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Enjoy your last few years of baseball. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself that you feel the need to run hills after committing an error. Spend time before each game reminding yourself why you love the game so much. You will miss the game more than you know and you will regret not savoring every inning of every game for the right reasons.
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Be kind to everyone, but don’t let people take advantage of your kindness. Especially keep your guard up around girls that mistake your kindness for something more (when involved with another girl). It will only bite you in the ass if you don’t.
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
I ended up beating up somebody very close to me which I regret to this very day. [/quote]
Does she forgive you?
In all seriousness, I was a complete knucklehead 10 years ago. And 10 years from now I’ll probably think the current me is a knucklehead.
I’ll go back to 16 years old, since 10 years ago would put me at almost 14 years old and nothing important is going on in life at that point.
I would tell my 16 year old self to:
- Invest your money. I didn’t spend it anyway.
- Lift more consistently and eat healthier. I ate a lot and it was moderately healthy, but I could have done better.
- Should have dated that one girl instead of the other. Missed out on that one.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
- You have less true friends than you think you do.[/quote]
Dear God, I just learned this one in great detail.
VALUE those people that truly stick with you through the hard times…and realize that everyone else is nothing more than an “associate”. Keep it that way and life will be way happier.
I’d rather half 4 Quarters than 100 pennies
Tried and true friends do NOT comes in 12 packs.[/quote]
Don’t date girls who wipe back to front
So I know it says 10 years but I’m 27 now and I’d like to go back to when I was 15 because there were so many life changing events that had happened that if I had handled them correctly I’m pretty sure Id be a god at this point. So to me 12 years ago.
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Fight John. You wrestled with him once and it changed the dynamics of the family situation, but wrestling/throwing each other around is not a fight. Force that mother fucker to punch you directly in the jaw, and do the same to him…
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You’re family is going through a very difficult patch in life. Step up to the plate and be the man they need. This is not a time to selfishly think about yourself and the ways that this situation is allowing your life to be easier. Because everyone else’s life sucks because of it…and trust me 15 year old me…you will pay dearly for this in every facet of life. (and I believe i did/am).
2a) You’re sisters are at an incredibly influenced time in their life…Become the man they need to have in their life and it will pay fucking x392023432 in every other aspect of your own life. -
YOU might be the toughest person in your high school(or you think you are) consisting of 5,000 middle class white people. But you’re a fucking drop in the bucket to the rest of society.
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School is incredibly important. Try to figure out how to get into the ap/advanced classes, not ways to get into the dumb classes…You fucking idiot.
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Just because some fucking hippies in school believe that the sat’s are a waste of time doesn’t mean that the administration offices at the colleges you want to apply to do. So again spend as much time as you can education yourself and do the right thing.
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Eat fucking breakfast dude…an instant carnation shake is not breakfast. Oh and punch whichever stupid mother fucker that told you eggs were bad for you.
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Being an asshole/tough guy might get some laughs from your friends and bail them out of situations that they got themselves into…but you’re going to burn a lot more bridges that way. (especially with women)
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You/and your teammates and friends literally have one of the best school athletics trainer in the country. (that’s actually no joke she was fucking way ahead of her time) Listen to everything she says and follow it to a T.
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The harder you work now the easier the future will be
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You might know that your Grandmother is the most important person in your life…but your actions and lack of communications does not convey that to her. Tell her how important she is to you and your family every time you get the chance, because unfortunately very soon, you wont ever get it again.
I’ve fucked up a lot and can think of another at least 20 things I would tell my younger self but out of respect to the op here are my 10.
wow.
10 years ago, aint that long for me.
I’d tell my 39 YO self:
- Dont invest all your money in real estate
- stay working at your sucky job with the great retirement, cause you’re gettin old, and it’ll come in handy
- Don’t drink so much.
- enjoy the kids more, cause when they move out, you’ll miss them
- don’t neglect your wife, cause in the end, she’s all you got
- don’t kick yourself for all the stupid ass shit you did, it doesnt do any good, and nobody cares anymore
- go fishing more with Dad, cause he’ll be gone soon (even if you dont like to fish)
- quit catering to your older brother, he’s and ass and will always be an ass, and his wife is a C*#t
- people dont need to like you
- talk to the kids about college costs, and encourage them to just get a degree, cheapest way possible, then get a masters. don’t mortgage your future getting a music degree at some private school -
[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
I’ve fucked up a lot and can think of another at least 20 things I would tell my younger self but out of respect to the op here are my 10. [/quote]
I have a feeling you are going to be a-okay man. It might take time, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the world will be better for having you in it.
Stop spending so much time training. Go out, party and have sex, like most girls your age.
See that big guy with the glasses? He’s packed, baby girl. Stop ignoring him.
Walk pass, don’t stop while IJ gets her ass beat. She started that shit. She was fucking bullying that poor girl on a regular basis. Let her victim finally get her revenge.
Stop being a fucking perfectionist. Stop working on a particular technique over and over again.
Watch your training partner. Don’t trust her. She wants your fucking medal. She can read you very well now. Don’t fucking go easy on her. she’ll defeat you.
Don’t trust no one, not even yourself.
Grab S’ hand and pull her away from that silly argument she’s involved in.
Tell her you refuse to go with her and others to teach her ‘‘enemy’’ a lesson. Tell her that big guy with the glasses had asked you out and you didn’t tell him to go fuck himself.
Warn S’ parents that shit is about to hit the fan. Don’t go to that fucking street fight. Make sure you don’t go to that fucking streetfight. Someone’s about to lose their life. Instead, go to Big Guy’s place so you can check out his big package. You won’t regret it.
Tell your parents you love them every fucking single day. Call them every time you’re abroad, away for tournaments. Call them, every fucking single day. They may sound like pests, and a bunch of assholes and bitches, but they are your fucking damn parents.
Oh, and, in a fit of anger and exasperation, don’t tell your Sensei to go fuck himself in front of the whole dojo… he will lambast you like you never had never been lambasted. He doesn’t give a fuck you’re girl. Just don’t even try your shit with the old grey fart. Not just yet… wait another couple of years. Just wait…
Actually you know what? Say that shit to his face. You actually need your ass to be humbled right now, bitch.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
I’ve fucked up a lot and can think of another at least 20 things I would tell my younger self but out of respect to the op here are my 10. [/quote]
I have a feeling you are going to be a-okay man. It might take time, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the world will be better for having you in it. [/quote]
Most people with the ability to self reflect, realize mistakes and improve going forward have nothing to worry about. Shit will happen, they will prevail.
hmmmm
One thing I can do is go to the gym, relax about women and keep ahold of your money.
That my very formal right-wing dad made a shitload of mistakes, and that no matter how big a role model might be to you, they’re still human with weaknesses and failures.
I would say “Do NOT get back together with T… Just let.it.go.”
But, if I had and didn’t do the most a few of the most disturbing things after we broke up, I wouldn’t have met my wife.
So, I wouldn’t change a damn thing.
I would warn myself about a couple of women I would meet later, but then again; I learned valuable lessons from each of the situations I got involved with.
I have no regrets.
Every decision I have ever made was sound, level-headed, and wise, especially those involving women.
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Become the person you always knew you were. I lived most of my younger life parroting other “cool” people. As soon as the person on the outside began to reflect who I was on the inside, everything became much better.
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Video games are not therapy/escape from reality. If you treat them as such, they will become the biggest detriment in your life. Either that, or throw my Xbox out a window.
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Appreciate the value of action. After I started powerlifting at 21, I bash my head against a wall for not getting into it sooner. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but never did for some reason. Like that Emerson quote: “Do the thing and you will have the power.” Something my teenage self never learned.
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
I have no regrets.
Every decision I have ever made was sound, level-headed, and wise, especially those involving women.[/quote]
You let your dick post this time, huh?
[quote]The3Commandments wrote:
26 now, professional school student at an ivy league school, bachelors and master’s degrees.
- Stick with state schools–don’t worry about the prestige factor.
If I could do it over again, I probably wouldn’t have taken on student debt to go to an ivy league school. Although I’ll be recouping the money with my job position this fall at a pretty fast clip, I’ve honestly seriously disliked (to put it mildly) my time at the ivy. The people are, by and large, very out of touch with reality and would drive most normal people crazy.
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Im graduating this semester from a State school and my family likes to remind me of how shitty of a decision I made, this made me feel a little better.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
I have no regrets.
Every decision I have ever made was sound, level-headed, and wise, especially those involving women.[/quote]
You let your dick post this time, huh? :)[/quote]
Yeah, and it was a bitch poking the keys one at a time.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
- You have less true friends than you think you do.[/quote]
Dear God, I just learned this one in great detail.
VALUE those people that truly stick with you through the hard times…and realize that everyone else is nothing more than an “associate”. Keep it that way and life will be way happier.
Tried and true friends do NOT comes in 12 packs.[/quote]
yes