If you knew then what you know now...

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Another Friday kinda thread, following on from the The Bench thread and an idea that was inspired by a post in there. Although, sorry no photo to go with it this time, I dont have one of a young me online :lol:

So, if you could have an hour with your child/teenage self, what would you be saying? Would it be funny, poignant, educational, involve a slap round the earhole?

Me, I would tell myself to stop being an arse in 6th form and get to university.... and avoid the man in the green Ford Granada :D
 
I would tell myself that yes, cheech and chong are funny but they are not good role models!
 
Horribly clichéd and predictable, but look after my health (smoking included, but I knocked that on the head a LONG time ago). I do now, but I would be in an entirely better place if I hadn't just ignored my personal health from the age of about 15 to 30.

Other than that I've been pretty lucky in life, so not many complaints here. :)
 
Like Ade, don't start smoking! Similarly, don't start drinking (to excess!) Leave school at 16 and do an apprenticeship in plumbing. Spend more time with Mum and Dad. I think it was probably a few years too late to buy a few cheap classic cars but there were probably a few quid to be made!

If I'm allowed to go back to just before I hit 10, knowing what I do now, I would stick a few quid on a horse winning the Grand National 3 times in 10 years, and maybe stick a few more on that horse being called Red Rum after the '73 race. That's my greedy side showing through!
 
+1 to the smoking, but thankfully long given up that habit.

I would tell myself to travel more and learn a language.

Stop worrying about trying to fit in, once you've found good friends you can be yourself 100%.

Don't get that mullet haircut, it is not cool..
 
Don't be lazy, do some exercise and stop eating all that crap....otherwise you'll be 29 and a physically un-fit wreck that is trying damn hard to lose a shed load of weight...I've lost a lot in the last 190 days but I've still got over 200kgs to try and lose...

So yes I'd have a lot to say to a younger me
 
So many things,
Take that opportunity offered with one certain girl, treat a couple of ex girlfiends better, not spend that night with a mates wife.
Don't drop music, avoid a few encounters with the police, keep my mouth shut more.

The big thing I did right was work hard and met my missus.
 
MWHCVT said:
Don't be lazy, do some exercise and stop eating all that crap....otherwise you'll be 29 and a physically un-fit wreck that is trying damn hard to lose a shed load of weight...I've lost a lot in the last 190 days but I've still got over 200kgs to try and lose...

So yes I'd have a lot to say to a younger me
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Blimey - that's 3 of me
 
Id give myself a sports almanac, so that I could correctly predict the results of numerous sporting events throughout the following years...hang on...:thinking:

But seriously, I would strongly advise myself to knuckle down and stay in education as long as possible...and to stay away from Rosie who lived in Widford. It was like kissing a basking shark.
 
I'd change nothing, good or bad. The end.
 
Yv said:
or one of me... though don't get too excited, I am quite a short one to lose. :whistle:
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:lol: yes but you'll see a little less of me for the Megga Meet :P I'll still be a massive waste of space like, I'll just be a slightly smaller one by them...though I did safely negotiate London this week which I'm pleased about :P
 
MWHCVT said:
:LOL: yes but you'll see a little less of me for the Megga Meet :p I'll still be a massive waste of space like, I'll just be a slightly smaller one by them...though I did safely negotiate London this week which I'm pleased about :p
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You make it sound like: :D
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Tell Joe when you meet him at 16 to shove his head up his ass.
Tell Ian you love him on Nov 1 1999.
When the Dr says you're being a panic merchant in June 2004...go to A & E.
 
Keith W said:
Listen to your Mum & Dad, they know a thing or to
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Often thought to be Mark Twain (but apparently not):
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. :plus1:
 
don't give your best mate a piggy back on holiday ages 15 ... You'll have years of back issues injections and numerous prolapse discs..

Don't get drunk and go home.. Listen to your brother and stay out to sober up and get into trouble for that and not the drunkness :D

Make better men choices
 
Worry less about what others think of you, be a little more generous about other people, take a bit more care riding motorcyles in that first year and avoid porn. Other than that I'm pretty happy with how things turned out and have no desire to reboot things: still in love with the girl I married at 20, able to be the person I'm called to be and have enough to live on.
 
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I'd just tell myself not to wait for others do what you want to do now.
And dont get a credits card. And dont sell that split screen for £500 in 1985, it'll be worth +£20k in 20yrs time
 
Carry on doing what your doing, make your own decisions, trust your instincts and have fun.
You'll make a few mistakes along the way, but you'll learn from them and everything will work out OK in the end.

I really don't think there's anything I'd want to change TBH
 
To be honest I wouldn't know where to start and strangely enough I think about this sort of thing often. My mind is always full of what ifs.
 
CaveDweller said:
To be honest I wouldn't know where to start and strangely enough I think about this sort of thing often. My mind is always full of what ifs.
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Never gave this much thought until I saw the film "Sliding Doors" where just a few minutes could make a difference to what happens. No point worrying about it, but I've mentioned the "what if" scenarios to a few longterm friends since then and reactions have been interesting! :whistle:
 
Peter B said:
Never gave this much thought until I saw the film "Sliding Doors" where just a few minutes could make a difference to what happens. No point worrying about it, but I've mentioned the "what if" scenarios to a few longterm friends since then and reactions have been interesting! :whistle:
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Seen that same film and definitely gets you thinking. I don't think about all the what if's because I regret anything, I just like to think how things could have been different. You don't realise it at the time but nearly everything depends on a few minutes give or take here and there. like a crash I was in a few years ago. If I hadn't have overtaken a car and then rolled I wouldn't have met my wife. It was down to those few minutes that I decided to put my foot down that determined what was going to happen. Although I think that's the only time I've found happiness from sever pain lol.
 
CaveDweller said:
Seen that same film and definitely gets you thinking. I don't think about all the what if's because I regret anything, I just like to think how things could have been different. You don't realise it at the time but nearly everything depends on a few minutes give or take here and there. like a crash I was in a few years ago. If I hadn't have overtaken a car and then rolled I wouldn't have met my wife. It was down to those few minutes that I decided to put my foot down that determined what was going to happen. Although I think that's the only time I've found happiness from sever pain lol.
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When I was about 18, an 'old' friend [she was about 26 ;) ] said to me 'never regret what you do, only what you don't do'. She was probably about right ;)
 
Peter B said:
Never gave this much thought until I saw the film "Sliding Doors" where just a few minutes could make a difference to what happens.
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Ever seen the film 'The Butterfly Effect'

For me - starting smoking was a daft thing to do.

Other than that - I've made some stupid mistakes along the way. Sure I regret them but that's life and without those mistakes I wouldn't know any better now.
 
I really don't know... on the one hand I would say go to Uni, do a good degree and get a proper job with a career, don't go through a bit of recklessness in your 20s. That said I am now happily married with 2 great kids, so if I changed stuff back then, would I have what i have now?
 
cambsno said:
I really don't know... on the one hand I would say go to Uni, do a good degree and get a proper job with a career, don't go through a bit of recklessness in your 20s. That said I am now happily married with 2 great kids, so if I changed stuff back then, would I have what i have now?
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Thats exactly me, I do regret not going to university when I was young, regret not trying to get a degree, but would I be where I am if I had? Probably not and hopefully by the end of this year I will be in a position to finally do it anyway, as a 45 year old, perhaps a degree by the time I am 50? :D
 
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