If you only knew.....

United States
October 28, 2006 10:44am CST
If you could go back in time and meet yourself at an earlier age, what advice would you give yourself? What is the one thing you wish you had known then that you know now?
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• United States
28 Oct 06
Good question! I would go back to when I was about 10 or 11 and tell myself that no matter what happens, not to cry and to be strong. I'd also want to go back to when I was about 16 and tell myself not to date that guy, hes REAL bad news.
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• United States
28 Oct 06
Wow- how great it would be if you could give your love and support to that little child you were. I often wished I could do the same thing. Just to let that child know they had a friend in the world and everything was going to be OK. Oh, and I understand about the boyfriend too...how I wish I could have warned myself about my ex-husband!
@badpenny (741)
• Lancaster, Texas
6 Jan 07
To stay a way from boys and stay in school. If I had stayed away from boys, my life would have been on a much different track.
• United States
20 Jan 07
Great advice!! If only we all knew that, right? I wish I had gone on doing just what I liked doing without worrying so much about being in love or being attractive to others. But there are these crazy hormones running around our bodies telling us otherwise, aren't there? ;)
@meeoww (1174)
• United States
7 Nov 06
Don't waste your time helping people that don't want help. But you know...I don't think I would listen to me anyways. I am who I am and I really have stayed true to my beliefs as best that I could. After all, you know why hindsight is 20-20? So you don't miss when you kick yourself in the behind for doing something so stupid! Aloha!
• United States
12 Nov 06
Ohhhh that's a big one. I wish I had known that as well- help people who ASK for help! Great that you have such a good attitude about who you are now.
@iamgen (160)
• United States
6 Nov 06
i wish i would've known that my bipolar disorder needed to be treated, and to take it more seriously. i was diagnosed at 14 and didn't begin treatment until 26. that's a long haul, baby.
@iamgen (160)
• United States
6 Nov 06
i wish i would've known that my bipolar disorder needed to be treated, and to take it more seriously. i was diagnosed at 14 and didn't begin treatment until 26. that's a long haul, baby.
• United States
12 Nov 06
Wow, that's a tough one. My daughter has bipolar disorder (since she was 11) and doesn't think she needs treatment. She's pretty hard to live with because of it. I worry about how she's going to make it in the real world.