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Have You Ever Wished You Could Go Back In Time And Slap Yourself?

FireAndLighting

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I was just sitting here thinking while I'm waiting for my 3D render to finish, and I got a barrage of really embarrassing things I did in the past hit me all at once. A lot of it was online when I had Facebook, and I'm realizing now that I was quite the keyboard warrior back in the day. I think a lot of it was because I didn't have any real way of venting my anger out because people just largely ignored me and my parents would either tell me to "just deal with it" or they would just act all high and mighty because they were just older than me, which honestly drove me up the wall pretty bad. Another issue I had at the time (and still do) was my fanatically religious grandmother. If I did ANYTHING she didn't like it was automatically a bad thing and I was being sinfully influenced by "bad people". Just listening to my favorite bands at the time (Disturbed, Nickelback, Breaking Benjamen, etc) was the equivalent of listening to the "Devil's music", despite the fact these bands often sang about things she agreed with politically.

I honestly have a lot of regret about what I've done and said in the past now. I now know my friends at the time saw me in a different light whenever I posted those comments on social media back in the day, but how else was I supposed to vent out my frustration whenever nobody ever listened to me? I wish I could go back and change the things I did by never getting on social media, but the past is the past and everything is written in stone. Whatever was said was said and there's nothing I can do about it now.

I try to be a good person. I try to hold respect towards anyone regardless of their own personal beliefs. I was raised as a Christian, but I never took it seriously like so many others do. I'm not arrogant enough to say someone else is wrong just because my book said so. If you hold different political opinions than me, then so be it. It doesn't mean we still can't find common ground on certain topics. Everybody, be it Conservative or Liberal, loves animal videos. We might root for the same sports teams, and we might like the same video game genre.

I think social media in the end has exposed a lot of people to the monsters they really are. You can say whatever you want when you're safely tucked away behind a keyboard in your own house. But I feel like most people, regardless of our difference, would get along fine if we met in person. Of course, there will always be extremists who just refuse to get along with anybody, but I think a lot of the division people see in today's world is largely due to the rise of social media.

I deleted my social media long ago and only use YouTube and DeviantArt, while watching the occasional TikTok videos. I've honestly been a lot happier in life without social media, and I would encourage people to go even just one week without looking at their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or whatever else they use. You might find life is a lot more fun whenever you're not watching the life of someone you went to high school with and haven't talked to since graduation. That's just my opinion, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCjPQ6UKlU
 
Ya I have done some dumb crap,but it has made me the person I am today
 
I would change my life path dramatically if I were able to go back to my high school days. If I somehow knew what I know now, I would have just gone to community college instead of a 4-year college and learned a trade like electrician. I would've saved some money while gaining experience in the field and eventually started my own contracting firm.

I would have also started prepping much earlier and created a homestead for what's likely to come in the next 12 months.
 
I definitely would like to go back and slap myself circa 1993, when I was a dumb 20-something paying upwards of $70 for tickle porn tapes at sex shops near airports-----when I could have waited a few years and bought clips much cheaper online.
 
The regrets we feel are all workings of the ego. I've learned for quite a while that nobody really cares much about our past works or anything we say online. It is only our thoughts getting conscious of it. People are too distracted nowadays. And yes, it helps doing less participation in social media like saying less about your personal self.

For me it starts with "I'm not really that special." There is nothing much to slap myself for.
 
Yes absolutely, in particular around March/April 1997 I would also warn my younger self about the danger ahead and what to do to avoid it.
 
(Carpe diem?) SIEZE THE DAY!

Too often. :ermm: Wish I could go back 25 years, even 2 years.... But we can learn and fix things so that we don't regret more further down the line!
 
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I would slap myself silly!
 

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Due to the fact that I frequently have nightmares when I sleep and have embarrassing memory flashbacks flash before my eyes occasionally (both leading me to believe that my brain is actively trying to cause me pain on a continuous basis), yes, I frequently look back on the past and wish to GOD ALMIGHTY I could have talked some SENSE into my immature self and gotten me to TAKE MY MEDICINE and just convince myself that I had schizophrenia and that I truly NEEDED to take my MEDS to function like a normal human being.

It took me ten long years to get back on my feet after I stumbled and fell and even though I now have a clean apartment, a nice used car, a decent job, and a loving GF (whom I hope to marry some day) I still look back and wonder what could have BEEN ya knows? I certainly would have saved both my mother and father some massive headaches. The sad fact though is I was so immature and sick back then that I probably would not have listened to my future self. I still would have committed the same mistakes.
 
To make mistakes is to be human , everyone feels this.

If a person does not feel this, then I feel it makes them arrogant that they think they were right all the time.

Many of mine are too personal to post, so I wont.

Let's just say that I have some major regrets in my life, some more serious and meaningful than others.
 
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