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If your 10-year-old self could see you right now, would they be proud of you or disappointed?

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Oct 21, 6:48 AM
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So let's say I'm opening portals to the past to let your younger selves take a good look at you all. They probably all had dreams for the future, and somehow all vaguely envisioned what their adult versions would be like. But now that your own younger self get to witness your actual way of life, what do you think their reaction would be like? Would they be happy to know you've succeeded in life? Would they be disappointed by what they see? Or would they only be unimpressed by it since your life couldn't really be labeled a failure but still is pretty boring?
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Oct 21, 7:02 AM
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I hope he would be disappointed, from two points of view:

The philosophical one - never seeing yourself as sufficiently accomplished and trying to improve yourself every day even if only by 0.000001%

The realist/pessimist one - because I'm nowhere near what I always wanted to be
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Oct 21, 7:30 AM
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Incredibly disappointed because I just became lazy and didn't accomplish anything.
Oct 21, 7:32 AM
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Me 10yo would be disappointed in me nowadays because I didn't become CS:GO e-sportsman😱.

But honestly, we should never meet each other. I'm too messed up. So much stuff has happened to shape my current mind/soul. It def would be a disappointment or some kind of awkward sadness to him.

I wish we could stay kids forever. Happiness is much easier to get there. Some apple juice and chips, ninja turtles cartoon on TV, and no stress about money/responsibilities/relationships.

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Oct 21, 7:42 AM
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Surely disappointed, just like any kid with naive dreams would be.
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Oct 21, 7:52 AM
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I would probably be proud of the fact I'm able to live in and run my own home, as I was always pretty sheltered and wasn't encouraged to be independent much at all. My parents plan was for us all to live together or close by eachother. Not saying I became independent all on my own though, my sister helped a lot and some of it I did myself to help out other family members.

I probably would be sad that I never achieved much, although I don't think I really had a career planned out at 10 years old anyway? I would be devastated that my life is still restricted by the cover-up, and that my family never got a favourable outcome from the courts (it seems?)
Oct 21, 8:36 AM
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hard to say. i'm unsure if my 10-year-old self could process the depth of thought required to recognize the person we turned into. i just hope it would do enough to give him the slightest motivation to make a few better choices than i did.
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Oct 21, 9:33 AM
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Oh my 10 year old self would be incredibly disappointed. Would hate to learn this stuff about himself like that.



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Oct 21, 9:54 AM
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Oh my 10 year old self would be incredibly disappointed. Would hate to learn this stuff about himself like that.
@Nette What stuff? You are relatively normal tbh. You aren't a try hard trans, furry and nerdom stuff you like pretty normal.
Oct 21, 10:28 AM

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Probably disappointed but not really surprised. Life went down a completely different route than I thought I'd go when I was a kid. It isn't the worse but it isn't great either.

But maybe if 10 year old me saw how things turned out, she would become more chill?
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They'd probably stay away from me and hate me since I repressed a lot of my trans stuff at that age and my mental health is in such a bad spot, my younger self may just avoid me due to "looking unstable"
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Oct 21, 11:09 AM
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10 year old me lost my happy and peaceful childhood and teen-years of Soviet life...
...which was taken away from me by traitors and with the help of of the Western fuckfaces.

So, I'm still sided of making a multitude of preventive nuclear strikes to the West and burn them to ashes.
Oct 21, 11:26 AM

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@Nette What stuff? You are relatively normal tbh. You aren't a try hard trans, furry and nerdom stuff you like pretty normal.
@MissHeed

I grew up Christian so little me would not like me at all XD



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Oct 21, 11:41 AM
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@MissHeed

I grew up Christian so little me would not like me at all XD
@Nette No offenses but westerners have weird views on Christianity.

Most are Christian in name only lol.

I think introducing children to religion is weird lol
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Surely disappointed, just like any kid with naive dreams would be.
@Zarutaku Well, it also often doesn't take much to impress a kid. Now, with adult money, I have all the dumb stuff I wanted but couldn't have as a kid, so naive little me would probably think I'm cool or something.
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10 year old me lost my happy and peaceful childhood and teen-years of Soviet life...
...which was taken away from me by traitors and with the help of of the Western fuckfaces.

So, I'm still sided of making a multitude of preventive nuclear strikes to the West and burn them to ashes.
Exhumatika said:
So, I'm still sided of making a multitude of preventive nuclear strikes to the West and burn them to ashes.
Hey now, I haven't done anything to you! Please don't fantasize about killing me, it's not my fault if the Soviet Union fell. I wasn't even born.
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When I was 10, I wanted to be a world-class detective. Now, I am a comic translator.

So yeah, my ten-year-old self would be very disappointed in me. In his mind, I was supposed to be busy attending classy parties and solving the murders that happened at those parties.
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- Wow. i knew i would have never amounted to anything, but this is even darker than i could ever expect. Do you have any redeeming things? You look slightly better with dyed blond hair, but that's it. Will i actually take 29 more years to move out from mom and dad's home too? Are you still playing Star Wars and Solomon's Key from NES that for now i haven't finished yet? Damn, i seriously should have fallen off that window in '87.

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Exhumatika said:
So, I'm still sided of making a multitude of preventive nuclear strikes to the West and burn them to ashes.
Hey now, I haven't done anything to you! Please don't fantasize about killing me, it's not my fault if the Soviet Union fell. I wasn't even born.
@fleurbleue I'm a morally decent person, so I'll notify you in 24 hours when to move out.
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@fleurbleue I'm a morally decent person, so I'll notify you in 24 hours when to move out.
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I think introducing children to religion is weird lol
If you actually believe in the faith, then you would be basically condemning your progeny to hellfire by not doing it.

Anyway to respond to OP, yeah 10 and 16 year old me, would probably be deeply concerned with my loss of faith. I was always a deeply in the closet bisexual man, so 16 year old me wouldn't be surprised regardless lol. Still kinda disappointed though. Current me still kinda is.....

In terms of actual accomplishments, I don't think 10 year old me would care, 16 year old me would be disappointed though. 24 year old me though would be thrilled where I am at lol. The early 2020s were not a bright spot in my life...I think it's finally turning around though.

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I'm a morally decent person, so I'll notify you in 24 hours when to move out.
No you are not lol. Mentally unstable and sociopathic/psychopathic yes. I hope for your own sake, you are just being an edgy troll. Otherwise seek help.
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disappointed for sure but maybe my younger self can learn some coping skills and even visit a clinical psychologist fast before his schizophrenia manifest in the future and same with my bro that suffers from schizophrenia too it runs in our family
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My 10 year old self would probably think I'm sort of a big brother type of adult. Someone to look up to. But not because of real accomplishments but only because I'm older.

And he would be unimpressed. He probably thinks I'm a somewhat standard adult or something.

I would recommend my younger self specific video games though. XD

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No you are not lol. Mentally unstable and sociopathic/psychopathic yes. I hope for your own sake, you are just being an edgy troll. Otherwise seek help.
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My 10 year old self wouldn't care what I turn into.
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No you are not lol. Mentally unstable and sociopathic/psychopathic yes. I hope for your own sake, you are just being an edgy troll. Otherwise seek help.
Yes, Mom, whatever you say and makes you happy.
@Exhumatika You probably need a motherly figure in your life TBH lol.
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@Exhumatika You probably need a motherly figure in your life TBH lol.
@BilboBaggins365 It depends; is your mom under 40 and decent looking?
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10 year old me has no ambition what weird question, I was a kid dafuq.

@MissHeed your icon looks like your daughter lol. Teaching children religion is weird.
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10 year old me would be glad to see I'm still alive in the future.
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Oct 21, 6:33 PM

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I don't think when you do it was very impressive because I don't remember it.

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he’d be equal parts horrified and proud.
Where are the trophy milfs? The palace size mansion? The fleet of hypercars ?
Why is future me still dodging bills, chasing discount coupon, and getting yelled at by rent collectors?
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@BilboBaggins365 It depends; is your mom under 40 and decent looking?
@Exhumatika Why would you need such things for a motherly figure? 🤔
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I don't think when you do it was very impressive because I don't remember it.
@Sasori56483 I used my Men in Black flash thingy on you all afterwards, totally normal you have no memories of it.
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Eww, I hope my 10-year-old self never has to see me.

I'm not conquering the galaxy as he expected. But to be fair, his expectations were quite unrealistic to begin with. Like, give me some time, kiddo!
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@Exhumatika Why would you need such things for a motherly figure? 🤔

You ever read Freud? Or a certain Greek tragedy?
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@Exhumatika Why would you need such things for a motherly figure? 🤔

You ever read Freud? Or a certain Greek tragedy?
@BilboBaggins365

Can you get an Oedipus complex for someone else's mother, though? I was rather implying that he isn't looking for a motherly figure at all.🙃
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Can you get an Oedipus complex for someone else's mother, though? I was rather implying that he isn't looking for a motherly figure at all.🙃
@fleurbleue Eh...close enough in my opinion, which is all that matters.
Oct 21, 8:36 PM
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10 year old me has no ambition what weird question, I was a kid dafuq.

@MissHeed your icon looks like your daughter lol. Teaching children religion is weird.
@AmityBlight Develop your own identity before hop into things like politics or religion. Lol that's why I am using it.

OP - 10 year old me just like having fun, playing soccer or riding my bike. Doubt kid me gives a damn about future me.
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He would be disappointed and maybe even call me a slur for having sex with another man for my first time lol. It's ok I forgive you younger self.
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Disappointed I still haven't found the sauce of that obscure Albanian song that was lost in my laptop 15 years ago, regretting not uploading it sooner on MediaFire when it was now a thing and ask on Reddit about it.

If only I knew...
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If your 10-year-old self could see you right now, would they be proud of you or disappointed?

Very disappointed for multiple reasons.
Oct 22, 2:24 AM
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fleurbleue said:
Would they be disappointed by what they see?

He can always tell me to use a longer towel.
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He would be disappointed and maybe even call me a slur for having sex with another man for my first time lol. It's ok I forgive you younger self.
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that was quite a personal change anon

so like...what happened? ( ´・ω・)
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Watching anime and doing what I love at the computer my 10-year-old self would be happy.
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Very dissapointed, doing nothing with my life, basically putting no effort into anything in life, not even enjoying hobbies or anything. Just a soulless human. Probably demotivating for all of the dreams that my 10 year old self had.
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Prolly confused. I had no idea what the fuck I'd be as an adult so ye confused sounds good
Oct 22, 8:39 AM

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10 year old me was easily impressed, so something small like having my own car would blow his mind.
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@Nette What stuff? You are relatively normal tbh. You aren't a try hard trans, furry and nerdom stuff you like pretty normal.
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You aren't a try hard trans, furry and nerdom stuff you like pretty normal.


What do you mean by that? Being trans ain't that weird really. But ye a furry is a bit weird, I should know
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Neither.

At least he’d be happy that I bought a console and a bike with my own money, something he had always dreamed about.
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I think I'd be surprised I am alive at 29.
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MissHeed said:
You aren't a try hard trans, furry and nerdom stuff you like pretty normal.


What do you mean by that? Being trans ain't that weird really. But ye a furry is a bit weird, I should know
@Nysse I never said trans is weird lol wtf dude.

Furry is tame. Not all furries are degenerate loser.

I know plenty of furries.
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