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Originally Posted by katyg
Hello all
Hope you're all doing well, haven't posted for a long time. My question is one I have been contemplated over a cigarette today. If you could talk to your younger self - say 5 years ago - what would you say? What advice would give you give yourself in a marty mcfly time travelling situation? Or would you say nothing at all!?
I myself would tell myself not to take up smoking, love myself a little more and not worry so much....
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See, by five years ago, I was already getting my shit together. If I could talk to my younger self, what would really help is talking to myself like twenty-five years ago. If I could I might say stuff like:
* Stop caring what other people think. You will, soon, anyhow. But sooner is better.
* Be fearless about being who you are. I guarantee that everyone will like you way, way more than when you try to be what you're not and inevitably don't do it well.
* High school girls are fickle. They also recover fast. Stop being a gentleman and waiting for a girl who just broke up to get over it. I assure you, someone else will not scruple, and they will swoop in and hook up with the girl you like, and you will be out in the cold and the girl will be hooked up with a douchebag. The douchebag in question will usually be Fred.
* Lock up the porn. Your mom will find it, she will freak out, and you will have a miserable two weeks of suffering questions about your fetishes, and you will be forced to read misanthropic second-generation feminist tracts against pornography.
* Give up on getting drunk: it never works out well, and you don't even like it. Just smoke weed. You like it better, and you end up partying with much cooler people.
* Try to do more homework. I know it's idiotic and stupid. But the more you can prove how many hoops you can jump through, the more freedom you will win from having to jump through idiotic hoops.
* I know everyone is wearing them, but get rid of the jacket with all the zippers. You look like an enormous douche in it. Spend your money instead on the unconstructed linen jacket: trust me, "Miami Vice" is hot shit, and you will look way better.
* Stop using product in your hair. It doesn't make you look more like one of the teen cops on "21 Jump Street." It does make you look more like one of the unbelievably stereotypical teen Mexican drug dealers on "21 Jump Street."
* Go out for theater sooner than later. You will be good at it. Just don't be scared to sing loud. You actually can sing, despite what Jamie said to you. Don't believe him, he's a dick.
* Your stepdad is an asshole. I know your mom says otherwise, but she's wrong. She will realize this twenty years too late to do you any good. Trust me now. Stop listening to anything he says, especially when he says you're wrong. You're not wrong, and he will never get that.
* When you get to college, major in theater. Minor in English Lit. Trust me, it will work out better that way. Also, get certified as an English teacher right away. This will save you so much fucking time and effort over the rest of your life, you will not believe it.
* Also in college, don't stay together with Katie for so long. She's a lesbian, and won't realize it until you've been together for 5 years. Break up with her after junior year: you'll both end up happier, and you will get six kinds of laid your senior year.
* During the summer between junior and senior year, don't start smoking those clove cigarettes. They're bad for you. You won't enjoy shaking the addiction. Also, that unbroken streak of going to the gym and eating better that you'll be on that summer-- keep it going. It will really be worth your while, because it'll save you hella headaches later on.