If you could write a note to your younger self

Leigh

Don't listen to mom/dad and their religious BS.
Have fun & get a life before you get to university.

Leigh from the future

L:rose:
 
Simple things

Use the "good" dishes more often.

Visit parents and grandparents more than just on the holidays.

Always take time for a hug and an "I love you".
 
Eh, I liked figuring it out on my own. I don't want my help. If anything, I'd just send myself a drawing of somep'm cute, like a skateboarding hippopotamus.

I wrote a letter to my future self when I was a teenager, though, detailing the dramatic reality of all the FEELINGS my mother couldn't understand and making the case that adolescents aren't just irrational and irresponsible. I meant to read it one day if I ever had kids, to keep me in touch with the REALNESS of how fucking REAL I was, but I'm pretty sure I lost it cuz adolescents are irrational and irresponsible.
 
Sure. But wouldn't you have liked to have bought a thousand shares of Apple and Walmart when first offered?

I would have retired a long time ago.

But, I'm still working.


I've never seen anybody with a consistent ability to differentiate between the Compaqs/Osbornes/Apollos/Eagles/Gateways and the Apples.

I was very fortunate to have teachers who taught me that was a fool's game. As a result, I observed as people guessed which ones would be the winners and placed bets they usually lost.

After decades of watching and studying, I came to the conclusion that my teachers were right (and had saved me from learning a very expensive lesson [the hard way] ).

I don't always agree with the man's politics, but Warren Buffett's teachings (and those of his mentors, Benjamin Graham and Charles Munger) have stood the test of time.



 
To much younger self:

1) "You must absolutely understand that the opposite sex is just as horny but take it slow."

2) "Stop rushing to put a finger inside as fast as possible. Tease the lips the way she does herself."

3) "You will end up getting laid far more often idiot by following the above!"
 
Don't marry the first girl to give me head.
 
Your peers: you're better than them.
Your teachers: they can be, and are, wrong. And you're allowed to tell them that.

Also, yes she likes you.
 
Dear younger me,

One day you will drive a red Ford Sierra. Nice car, btw. You have a big heart and that's all cool, but you dodge a hedgehog and crash. You crash that car through a fence out in the middle of nowhere.

The farmer finds out where you live and comes to your house.

This is the important part. He will ask you if you crashed into his property and destroyed his fence. DO NOT LIE and say you didn't because he knows it was you and has your number plate because you left it lying next to his mangled fence in the grass, dumbass.

Also, brown is not your colour. And those eyebrows OMG. Your eyebrows are racist.
 
The grass isn't greener on the other side
Learn to cook for feck sake, even pot noddles get sickly
Don't get drunk the night before your trials you imbecile
Do invest in property
Don't take your father for granted, no matter how strong and fit he seems. :(
 
If you could write a note to your younger self what would you say, what advice would you give?

Mine would be a simple two words......

Don't smoke!

Woof!

Mine would be, "Tell your parents thanks but I don't want to move to Reno."
 
1. Don't marry her.

2. Don't marry her either.

3. When that physical therapist gets your ass back into shape after the first time you throw your back out, whatever you do follow his exercise regimen religiously the moment you leave his office for the final time. Don't miss a day. This will be the moment you have to start working to save the rest of your life, and as unappealing as it may seem, it will be far easier and less painful than the alternative.
 
Dear Younger Self,

My words to you would be to make decisions based on things differently that you did. I would want you to know that you will go through a horrible experience but will be stronger than possibly imagined in doing it. I would also say that to grow closer to God much earlier and be much more serious about it at an earlier age would be so very beneficial.

One more thing, take time during the days your children are young to really enjoy them. They really did grow up so fast.
 
Re-think the advice Will gave me on marriage. He was the one and only person that I asked. I asked in the context that I had just caught my fiance drinking...she was an admitted former black-out drinker. To me the important issue was she lied about it after being caught. I expected him to address that concern. He ignored it in dispensing his advice on marriage in general.

He said, "A woman should be an asset to the marriage. The question to ask is whether she will be an asset to the union."
 
You are right
Only you can make your prayers come true
They'll still love you
 
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Who cares if you look fat in that?

Because, most of the time, you didn't.
 
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