If you could go back and talk to your 18 year old self?
I’m prompted to ask this by having to think back as a result of Curmudgeons musical tag down the page. I was just thinking how I’d probably smack myself in the mouth, tell me to get a haircut, loosen up and spend more money. But I probably wouldn’t have listened.
I am a believer in everything being a positive experience, as long as you’re now in a place and situation you like, but I think there’s a few things I’d have done differently.
What would you say to you?
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I’d ask myself what advise I had for my future self.
I was horrible at 18, so a smack on the mouth from future me would of been good!
I suppose i am the same as you, would like to have done a few things differently, but put the rest down to growing up.
I would tell myself that I don’t have to have anyone’s approval to mean I’m okay. And that you are a complete person whether or not you have a man.
I think I probably would scare my 18-year-old self to death. I can hear it now… “You mean I turned out like this?!”
What a crushing disappointment it would be for him. Although I think he’d like the family….
I think you’ve nailed it Curmudgeon
Sounds like there’s a story or two there Claire.
Every word Zura, and never forget that.
And what advice would you give Pinksy?
I would tell myself not to go with my girlfriends on a car trip to CA in the summer of 1968 just to be hippy-wannabies. I also would tell myself to stay away from boys named John because some things are worth waiting for.
I would tell myself to ditch Nortel and invest in Google stocks
well that was only 4 years ago…. but I would have told myself to stop wortking and have fun. I’m thinking I still need to stop working so damn much
Stop! Think! If you do this, you will never have the life you envision for yourself. It will be worth the trip, but completely different.
Best advice of all Jon!
LOL…
I suppose I would start with “DO NOT MARRY THAT ASSHAT!”
I think that would suffice
Oh, you know what I’d say: Bo Sco Foe Joe No Croe Blow Coe Show Row
I would’ve told myself to be more involved in things other than my boyfriend (why by the way is now my husband). I really didn’t make too many friends in school, and now I wish I’d have spent more time getting to know some people. I wish I would have been more involved with some extracurricular activities.
I’d have slapped me and told myself that I didn’t have to be 100% perfect at things the first time out, and that it’s well worth trying new things and learning as I went along.
” Don’t turn left when you come out of Tiffanys” “It will say you getting your head kicked in”!
Sound advice Starrlight….
Therein lies a story Barnze?
What would be the point of saying anything? I never listened to anyone back then. (Some things never change.)
I’d have told myself to arrange another date with that beautiful ginger haired girl, because she couldn’t make the first one.
Can’t think of much aside from that…
Who was she Skytower?