tell your 17 year old self if you had the chance?
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  • candicemaechling
    candicemaechling Posts: 152 Member
    Enjoy your friends now worry about what stupid boys think less u have am amazing man out there for u 4 years in the future and your worth more than you think.
  • mrmarius
    mrmarius Posts: 1,802 Member
    learn to eat better because that high metabolism will slow down... learn to budget now or you'll learn the hardway
  • MrsAngelique
    MrsAngelique Posts: 164 Member
    Stay in school. Work can wait!
  • pinupgirl333
    pinupgirl333 Posts: 8
    Stay away from me ex lol, and watch your drinking
  • Red7Basil
    Red7Basil Posts: 36
    Take the SAT's seriously.
  • onegoalabs
    onegoalabs Posts: 24
    get a Bachelors and Masters in something you like even if its Kinisiology.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    Stay in school. Work can wait!

    ^ THIS!

    And there's a guy I wasted way too many years with. I'd warn myself. lol
  • christina0089
    christina0089 Posts: 709 Member
    Put more effort in to thinking about your future (education wise) I wish I had gone to college but it was hard with my disability and child on the way. When my class graduated I was in the final tri-mester with my son.
  • tasinda_wechange
    tasinda_wechange Posts: 7
    Wait more than act. Listen more than talk. If you feel something in your gut, go with that more often than not. If you are listening to someone and thinking, "They don't make sense," they probably don't. Give people a second chance. Don't give people a third chance.
  • opajee
    opajee Posts: 69
    Go for it. Dream big! And keep working out and loving yourself.
  • liog
    liog Posts: 347 Member
    Stay at home and go to school instead of running off with Mr. Ex.
  • noogie98
    noogie98 Posts: 452 Member
    getting married 4 days after your 18th birthday was not a cool thing to do ~ the guy was a complete loser!! Stay in school, finish & get your degree. Yes, it really is THAT important, and NO, it would not be the end of the world calling off the wedding the day before!!!! :wink:

    Trust in yourself before you place your trust in others!!!!!!!
  • KJVBear33
    KJVBear33 Posts: 628
    Get with the program and lose the weight now while you are young..........not that I am too old to lose the fat, but I hear when you get up there in age it gets harder to lose the weight.......
  • JenAiMarres
    JenAiMarres Posts: 743 Member
    Enjoy your 17 y/o body while u have it and stop obsessing over it to the point of reclusiveness!!!

    Youth is truly wasted on the young!!!!
  • lisa28115
    lisa28115 Posts: 17,271 Member
    Stay at home and go to school instead of running off with Mr. Ex.


    definitely this!!!
  • jenj1313
    jenj1313 Posts: 898 Member
    Love yourself first.
  • Nopedotjpeg
    Nopedotjpeg Posts: 1,805 Member
    "Go lose weight and get laid god dammit!"
  • SilverStrychnine
    SilverStrychnine Posts: 413 Member
    Keep ya legs shut and lay off the junk food!

    I was a bit of a slut back then :ohwell:
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    invest in Apple, keep an eye out for Google and for frack sakes finish that History paper early so that when Cherise spends the night while your parents are away and keep coming out to "talk" to you in less and less sleep wear you don't waste the evening on that fracking paper!!!!! .

    Other then that I would tell him to work out more, cuz I can kick the crap out of 17 year old me and that is just sad.
  • rbeatty63
    rbeatty63 Posts: 132
    Ignore your critics. Learn to lead your heart, then follow your dreams. Be kind to everybody (including yourself), you never know how wounded a person may be. Don't go to the watermelon stand ...
  • femmi1120
    femmi1120 Posts: 473 Member
    "Guess what?? Fad diets don't work!"
  • mab33
    mab33 Posts: 242 Member
    I would have told myself I wasn't fat and to stop starving myself. 117 is totally acceptable for a person my height.

    Also, I would have warned myself that you never have life figured out and that plans constantly change.
  • Natx83
    Natx83 Posts: 1,298 Member
    Don't borrow money from the bank for your first car and second, just get a motorbike, way faster and cheaper. Listen to your parents... They know heaps more than you ever will. Get ripped now and maintain rather than start when your 28 lol
  • Kenzietea2
    Kenzietea2 Posts: 1,132 Member
    Don't date that one guy, he's a jerk and you shouldn't tie yourself down senior year with a boy anyway!
  • CountDown321
    CountDown321 Posts: 117 Member
    Wow so many things. Stop eating so damned much and learn some self control. Also, pick a better and actually useful major so your bachelor's degree isnt nearly useless.
  • 1Timothy4v8
    1Timothy4v8 Posts: 503 Member
    I would say "girl you aren't fat, sh** you don't know what fat is, but you will, ohhhh you will" then maybe I will have scared myself into dropping the burger
  • paletendril
    paletendril Posts: 24
    You are most certainly not fat but believing you are will make that come true. Oh, and the number of friends you have means nothing at all, it's the quality that counts.
  • MUByM
    MUByM Posts: 208
    Don't listen to your mom about going to a community college!! Follow your dream to become an architect and go to Cal Poly!!!! Also, stop being so damn shy and speak up! People will love you because you have a great personality! :flowerforyou:
  • shadowkitty22
    shadowkitty22 Posts: 495 Member
    Well assuming my 17 year old self would have listened to the current me, I would've told myself to shape up sooner and get my weight and lifestyle under control NOW and not let me get as big as I am now. I'm sure that my life would've been different than it is now because I probably would have had more self confidence if I had a better body image of myself. But of course, then I wouldn't have met my husband and had my two kids and then found this lovely website full of supportive people.
  • dadoffo
    dadoffo Posts: 379 Member
    Buy stocks from Yahoo. Facebook, Microsoft, Apple etc...
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