You and Yourself Ten Years Ago

[punk'n]

I'm 27 and I'd tell my 17-year-old self to keep doing what you're doing. Life gets real boring after college.

[BitchyBecky]

I would tell my 7 year old self to beat the hell out of those kids on the playground. And also to maybe to go get clothes that didn't look that horrible. Oh. And not to get that goddamned stomach flu... it makes you fat ten years down the road.

[RachaelBachael]

I'm 22. I'd tell my 12 year old self that there is life after middle school and there's more to life than being in the "cool group" (and half the cool group have fucked their lives up by the time they're 22 anyway).

[da_ticklah]

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would tell 26 yr old self

Sell the stock and buy the 3 series BMW that stock shit ends poorly.
Quit putting your dick in crazy bitches.
Quit talking to crazy bitches.
In 9 yrs double down on the Ford stock and skip and skip GM or buy GE when it's in the low teens instead

[Donalbain]

I would tell my 12 year old self to be tough for my mom through her hardships. I would tell myself to keep your head on right, things will get better.

[Ansur]

I would tell my 25 year old self about those two girls that told me years later they had been thinking about a 3-way and told him to go for it. Then I would have told him to finish college so I wouldn't have to be dealing with that shit now. Then I would punch him because 25 year old Ansur was kind of an asshole and he'd say something that made me want to punch him.

[Kydizzle]

Originally Posted by lattaland

I probably wouldn't have listened to my future self anyway.

there is a great episode of Xavier: Renegade Angel where he comes back from the future to help his younger self, but his younger self just sees this terrifying creepy dude who has no idea what he is talking about, which in turn alters his present self memory and causes his entire self-being to collapse in an endless loop of more and more less recognizable visitors from the future.

And then, in classic That's So Raven! style, knowing the future creates a self-fullfiling prophecy where exactly what you were trying to prevent comes true, and only because of the encounter you had with your future self.

It's the fucked up part of time-travel. But, if I could go back to my ten year old self and give him the what-for, I'd disguise myself as a homeless man and try to sell myself crack. If 10 year old me buys it, what a fucking story to tell when I kick the habit (my testimonial will be SO STRONG!) and if I don't buy it, life goes on, and I got to travel to the past! What a fucking story to tell!

I CAN'T LOSE!

(I wouldn't actually sell my 10 year old self crack, I'd probably just tell him that Star Trek isn't really all that great, but it's okay, you'll value the encyclopedic knowledge of the series later)

[picard102]

Don't try so hard with chicks, try harder with life. Tone down the Star Trek shit.

[TeddyPicker]

I would have tried to explain to 10 year old Teddy that you're not going to get in with the popular crowd and start accepting the actual you earlier. You should have focused more and studied from the start so it wouldn't take you so long to catch up later.

Oh and I would have warned her about upcoming puberty and armed her with some deodorant, a cute hairstyle, and the number of the Russian waxing lady down the road.

[blondeinred]

I would tell my 27 year old self that you are better off dead and that you were an incompetent looser by not finishing the job off properly when you were 26