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[ SECRET POST #2328 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2328 ⌋

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If you could go back in time and tell your past self one thing, what would it be?

I'd tell myself to save every goddamn penny I earn, because eventually my parents will pull the rug out from under me, and all that saved up money is going to help me out a lot.

I'd tell myself to get help for my binge eating. It took more than twenty years for anyone to realize I had a problem and wasn't just a shameless glutton.

Be more active.

Do not smoke. Not even one cigarette.

Re: Dear Past Self...

making_excuses - 2013-05-19 09:44 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Dear Past Self...

lunabee34 - 2013-05-19 22:28 (UTC) - Expand

The number one thing is to never take my friends for granted.

The number two thing is to exercise ever day.

Dear May,

0) DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN FANDOM. DO NOT. YOU ALREADY HAVE SUCH AN OBSESSIVE PERSONALITY. THIS WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF YOUR DOWNFALL.

1) Do not drop out of high school the first, second, or third time. It's not fucking worth it. Get your shit together freshman year. You're going to regret it so, so much, and you're always going to feel inferior to the rest of your friends because you finished HS and started life so late.

2) Do not get in between your little sister and that abusive douchebag she took up with when she was 15. She's going to turn on you and defend him to the end, and you're going to spend months fighting with them and trying to protect her, and one day he's going to hit you and your sister is going to continue to stick with him and you're going to get so, so depressed. That one incident ruined you more than you'll know.

3) Don't quit your art. Don't. You have so much potential. You're going to regret that, too.

4) Lose weight! Seriously, stop being such a little bitch about this. Your weight is going to make you miserable for years, and it's going to be a huge source of your anxiety. Just lose the fucking weight.

5) See a fucking therapist. You have so many fucking issues and you can't just can't cope without professional help. The earlier you see someone and get your anxiety/depression under control, the earlier you can start living life.

Don't fuck this up.

- You

Re: Dear Past Self...

(Anonymous) - 2013-05-19 18:28 (UTC) - Expand

I would tell myself that running is actually fun. despite playing field hockey since third grade, I was always a fat kid-preteen since I thought exercising of your own free will sounded like torture. after my dad died freshman year I started exercising, and in sophomore year I started running every day. turns out I fucking love running, and if I had started earlier I may have ended up with far fewer body issues that I still carry with me despite losing the weight.

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Re: Dear Past Self...

(Anonymous) - 2013-05-19 01:24 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Dear Past Self...

(Anonymous) - 2013-05-19 04:19 (UTC) - Expand

I'd tell myself to actually apply to colleges I wanted to and not the ones I actually applied to and ended up attending. I might have gotten in. I'll never know now.

I'd tell myself to take chances in life instead of playing it safe. Look where that's gotten me (nowhere).

Don't go to grad school, you're just gonna wind up sparking more depression than you've dealt with since high school (but on the bright side, you'll finally get help for it.) And if you insist on going anyway, go the Korean route instead of Chinese.

But seriously, don't go.

I would tell myself which people and places and experiences I'm going to miss after they're gone, so I could waste less time feeling new and nervous and not realizing how good and important they were.

I'd teach her the difference between being nice and being a pushover.

Also, let her know that she has OCD so she can learn to cope earlier. :(

-You actually really like 90s rock. Go find some of that to listen to so you can stop settling for the least-worst options music-wise.

-College is not for you. I know you love learning stuff, but that's not where it's going to happen. Just keep reading books and you'll do fine.

-Buy that hilarious tanuki statue you saw at Goodwill. You will NEVER see another one. Well, you did once. But it was the wrong color and really ugly. (Okay, so that was only a year ago, but it's still technically the past.)

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Re: Dear Past Self...

starphotographs - 2013-05-19 02:11 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Dear Past Self...

childings.livejournal.com - 2013-05-19 02:15 (UTC) - Expand

Secrets will poison you, mentally and physically. DEAL WITH YOUR SHIT, instead of trying to bury it. It is FAR easier in the long run; just trust me on this one, okay?

Be more assertive about your needs. Don't expect people to read your mind; they're not psychic! Know what they see when they look at you? Just a normal person, really. People aren't judging you and watching your every move; they couldn't care less about you, so chill out.

You are not that bad a person. No, really. You're not defective or broken or crazy. In fact, those "flaws" you're always whining about - those can be turned into SKILLS. Use them!

The world is not that bad a place. No, really. There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

Also, get off your ass and get a part-time job.

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks about you because most them will respect you when you finally respect yourself. And someday, you will actually like yourself.

SAVE EVERYTHING YOU MAKE EVEN IF IT'S STUPID oh my god you have no idea

I recorded an "album" when I was 14 on a Fisher-Price tape recorder with a kazoo, one of those microphone toys with the echo effect and a kalimba/African thumb piano. I wrote all my own original songs (most were about teachers and the principal at my junior high but one was about Speed Racer and there were others) and just ugh I'm sure it'd be really hilarious to listen to now. I mean how creative can you get to do something like that? I was always writing/illustrating books too and I drew a ton of comics but later I was like "this sucks, I am so embarrassed" and I threw it all away, uggggh. Same for the Lupin III yaoi I drew in high school. UGH!

On your 18th birthday, the lottery numbers will be xxxxxx. Go buy a house - staying with your parents will make you unhappy.

Dear M,

Take organic chemistry and more chemistry-based bio classes. Don't focus on eco/evo. Don't work in that lab. Don't do the BAMA program.

Signed,
M

Don't go to a 4-year school. Go to community college and get your associate's, because that's at least something and your parents will pay for it, but don't waste your fucking time and money on a 4-year school. Not right now. And tell your partner not to waste his time on it, either - it'll be better for both of you in the long run, trust me.

Flirt with more people. Date them. Have sex with them. You don't need to be ~sure~ about them - you can always dump them. Don't get so hung up on getting a relationship "right" from the first moment that you rarely get around to actually have one.

Don't have sex with that guy.

It's possible that you're a boy. Despite what you've been told, some people with your type of body are. Look up transsexuality.

Apply for community college and continue your education immediately after you get your GED, do this fucking thing, because it may actually make you enough friends and help you encounter enough opportunities to keep you out of a ten-year span of depression, isolation, and joblessness.

I would tell my past self that looks are deceiving, people with pretty faces can breaks hearts twice as fast.

Dear past Mae,

You have Asperger's syndrome and you're bipolar. Please get a diagnosis and some counseling/pills so you can stop being such a little shit online.

Your "friends" suck and will abandon you, and your church is a toxic environment that you need to get out of ASAP.

You may be a hardcore conservative Christian now, but you're going to grow up to be a liberal lesbian atheist. Deal with it.

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