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Jul 24, 2017 10:29 PM

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Try different hobbies, study more and develop new skills.
Maybe my life would not be much different but sometimes I regret for wasting time.
Jul 25, 2017 12:55 AM

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So many things.

Mostly, I'd tell her to be more courageous and leave her comfort zone.
Jul 25, 2017 12:57 AM

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*slap his stupid fucking face*
you ain't shit, quit frontin'.
*walk away*


make yourself comfortable, i'll be done in just a few decades
Jul 25, 2017 4:02 AM

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I can't express this enough... Take care of your teeth!

/My story if you're bored enough to read/
I absolutely hated the taste of mint, and that was the only kind of toothpaste we ever had. I somehow convinced myself that I could get away with brushing with only water, or not at all. By the time I was a first year in high school(16 y/o), 4 of my front teeth have half rotted away, along with so many only problems on most of the back teeth. I never smiled, and kept the talking to an absolute minimum to hide as much as I could. I even went as far as declining friends to hang out, and i'd make excuses to get out of anything that could involve me talking. One day (~21 y/o), my cheek/face is a bit puffy on my left side. I think nothing of it; it has happened once before and went away after I slept. But this time after I wake up my face is so swelled that my left eye is almost shut, so I asked my mom to take me to the emergency room. That one incident finally opened up my eyes and everyone else's around me that I needed serious help. Though-out 1 1/2 years, I've had 4 root-canals, 8 extractions, and a total of $10,000 spent. At the age of 21, any infections were removed and had 7 fake upper-front teeth put in. All of which could have been avoided.

If you made it this far, thank you. Feels good to type that out, since it had such an impact on my life. Please take care of your teeth! Once they're gone, they're gone.
Jul 25, 2017 4:24 AM

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Shoulder it all buddy, that's barely anything compared to now :')
"Only one with the courage
to shoulder the burden
of their own fate can
be called a hero.."



Jul 25, 2017 5:39 AM

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Nothing in this world is free, except good advice.

Helpful, I know. However I don't think I got anything to manipulate bad RNG. Also my past self is a lot more rational person than the present me anyway.
Jul 25, 2017 6:12 AM

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Probably to hold onto my friends more strongly- it's very easy to end up lonely.

Also anything that would help me get money of course (lottery numbers, stocks, etc.)


Jul 25, 2017 6:17 AM

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No matter how difficult it is to show up at school, please do it.
Jul 25, 2017 7:36 AM

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"Religion is a bunch of bull. Stop." "Don't trust anyone."

"Maybe he's trying to take a shit, but the shit just won't come out."
Captain Levi, 2014
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Jul 25, 2017 8:29 AM

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"Please just fucking do your homework, it will make your life a lot easier in the future"





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Jul 25, 2017 8:34 AM
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Exercise... just please do it. It's not that hard.
Jul 25, 2017 9:03 AM

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The LAQ on the Biochem End of semester exam is about beta oxidation, don't fuck up.

lmao jokes.

I probably would have told myself to never install steam, cuz that shit wasted many many hours of my life which I could have used productively.
Aug 2, 2017 3:09 AM

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Don't miss opportunities just because you feel insecure. Everything you do for yourself is worth it.



Aug 2, 2017 3:49 AM

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"Drink more milk and sleep early so I'll grow taller!"


I was nothing until the moment I met you.

Aug 2, 2017 5:44 AM

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I'd say to myself "go on a long journey without any plans ahead, experience what it feel to be alive again".

However, after i told myself that, I still need to face the reality of, house loan, car loan, etc.
I just can't...
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Aug 3, 2017 3:06 PM

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GO TO BALLET CLASS. Your scoliosis is fucking up your body, you need to fix your posture!

...Plus you're gay and you might meet a cute girl!

Also don't take precalculus, you don't need it for your degree and you're going to get an F for it because we both know I'm terrible at math.

And learn an instrument!
Aug 3, 2017 5:20 PM

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ill tell myself that my online time has been a complete waste and that i should stop doin whatever im doing online and go ask some random girl out regardless of the consequences
lots of music -
Aug 3, 2017 5:21 PM
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AniAmber said:
I would smile, kneel down, and say.. "It gets worse."

Ah yes, this. That's a good advice. XD
"Enjoy school. It gets worse!"
Aug 3, 2017 5:42 PM

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I'd lean down to little me and say...

Learn website creation....

Create MAL...

Someone called peanutbutters will make a thread at "Jul 23, 7:15 AM"

Turn everyones Avatars into Butts.

...and now we wait *Eyes narrow* ¬_¬
Aug 3, 2017 6:31 PM

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Don't let the internet or news outlets tell you how to think. That's why we have books :D

Which reminds me, choose the books you want to read because you're interested in them, not because you like them since everyone wants you to read it.
Aug 3, 2017 8:50 PM

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Enjoy yourself and experience more, don't let fear gets in your way of what you want to do.
Aug 3, 2017 9:34 PM

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would probably say

"please jusT Shut Your MOUTH"

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)dont hate me cause you aint me( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Aug 3, 2017 9:52 PM

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Jan 2017
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stop using that word online
oh no
oh no what are you doing?
DONT POST YOUR PICTURE ONLINE
STOP
NO DONT USE EX DEE
GET OFF OF THE COMPUTER WHERE IS MY MOTHER
Aug 8, 2017 4:34 PM
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Watch more anime and read more manga.
Aug 15, 2017 8:19 PM

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Don't pursue an IT/Programming degree: you'll fail an entire semester, take 5 years to finish it when most people take 2, and make no friends/meet no girls from it, hate everyone in it, and end up suicidally depressed after you graduate. You want to be an artist/graphic designer, pursue that instead.
Aug 15, 2017 8:31 PM

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Lost_Viking said:
Don't pursue an IT/Programming degree: you'll fail an entire semester, take 5 years to finish it when most people take 2, and make no friends/meet no girls from it, hate everyone in it, and end up suicidally depressed after you graduate. You want to be an artist/graphic designer, pursue that instead.


wot happened? was it very difficult?
Is this where you live?

Aug 15, 2017 8:35 PM

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stay in school and get good grades
stay in school and get good grades
stay in school and get good grades
BAKA
Aug 15, 2017 8:55 PM

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peanutbutters said:
Lost_Viking said:
Don't pursue an IT/Programming degree: you'll fail an entire semester, take 5 years to finish it when most people take 2, and make no friends/meet no girls from it, hate everyone in it, and end up suicidally depressed after you graduate. You want to be an artist/graphic designer, pursue that instead.


wot happened? was it very difficult?

The difficulty varied, sometimes it was really easy and other times it was excruciatingly hard and neither was enjoyable and there were times I actually cheated on tests. The semester I failed was one were I took exclusively online classes and I don't have the discipline for that. Also, I hated it because everyone there was either a middle-aged man/soccer mom looking for a higher paying job or a neckbeard; no attractive girls. I know people who work in that field (my dad included) and they hate it and the retarded office politics that come with it and it's going to be automated or outsourced in 10-20 years anyway.

But now I'm an art/graphic design major and I'm really enjoying it, so things did get better, just wish I didn't piss away 5 years of my life on something I hated.
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Aug 15, 2017 9:32 PM

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To get a neuro-psych evaluation sooner.

I think I just literally didnt know what I needed in order to know what was actually wrong with me for so long... caused so much hardship.
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Aug 16, 2017 2:01 AM

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Just like others, I would tell myself to study more instead of being content with mediocre Results.
Also, I would tell myself to be more courageous and to think Things more through before ending something.

iLya said:
"Drink more milk and sleep early so I'll grow taller!"
Unfortunately, that's a Fairy Tale. Your Height is pretty much predestined by your Genes. You should rather tell your old Self that no Matter the Height, you will stay very attractive to lots of People.
Aug 16, 2017 2:02 AM

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"Quit being a hermit and go fucking do something in college"
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
-Walt Whitman

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Aug 16, 2017 9:12 PM

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Date that scumbag again and dump him at the proper time.
Go see a Chinese doctor sooner.

Try studying a little bit freshman year so you don't tank and struggle like hell with GPA pull ups for the entire next year.
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Aug 17, 2017 11:15 AM

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Your father isn't just "annoying." He's an abusive dick of the highest order. Report him.
Aug 21, 2017 12:18 AM

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The people aren't like you. Don't expect people be nice like you.
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Aug 21, 2017 1:38 AM

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disable facebook, youre only going to embarass yourself
Aug 21, 2017 1:40 AM

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Don't you give up learning trumpets.
Aug 21, 2017 2:31 AM
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i would tell myself to stop watching anime before you become so addicted that you stop feeling emotions like me
Dont feel bad about anything and dont do anything to help anything because it only come back to get you stay neutral
Aug 21, 2017 2:32 AM
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I'd tell her to stop procrasinating. But she probably won't listen.
Aug 21, 2017 7:26 AM

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Study hard in school. Start getting a part time job early. Start investing bruh.

Aug 21, 2017 7:35 AM
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"Study more, think about your future, don't lay down on your back, stop slacking off you little shit"
Aug 21, 2017 9:09 AM

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To give a shit about school, stop playing and caring so much about video games and other useless shit. Don't quit playing baseball. Stop listening to your parents as if their word was gospel, but heed the advice given. Join the military.
Aug 21, 2017 9:25 AM

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Jeff said:
I can't express this enough... Take care of your teeth!

/My story if you're bored enough to read/
I absolutely hated the taste of mint, and that was the only kind of toothpaste we ever had. I somehow convinced myself that I could get away with brushing with only water, or not at all. By the time I was a first year in high school(16 y/o), 4 of my front teeth have half rotted away, along with so many only problems on most of the back teeth. I never smiled, and kept the talking to an absolute minimum to hide as much as I could. I even went as far as declining friends to hang out, and i'd make excuses to get out of anything that could involve me talking. One day (~21 y/o), my cheek/face is a bit puffy on my left side. I think nothing of it; it has happened once before and went away after I slept. But this time after I wake up my face is so swelled that my left eye is almost shut, so I asked my mom to take me to the emergency room. That one incident finally opened up my eyes and everyone else's around me that I needed serious help. Though-out 1 1/2 years, I've had 4 root-canals, 8 extractions, and a total of $10,000 spent. At the age of 21, any infections were removed and had 7 fake upper-front teeth put in. All of which could have been avoided.

If you made it this far, thank you. Feels good to type that out, since it had such an impact on my life. Please take care of your teeth! Once they're gone, they're gone.
god-damn people probably should've told you "dude, your fucking teeth are black"
Aug 21, 2017 2:14 PM

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Study harder and learn Japanese. Lose weight would also be there it took me way to long to realize that I was to fat.
Aug 21, 2017 2:27 PM
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study less be more outgoing
grades dont matter for shit
Aug 21, 2017 6:06 PM
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Don't do that. It'll be a trauma for the rest of our life...
Aug 21, 2017 6:14 PM

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Swagernator said:
To not be a dick on the people on internet.
Good advice for all. Let's make our e-communities not shitty.
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@Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian.
Aug 21, 2017 6:29 PM

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I'd tell myself to never trust anyone and learn how to take advantage of others.
Aug 21, 2017 9:49 PM

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-inject, inject for the love god INJECT FUCKING EVERYTHING. Test, Tren, HGH, ANYTHING you can get your hands on
-use your roided out body to dominate middle school/high school sports afterwards
-be outgoing and neurotypical
-NEVER touch a video game ever again
-actually pay attention in class
Aug 21, 2017 11:40 PM

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Lay off on those extra cups of rice, even if your mom is not pleased.



"... Because when you live in this world of my closed eyes...
... Being alone is very lonely..."
.


Aug 21, 2017 11:55 PM

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Probably just to hold onto the friendships I'll end up making. Don't drift off from them.

Also... maybe avoid a certain someone I wish I never met yetalone got acquainted with.


“Don’t just mindlessly judge people as you please.” – Rin Okumura
“Your past shouldn’t stop you from achieving your goals and dreams.” – Rin Okumura
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