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You wake up in your bed and you’re only 12 years old, everything since was just a dream but you have the knowledge of your older self. What do you do differently?


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5 minutes ago, Gina Szanboti said:

I don't think doing anything differently would've made any difference.  I'd still have failed at everything, just at different things.

Theres a few key decisions I would definitely not make again if given the chance 

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2 minutes ago, Athena 92 said:

Idk about this one because there's a lot of things I'd like to have done differently in my life but at the same time I'm overall happy with where I'm at now and I'd constantly be worrying about fucking things up 

this too. there are a lot of things i lucked into. i half expected my life to go nowhere after college. except that i somehow got into my first job after sleeping in on the first interview

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i do wonder how my life would have changed if i didn't fuck up my first relationship and spend a subsequent 6 years alone. would i still be home and not have taken the much better job in NC i got after my first real job? would she and i have gotten married and would i have settled into getting a job in the city like I wanted to?

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That's the age I was my parents separated, which eventually led to divorce . . . I dunno. Focus more on school, realize Organization XIII isn't as ominous or cool as I initially thought and that Kingdom Hearts is going to turn into a clusterfuck of a story.

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there's really only one change i would make. i would want to see about a certain girl, but if everything after 12 was just a dream then it wouldn't matter because i didn't meet her until high school.

so yeah, i guess i'd just roll over and go back to sleep.

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The real question is- when you grow to your current age, then revert back to a 12 year old again, what would you do with the knowledge that you were on a time loop of x amount of years?

Like groundhogs day, only more like... groundhogs multiple decades.

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For at least the first two years back in the past, I'll fuck things up royally because there's no way in hell I'll wake up at age 12 and not have a complete nervous breakdown. I don't want to go back to high school, so going back to middle school...*shudders*. And let's see. The butterfly effect of draining my parents' finances after being hospitalized at a much earlier age and possibly having no friends because their parents don't want them hanging out with the 'crazy kid' would also do some major damage. The only positive things I could think of is that I could publish stories right when gay romance and paranomal romance blew up(advances during the Twilight/Hunger Games era were insane) and buy stocks.

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I would give myself advice in regards to future girls I was involved with.

To not make the mistakes that lead to me squandering what I had with my first gf, her being the one that understood and accepted me the most, compared to the future bitches I associated with. Considering 2nd gf was a major compulsive liar and jerked me around for her own amusement, even to the extent of telling me she had a miscarriage when it was intentional abortion. 3rd gf was better than the 2nd, but I was going through a somewhat irreligious/atheist episode and she was very Christian, something she didn't like. At some point she quite literally up and disappeared out of my life, I found out close to a year later that she met and got engaged / married to someone else...

so in short I'd make things work out with the 1st one.

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Jesus...what wouldn't I?  Maybe try working on the anxiety thing a good decade or so before I actually did so I can figure out how interpersonal relationships are supposed to work.  Do some shit I never did as a kid, even if it was getting consoles I never owned.  Get family medicals medical treatment before they actually received it.  For damn sure make sure I chose a different major in college.  Maybe pick up on signals that certain people were throwing my way but I was totally oblivious to.  Try meeting certain people even earlier than I originally did, but definitely make sure I still met them regardless.  Not wind up in a job that gives me no real satisfaction, with no sense of what I actually want to do.  That'd be nice.

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1 hour ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

So much this.

Ehh ... I dont really think the message boards were a problem for me. I complain about being awkward alot but I'm fine being the weirdo I am. I doubt I could make myself an extrovert.  I'd just immediately know what I wanted to do in college and probably would've stayed on campus somewhere instead of struggling so hard with night shifts and early morning classes. I think my overall goal would be to struggle less and not waste so much time. 

There are some key people I would know to avoid. I think out of everything avoiding those people would be the most important.

 

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Dude for real though I would be terrified of stepping outside the bound of my previous iterations "footsteps" as it were.

I can't do anything different because it will change the future, and that's a long time to try to do everything exactly the same.

Anxiety on an entirely unprecedented level.

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Just now, SwimModSponges said:

Dude for real though I would be terrified of stepping outside the bound of my previous iterations "footsteps" as it were.

I can't do anything different because it will change the future, and that's a long time to try to do everything exactly the same.

Anxiety on an entirely unprecedented level.

Yeah, wouldn't want to do anything to possibly disrupt this marvelous present 

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