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Imagine being able to travel back in time and have a conversation with your younger self. What words of wisdom or advice would you share? What experiences or lessons learned would you want them to know about?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Get treated for ADHD and depression sooner.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)
  • kick out the drummer
  • she's not worth it
  • she is also not worth it
  • save every last dollar you can
  • don't smoke that cigarette
  • forget BlackBerry, put it in an index fund instead
[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Omg BB πŸ€•

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

Don’t stick your dick in crazy and whatever you do, don’t get married or buy a house together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

This fear you are having will not go away, but go and laugh it straight in the face.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Take a hard Look at your partner, this is the best you'll ever get. Dont fuck it up. Listen to them and go to fucking therapy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

There are a lot of amazing people in your life, such as [List of great friends], be sure to be a excellent friend to them to. However, some of your relationships will break apart with others, be kinder and more understanding to/of [List of lost friends]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't sell your Bitcoin.

Alternately, buy more Bitcoin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Save as much money as possible;

Short AA at the end of Aug 2001; you’ll know when to cover.

In Oct 2001 buy AAPL

In 2008 buy bitcoin… keep buying, and WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORDS, until it hits $100. Don’t worry about it; just do it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

You aren’t a fuckup because you weren’t smart enough to protect yourself from getting hurt by others. Your parents are supposed to be looking out for you and they are not. They are to blame, not you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Hey, dont join the military. Go to college and do programming. Trust me, you want to go onto IT, youll be good at it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You're trans, idiot.

Buy Bitcoin then use your fortune to help fix global warming or something else for the good of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you me? It would have been so much easier if I'd come out like, 10yrs ago. At least I would have been on my parents insurance.

I'll throw in "stop being afraid of the furry community you fucking dumbass; they're a hell of a lot nicer than your current """friends"""".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

I don't think I'm you, and I think it would have been harder for me to come out 10 years ago. The trajectory of my life would be completely different if I had, and my family that's cool with it almost certainly wouldn't have been as cool with it then.

Still, wish I could have gotten on estrogen WAY earlier for more effetmcts U.U Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Literally wrote my comment and then scrolled down and two of the points I wrote are exactly what you wrote, thats crazy lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Sadly some of us don't realize we're trans until well into adulthood.

Sadly some of us don't realize that Bitcoin (while awful in many ways) is worth a fortune until it's 10 years too late. πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

mainly I would give him a hug and tell him he's a good and worthy person because that is what he needs the most

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Do not like alcohol that much

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago
  • you're not being silly, you are a woman and these kinds of thoughts aren't just for "real trans people" (and also you are a real trans person)
  • you need to start giving more thought to how your words and actions affect people, or you're going to hurt someone you love
  • I know those two nuggets of info are hard to hear and are quite heavy, but I promise that observing them and taking them seriously will mean you live an immeasurably happier life
  • buy a bunch of bitcoin with your pocket money. Sell it on December 16th 2016, buy as much as you can with what you got on January 26th 2019. Sell it all on March 13th 2021. Donate half of what you made to stonewall, and use the rest for the house you'll be trying to buy.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I would probably tell myself not to bother with college and suggest I go to a technical school instead. Apparently degrees aren't worth jack shit around here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure I would. If I could have avoided the bullshit or done the things that would have optimized my income and wealth, I don't think I would have ended up where I am now. The risk doesn't seem worth it, I would be a completely different person with a completely different life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Caring what others think is a waste of your time. Always trust your gut, it was always the best option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I've always had this answer for any of these kinds of questions. I would never say anything to them, but I'd give them a USB flashdrive. In it are a series of documents and pictures. They're of things of importance that I've listed. Things of what to do and not do, people to meet earlier than later and things I've noted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

"Convince someone to buy bitcoin for you and hold on to it"

[–] Montagge 7 points 1 day ago

Don't fucking join the Army

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Literally nothing.

Give him a high five and tell him to keep doing what he is doing. Since we invent the time machine, I wouldn't want to fuck that up. Really I wouldn't even visit.

I would however be expecting a visit from my future self, to get the details on how to solve global warming and a bunch of other issues.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Invest in you old age: Superannuation or some other savings device. You need to put on as much as you possibly can as soon as you can but this needn't mean you plow all your income into it straight away. Transfer or invest as little as $20 per week initially, you'll never miss it and after a few weeks or months keep increasing the amount till you've reached your ceiling. Reinvest your earnings or dividends, compound interest is a beautiful thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Don't become the person you think you'd hate to become haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Money things, obv
But i could definitely help guide myself through some lessons that i learned the hard way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Just wait. It'll all work out fine.