If you could contact your past self, what would you say?

[girljen]

^ Exactly what it says on the tin.

 

If you could go back in time and contact a past self, either in person or by sending correspondence across the spacetime continuum, when would you go and what would you say?

[I-Jo]

"don't fuck around with Frank"

 

Join the military like you wanted.

 

Don't get that CC. 

 

Be awesome- be fabulous and fuck everyone else's opinion.

[rx'drobot]

Don't linger in bad jobs, relationships, or other situations.

 

Get off your butt and work out, you won't only look better... you'll feel better too.

[Omega v1.1]

Stop doing that, it'll fall off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What?! I was just trying to balance my water bottle on the edge of my desk and it fell on the floor. Get your minds out of the gutter!

 

 

 

 

Also, go to university when you have the chance, you'll definitely get a better job than the one you'll otherwise end up with.

[WizardTrip]

Put down that fork.

 

Start lifting...now!

 

Be more confident with the ladies.

 

Enjoy the full head of hair while you have it.

[Choronodon]

There's a whole bunch of stuff I could say... unfortunately a lot of it is stuff the younger me already knew. Just didn't have the experience to really understand it before.

 

Now, if I could go back in time and put my now brain in my then body & get a do over.... hoo boy. Look out world

[bigm141414]

I'd go back and say: "Hey, it may look bad now kid, but trust me, life gets a whole lot better. Chin up yo." 

[weirdquark]

To my five year old self who got bored with ballet: yes, you do want to take jazz or tap instead.

 

To my high school self who was doing weight training using machine circuits: stick with the weights and get someone to show you how to use a barbell, I'm pretty sure I saw some free weights hiding in the back.

 

To my just started lifting self: don't try to lose weight. If you're spending time tracking calories, figure out how to eat at maintenance and focus on adding weight to the bar.

[KingZora]

To pretty much every age of me ever... "You just finished a season of <soccer, track, swimming, etc.>, you're in good god damn shape, stop ruining that every summer!"

 

Also, "people aren't constantly judging you, be awesome for yourself, not for them." That one took me much too long to realize.

[WizardTrip]

I'd go back and say: "Hey, it may look bad now kid, but trust me, life gets a whole lot better. Chin up yo." 

 

For me....eventually that would be true depending on the year I go back. I guess mine would simply take the approach all the really annoying people who have actually read the GoT books are always saying that make me want to slap them:

 

"It's gets worse before it gets better"

 

But the end result is the same....it gets better.

[Guest Dirty Deads]

I don't think anything I would say would make a difference. I thought I knew it all then and any information I gave myself would have gone in one ear and out the other. Any money making tips would have made me get fatter than I am now because I'd  just go out to eat.

 

I guess if I could tell myself anything it would be about lower carbs.

[RisenPhoenix]

Oof, a couple things come to mind.

 

"Don't stop the martial arts.  Seriously, big mistake.  Change schools, styles, schedules.  But keep going."

 

"Look into all the grants for college.  All of them.  Yes, you can pay right now, but you're dropping literally half of your salary to get them over with.  Less fun."

 

and most importantly: "Don't take failure so hard.  It happens, accept it, learn from it, and move on."

[girljen]

To my high school self:  Stop being ridiculous.  You do not need ALL THE ATTENTION.  And besides, even if you did, you should know by now that the best way to have a friend is to be one.

 

To my early 20s self:  Be more ridiculous.  Now it's time for you to live with reckless abandon!  You will make mistakes...so you better make them count.    Also, now would be a great time to hang out with your mom, as you two will get along *famously* for a few years before her health and mental state decline.

 

To myself on January 1, 2011:  You poor thing.  I'm so sorry.  This is going to be the hardest year of your life.  First comes surgery (which sucks, but you'll be fine), then your friend will die, then your mom will die, then your twin brother will go to Costa Rica, then you'll break your foot, then you'll get soul cancer from your godawful job, then you'll get divorced, then your former paramedic partner will have a stroke and end up in the ICU, and then you'll run out of money.  But!  I have advice:  Make friends with the neighbor in 113, he's good people and he will watch your animals.  Use a backpack and a messenger bag to take laundry down to the laundry room when your foot is broken.  Clip grocery bags to your crutches with a carabiner to get them upstairs.  Drive Mom's Kia; you'll end up keeping it, which sucks, but that thing runs and you can drive it with a cast..  I also have good news:  It gets better--WAY better.  In 2012, everything changes.  You get a new home, new job (amazeballs!), new love, new outlook on love thanks to him, new financial situation, and so on.  In 2013, all the stuff that changed then improves.  It's pretty awesome.  STICK IT OUT.

[cline]

I like the talking to multiple stages of self:

 

Little kid self:  it's not okay that everyone in the family makes fun of you and it's okay that it hurts.  You'll grow past this - you at least you need to because you'll be pretty awesome later and awesome because of this. 

 

Junior high self:  asthma does not have to keep you from playing sports.  Go play soccer.  You'll love it.  And keep playing softball and riding your bike no matter what.  You love it too much.  And yeah, it's wrong that you don't have a horse.  So wrong.  And so unfair. 

 

High school self:  frankly, you rock.  Honestly.  You are smart, you have lots of boy dates, lots of friends, go to all the badass parties, you have great hobbies, you are well rounded, you have great life goals.  You are awesome.  You don't know it.  Your family massively sucks, your mother is beyond mentally ill (really) and they are bad people.  Don't let them pay for college.  Move out on your own and never go back.  You'll do fine.  And you know you will.  Pack.  Now.

 

College self:  you rock.  Quit thinking about law school or working for the feds.  And what's up with joining the young republicans frosh year?  How long did that last you freaky liberal? But seriously, quit thinking about law school.  STOP IT!  Man you are wasting time on that law school nonsense.  Oh and yeah, student government is really that awesome.  You are making really good choices.  Keep it up.  

 

10 years ago self:  quit academics. Run.  Never go back.  Run.  Fast.

 

Yesterday self:  go visit with your high school self. 

[goodbyeharrison]

Don't do drugs.

[Timmy M]

stop being such a whiny idiot, lift the heavy things and btw here's all the information i've ver garnered from training, go be the best goddamn PT there is 

 

P.S.  4 - 5 - 13 - 27 - 35: 1 - 2 get this euromillions ticket before the 25th of june 2013

[Tech_Hunter]

Quit looking elsewhere so desperately for love that you aren't getting from your parents, all it gets you is pregnant young.

 

Figure out what YOU want to do, not what the people around you think you might be just smart enough for.

 

Getting married at 19 is stupid.  (I've been married for 19 years, but let's be honest, it was stupid).

 

Keep that body you have from martial arts, you will come to appreciate it.

 

Live on your own, go to the local college and do something you love.

 

TRAVEL, you loved it!

[Ensi]

To my younger self: You don't have to be perfect. Seriously. I know you try so hard to be perfect because you have no friends and you are ignored, but it will get better. Keep drawing, you love that and you will make some money with your comics one day! And put that chocolate away. I know it comforts you, but it will put you through a lot of trouble.

You don't also need anyone's permission to be great. If your friends aren't good in some school subjects, it's not your problem, and pretending that you're just as bad isn't going to get you friends. 

I know you'd like to have a boyfriend, but... err, sorry girl, but you'll meet a few young men who will make you think that you will never ever date again. One of them will hurt you expecially bad, but you'll learn that he was a depressed young boy, who wanted you to be something that you aren't. Just concentrate on being you. You're great.

And hey, lift heavy weights! You'll love that. And don't believe everything that others tell you. No one here is perfect.

[Thrillho]

On your 15th birthday, you will be given a brand-new heavybag, complete weight set with bench, and a copy of 'Getting Stronger' by Bill Pearl.

 

Around your 16th birthday, you will discover than the internet has porn on it.

 

You are going to pick one of these to dedicate your life to, and you're going to pick wrong. 

 

And then I will start bitch-slapping him.

[JessOfAllTrades]

Go study abroad. You can make it work, no matter what your advisor says. You're going to regret not going when it was so easy to pull off.

 

Things get better after sophomore year - promise. And I would love to tell you not to get into that relationship senior year, but it does work out in the long run, and it's going to bring you to Texas. Seriously. You're going to live in Texas for a few years and think it's a wonderful life experience. That might be tough to wrap your brain around, Jersey girl.

 

Take more time to explore your options. Having your career picked before you go to college doesn't mesh with our ENFP type personality and that narrow focus is going to cause a quarter-life crisis.

 

For the love of God, take Spanish. You're going to need it in the field of Education.

[bigm141414]

Go study abroad. You can make it work, no matter what your advisor says. You're going to regret not going when it was so easy to pull off.

 

Things get better after sophomore year - promise. And I would love to tell you not to get into that relationship senior year, but it does work out in the long run, and it's going to bring you to Texas. Seriously. You're going to live in Texas for a few years and think it's a wonderful life experience. That might be tough to wrap your brain around, Jersey girl.

 

Take more time to explore your options. Having your career picked before you go to college doesn't mesh with our ENFP type personality and that narrow focus is going to cause a quarter-life crisis.

 

For the love of God, take Spanish. You're going to need it in the field of Education.

 

 

 

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[JessOfAllTrades]

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Houston was a swell little city. Might be biased though after a year in College Station.

[alienjenn]

All those people telling you that you can do it are right... and exercise feels good and won't kill you...

And you are sexy

please forgive typos and such... autocorrect is not my friend and my phone is a goofball.... gotta love tapatalk!

[LadyFenix]

To myself at all stages: YOU WILL NOT DIE,  JUST TRY IT ALREADY.  (I have an anxiety disorder, I have to psych myself up, sometimes for months,  to try anything new or different because everything makes me nervous.)  

[shortstuff]

I would tell my high school self to talk to boys in my grade as little as possible, not at all if possible because they only be mean, and the group of girls I became friends with in year 8, all except one with turn out to be bitches, that one that doesn't turn out to be a bitch, stop hanging around the other girls and make sure she comes too.