If you could go back and tell your teenage self one piece of advice...

[Roxas1359]

Really it depends in what time.
Most likely though I would tell myself either one of these two things: one, you're bipolar so go to get it under control now (been a real pain this year for me); two, convince your parents not to spend as much money so that you'll not be in the financial situation that you'll be in later.

 

[IJHTL]

"Don't be such a dick. Everyone doesn't suck, you don't know everything and you need to actually work to get somewhere in life."

Although to be honest, I'd probably just punch myself.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[RastaBadger]

Don't spend your time wondering if you would still come back and tell yourself this if I hadn't come back and told you this in the first place.
Edit: Also work harder.
Edit 2: Also take the advice in that xkcd comic. If you don't know the one I'm talking about just apply this to most of them.
Edit 3: When you get around to making a post about this don't do it in 3 edits.

 

[Guardian of Nekops]

Um...

"Don't commit too readily to the girls you date. I KNOW everybody else is telling you this, and that the rest of life feels a bit... vague and pointless, but somewhere in between your relationships being disposable and basically a way to use women for sex and attention (which I know you've been trying like hell to avoid) and making the success of your relationship your one goal in life, that thing that you HAVE to do else all is meaningless, is a happy medium. Probably. Let the girl earn your trust, in addition to your affection, before you sacrifice too much for her, or you're going to crash. Hard. More than once. You poor bastard."

You know what, scratch that. Could I age 30 years or so, and then come back to myself NOW and tell me that?

 

[Teoes]

-snip-

That avatar is mesmerising..

OT: I'm surprised only a couple of other people have said this, but nothing. There's been good times, great times, bad times and shit times; but it's all worked out in the end so far and it has all made me who I am today. I wouldn't want to change one thing seemingly for the better for it to turn round and rob me of something awesome in my life.

 

[Guardian of Nekops]

How to build the time machine. Seriously, none of you guys stabilised the time loop, so you're going to write your future selves out of existence for the jerk you were in the past? Screw that guy!

Psh. MY time loop is plenty stable as is. I won't listen, which I'll regret. Then, since I figured the time machine out once, I'll do it again and go back to encourage myself.

Then I'll go way back and like, ride a dinosaur or something. It'll probably erradicate all of human history when the bacteria I bring back outcompete what we needed to survive, but whatever. Totally worth it.

 

[Dangit2019]

And that L word? Steer clear of it. Forever.

Lesbian?

 

[Dangit2019]

Buy stock in Apple.

(sigh) read the prompt...

 

[Agayek]

The one piece of advice I could give to myself in early high school? Talk my dad into getting checked for colon cancer as often as I can feasibly manage since he ended up diagnosed with it at the beginning of my senior year and it was too late to treat it effectively.

Other than that, I really don't have anything to say to my younger self. I'm happy where I'm at and I really don't have any regrets. I might give a suggestion to buy up as much of Google as possible at their IPO, but other than that, I've got no ideas.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I am my teenage self .

But thereotically, if I was an adult and had the option to give my >13 year old self some advice;
-Don't blindly trust every piece of info. that your family gives you.
-Don't be so bloody naive.
-DO NOT BE 100% HONEST; DAT S*** WILL COME BACK TO BITE YOU IN THE ASS.

 

[Wolfeyes555]

Stop being so insecure about everything. Shutting yourself out from everyone is not the way to live your life. Trust me, I'm still trying to get over that till this day.

 

[Guardian of Nekops]

And that L word? Steer clear of it. Forever.

Lesbian?

Love, I'd imagine. And yeah... it can cause a lot of problems. Especially when you mean it.

More the feeling and the commitment than the actual word, of course, but... yeah. Not something for young kids to mess around with, as patronising as that sounded when the wise people told me that.

 

[GmonXyZ]

Learn Python; PHP is a waste of time and energy.

 

[Dangit2019]

And that L word? Steer clear of it. Forever.

Lesbian?

Love, I'd imagine. And yeah... it can cause a lot of problems. Especially when you mean it.

More the feeling and the commitment than the actual word, of course, but... yeah. Not something for young kids to mess around with, as patronising as that sounded when the wise people told me that.

Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't being serious, rather I was making a crappy Scott Pilgrim reference.

 

[Agayek]

There are entirely too many people in this thread with massive lists of regrets and missed opportunities.

What the hell happened to carpe diem?

 

[Shakomaru]

Look kid, just be more sure of yourself and make sure nobody pushes you around, ok? and Make sure you know who your friends are.

 

[Manoose47]

Pull your head out of your ass, you slacker.

ah, i cant give my teenage self advice i still don't take myself... so instead i will offer myself some rollover jackpot super million dollar lotto numbers.

 

[Manoose47]

my advice would be, here are all the winning lotto numbers.

zing!

 

[Guardian of Nekops]

Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't being serious, rather I was making a crappy Scott Pilgrim reference.

Figured it had to be tongue-in-cheek, didn't recognize the reference.

My point still stands, though.

There are entirely too many people in this thread with massive lists of regrets and missed opportunities.

What the hell happened to carpe diem?

*Shrugs.*

We didn't. Or we went overboard grasping for the wrong days, destroying what we should have been working for in our eagerness.

Nothing wrong with a bit of reflection... often, the sorts of mistakes you made before are the same ones you're prone to now. Doesn't do to dwell, obviously, but a few minutes of careful thought are a good thing.