If you’re not middle aged, pick a younger age, IDK
He’d be disappointed that he doesn’t end up doing anything epic and world-changing, but then he’d immediately be relieved that he’s mostly got shit figured out. Wife, home, job, driving, cooking, all the basic stuff.
Then he’d realize he only thought he needed to do something epic because he couldn’t picture himself having those basic things figured out. This would take him a few minutes to process, so he wouldn’t say anything.
You are happily married in Europe, don’t pigeon hole yourself in networking, jump on the automation bandwagon and as always buy and hold Bitcoin till it hits 90K
Someone tried to convince mid-20s me about bitcoin and he was having none of it. Probably would’ve squandered a ton of it back then, anyway, once it got over the hump of a pizza for 10k or 50k bitcoin or whatever it was and finally got some acceptance.
The question is “what would they say about your current self”, not what advice would you give them…
Yep, totally misread that. I shouldn’t Lemmy right as I wake up
“Your heart did WHAT??!?!?”
whoa, really?
nice! congrats!
To avoid this and probably be generally better, I’d explain the current situation and say to be more active in government and vote more, but I was working at times 2-3 jobs and surviving off of dollar store boxed mashed potatoes at one point and, I forget whether 19 or 20, living out of my car surviving on wonderbread factor outlet leavings and peanut butter in addition to what my restaurant job would give.
The question is not “what advice would you give them?”, but “What would they think of your current self?”
They would tell me to read better, apparently. I had meant to do a two-birds-one-stone sort of approach but swapped your final ‘they’ with a ‘you’. Oopsie.
Nice recovery 😂
Your dog is awesome.
Your job is pretty cool. I don’t think I’m ready for that yet, but I’ll keep that on my radar.
Your beard and moustache are epic. Shame about the hair, but I knew that was coming.
Congrats on getting married, can’t wait to meet her.
Donald Trump? Twice? Really? And they do what? Fuck, man…fuck.
Career? (Not knowing about AI) Oh wow interesting!
Life? (Not knowing about cost of living) Dude wtf!
19 year old me was dirt poor and thought everything was expensive. Now I spend more on my mortgage than he made in a month. 🥲
fuck yeah! i was worried for us, thanks for making the hard choices and sacrifices.
Working in something vaguely related to what you just started studying and playing games. Just like you do now.
Younger me was really depressed, like clinically and so caught up in himself that I think he’d hear me, but not actually listen to what I’d have to say. And I don’t totally blame him, he was very confused and hadn’t really figured himself out yet.
I think he’d be surprised but also unhappy with the direction of my life… But he’d be unhappy no matter what since he still hadn’t figured out how to beat his depression and make his own happiness.
Plus he’s not only stubborn but also secretly a bit arrogant and needs to fall on his face a lot to learn lessons. His failures will be his greatest teachers. The fact that he even can fail will be very hard to accept but very needed as well.
So overall, I don’t expect his reaction would be great. But I also can’t see myself wanting to give him any advice nor do I really care what he would think… Actually I would tell him to lift with his knees and not his back more, properly show him how to do it too.
Ooh yeah… I as lucky enough to have a parent with back pain, so paid attention early on how to avoid it. Still got a sore back though 🥲
They’d say: “oh shit, give me some of that methylfolate, please.”
“Non-bina-what? Don’t know about it. But let’s focus on the real information please. We don’t play League of Legends anymore? What do we play with our friends then? … we left our friends because they were idiots? WHAT? HOW?”
Oof. There are some feels there.
My 19yo self would be very excited to see the enby hottie I’ve become, wholly unsurprised to learn that I’m still with the partners I was at the time, and very worried about what could have happened to destroy my faith in singularitarianism.
I’d have to go back to 10yo me to find an egg. Parents divorced the year before, and I was still devouring the local library for fun because we didn’t have internet yet. Little-Me would have incessant questions I wouldn’t be able to answer without violating the trans prime directive, but I do deeply wish I could have had just one enby role model back then so I wouldn’t have had to spend my first puberty in denial instead of on puberty blockers.
Dude, you get your weed delivered to your house from a legitimate pharmacy and you can legally smoke it, everything else doesn’t matter, Ohh yeah and that dickhead dad of ours gets kicked out, we never see him again and we get to be fucking awesome, oh and finally, you’re 2 years away from owning the greatest dog you’ve ever met who becomes your legitimate best friend, she lives 15 years and they were amazing years with her.
Young me: WAIT GAMES ARE 3D?! Holy shit 2025 must be awesome
Not young me: Um…
“Huh.”
