If you could go back 10 years...

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  • moran1917
    moran1917 Posts: 1,133 Member
    don't get your PhD, go get a good job now with your master's. By the time you finish the PhD the world will be in a mass recession and you won't find work that pays well or has benefits. Also have kids, cause in 10 years you will be regretting not having a family yet.
  • B21goddess
    B21goddess Posts: 35
    I would have ate healthier,I would not have become bulimic which has tore my life apart and still battling today.
    5'4
    HW-200
    LW-100
  • catpow2
    catpow2 Posts: 206 Member
    Wow so many things I'd tell my 10 year younger self:

    1) Buying house #1 was one of the best decisions you ever made--10 years from now it'll be worth 3 times what you paid for it.
    2) Buying house #2 will also be good idea too--it'll be a nightmare to renovate it but it'll be worth it.
    3) Go back to grad school right NOW. Don't wait a few more years. Start working toward that 2nd career you're contemplating right now; and finally,
    4) Don't stop watching your diet and exercising! In 10 years, you won't believe how skinny you used to be!!
  • Elf_Princess1210
    Elf_Princess1210 Posts: 895 Member
    Move to San Antonio. Your soulmate only lives 45 mins away.
  • _Bob_
    _Bob_ Posts: 1,487 Member
    start school now and get out of sales!
  • carenj1990
    carenj1990 Posts: 27 Member
    I would change my career choices.
  • Once you turn your life to God (when your 18) Do not look back, for the love of Peace do not glorify your old life!, it will take more effort to turn the second time then did the first!
  • Lane1012
    Lane1012 Posts: 211 Member
    If you had a magic capsule and could go back 10 years.. you grab yourself at the shoulders look into your face and yell....???

    In 2004 put it all on the Sox to win the series!!
  • I wouldn't take the pill to go back 10 yrs. I love my life the way it is, including all the bumps in the roads that got me here! =)
  • XxYeaIrocxX
    XxYeaIrocxX Posts: 224 Member
    Considering i'd be 12. I guess tell myself nysync or whatever boy band I was into then was a bunch of sissy that I'd be embarrassed to mention I was a fan of in the future?


    lame i know but I was a quiet little 12 yr old lol
  • Guisma
    Guisma Posts: 215
    Dont think so much about what others think of you and ...., dont care for people that doesnt deserve and stop smoking drugs
  • clydethecat
    clydethecat Posts: 1,087 Member
    get a new psych doc, there is no reason to spend another 5 years getting medical advice from someone that does not care about your well being. stand up for yourself and do not take the depakote, you will gain 100 lbs.

    oh and ben and jerrys should be a once and a while treat, not an every night pity party...
  • AuddAlise
    AuddAlise Posts: 723 Member
    To my 20 y/o self : Being pregnant does NOT mean you're eating for 2 whole people. You only need about 100-200 calories more a day.
  • Don't. Eat. Those. Sweets.
  • Gunnarbear
    Gunnarbear Posts: 186
    If you had a magic capsule and could go back 10 years.. you grab yourself at the shoulders look into your face and yell....???

    Don't get married, it's a nightmare!!!!!!!!!

    This ^^^^^^^
  • DrJackson6
    DrJackson6 Posts: 156 Member
    He will slowly become an *kitten*. Leave now!!!
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    Save more of the money you made and go get a new job before you get laid off from this one.
  • JConstine
    JConstine Posts: 69
    "You're not anywhere near fat."
  • bluefox9er
    bluefox9er Posts: 2,917 Member
    ask for the divorce,quit smoking,give up the corporate life, start travelling and take up RUNNING...

    (and buy as many shares in apple as you can afford)
  • jcm529
    jcm529 Posts: 36
    I just turned 30 last week so this has been on my mind.

    I would say don't join myspace or facebook. Neither of them are worth the heartache you feel comparing yourself to others.
    Don't wait so long to see a doctor about your mental health.
    The grass on the other side is never as green as it appears and usually its just full of weeds.
    Be content with who you are and who you will become.
  • JConstine
    JConstine Posts: 69
    "Hurry and invent that Dorito taco shell you've been dreaming about as a kid. Taco Bell will beat you to it."
  • dsckrc
    dsckrc Posts: 194 Member
    start exercising now and don't stop! don't waste the next 10 years being out of shape and out of energy!
  • It's easier to let go and let your kids fail in elementary school than it is to watch them still floundering after high school because you did everything for them all through school. LET GO!!!! They'll learn to be independent if you'd just let go.
  • In a few years, you'll go through a lot with a certain guy. Hang on to him. You need each other more than you know.

    Love this. ^^^
  • sofitheteacup
    sofitheteacup Posts: 396 Member
    What I would say would be totally unrelated to weight loss and this site. If I could go back to 14 year old me, I'd say stay away from cocaine because those people are not your friends and they never will be. Keep kicking *kitten* at school, and focus on you.

    How often I wonder how different my life would be.
  • Life does not end after divorce. You will fall in love again and remarry and relocate and live an abundant life in every way.
  • Tristis
    Tristis Posts: 288 Member
    You need a magic pill for that? I did it without one.
  • coraliethomas
    coraliethomas Posts: 336 Member
    Im loving the responses!!
  • heyghoge
    heyghoge Posts: 153 Member
    Considering i'd be 12. I guess tell myself nysync or whatever boy band I was into then was a bunch of sissy that I'd be embarrassed to mention I was a fan of in the future?


    lame i know but I was a quiet little 12 yr old lol

    nawwwwww in ten years you can be an ironic hipster, ironically enjoying the hell out of backstreet boys. it's all good
  • hailzp
    hailzp Posts: 903 Member
    I would tell myself that eating my feelings will no help and will make you feel worse in the future. Also stop thinking everything is your fault.