Things you wish you had known
 

What are some things you wish you had known?
Weather it be when you were younger or last week it's whatever you want.

That, in general, people don't care about what you do. I was way too self-conscious growing up.

I wish I had realized how important it was to network when I was still in college.

There's a lot I've done wrong that I've learned about. I still wished I never did it wrong in the first place, though.

And I've trusted some people I probably shouldn't have. Know who your friends are.

Women who don't have any female friends are usually very insecure and most of the time, they're terrible. Avoid them.

Get over your childhood. It happened. Quit talking about it.

Don't be mean to people because they remind you of the bad aspects of yourself.

Being a whore isn't such a bad thing.

People will disappoint you. It doesn't mean they don't care about you. It just means that they're people. You disappoint people too and hard as you try to prevent it, you're going to let them down sometimes. That doesn't mean that you hate them or don't care about them so it doesn't mean that people feel that way about you when they disappoint you.

You're blonde at heart. Stop dying your hair shitty colors.

Feeling like everybody hates you and nobody understands you is really normal. You're really normal. Stop being so tense.

Stand up straight. You look angsty and unpleasant.

You're not the hero. You're the comic relief.

Allright dear little Tumor, you may be telling quite some crap there, according to me, or I still need to learn a lot. But you have at least one brilliant remark.
This is very, very wise.

What do you consider crap?

Well, crap. Let's put it differently:
I wouldn't particularly advise people to listen to these:

I was talking to myself and if I had known this shit years ago then modern life would be just A+++++++++, but thanks for acknowledging me I guess.
Cheers bro.

Ah, sure. I forgot about that. I'm glad it helped you along.
I still don't agree with all of them. I think you're probably a bit hard on yourself :).

I think you just killed this thread. :/

That college is absolutely essential and fucking around in freshman year (of high school) is not a good investment. My cumulative gpa is still fine and I'm definitely going to college but it has been a pain in the ass taking all these impossible AP classes in junior year to make up for the mistakes I made almost 3 years ago.

Woops. Ah just ignore whatever I said and continue :).

I guess this thread is all about hind sight is 20/20 but idk.

I don't live with any regrets so I guess I don't have anything useful to contribute but I just wanted to add this wisdom

live your life and don't regret anything that you have done in the past because everything that you have gone through have made your stronger and the better person that you are today.

The only thing I wish I'd known was that David Bowie was never going to gig again after his 2003/4 tour. Otherwise I'd have put much more into trying to get hold of tickets to see him when I had the chance.

Yeah, I don't really live with many regrets either.
Nah, nostalgia's fun. It's a good source of conversation-fodder.

I don't know why you disagreed with these s_k they are true for the most part.

The whole stop talking about childhood relates to bad childhood experiences I think she means and not the good nostalgic kind.

the whole standing up straight is just something good to do. Good posture is a good thing to have and will help your back in the future.

I don't think anyone should ever stop talking if it makes them feel better.
You cannot just 'get over' stuff.
It still sits there.

yeah but I don't think talking about things will change your past or make you feel better if you keep talking about it and you are uncomfortable about how much you talk about it.

People deal and cope with their past/situations differently. Some people can talk about it and feel better while others are just fine not mentioning it at all and it doesn't sit on their conscious.

I wish I had known you have to bake weed into something to eat it.

Not sure, I'm not much of a talker myself when it comes to personal problems. You may have gotten another impression of me, but that's really true.
I do like it thought when people tell me their problems, even if they are childhood-based. History still counts today. There's a lot of reasons why you act like you act right now, because of things that have happened in your childhood.

I understand that but sometimes those things in the past are just so horrible and you feel like crap and get down every time you talk about them so why keep ripping open the flesh wound?

Because if you don't let the wound heal properly it will cause an infection at some point.
You can't get past certain **** just by 'not talking about it'.
It will come back at some time.

Very true. I had an iffy childhood in some respects, but I make due.

I don't think I would have cared about knowing anything more than I do now. I would have still felt the same. In actuality I don't think I've learned anything. I just think differently.

I think it all depends on the person. Some people are able to do it while others aren't

I wish I had known:

- That the top bunk wasn't, nor ever will be, the best.
- That regardless of how many vitamins you mix together, you will not hallucinate.
- That you cannot pee into a face towel without getting any on the ground, and the bet is rigged.
- That I never really danced well. The alcohol was wrong.
- That smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol isn't as awesome as my physiological and psychological existence would lead me to believe.
- That cocaine is a hell of a drug.
- That dying is for fools.

i wish i had known that not getting enough sleep causes acne

This is me talking to me:

- When people told you, "Before you can love someone else, you need to love yourself," they weren't completely full of shit. Self-loathing really gets in the way.

- High school should really be the time of your life; you have to grow up afterwards, and probably won't even see 99% of those people on a regular basis again after graduation, so there was no reason not to live it up a little.

- The majority of people don't think they're "too good" for you, and to think otherwise is completely paranoid.

- The amount of people who are extremely talented actors + not child-frighteningly ugly is a lot smaller than previously believed.

- You can spend $100 every 2 weeks and survive, saving the rest of your money. Within a year, you will have enough saved to get the hell out of Ashland. (I'm in the process of this one right now, but should have started much, much sooner)

- You really did love E...and she loved you, too. You both knew what you were getting into when it started, but you got scared and ran away. That will probably haunt you forever.

- Don't throw away mixtapes from your exes. They won't be depressing someday, and they'll actually often give you a nice, nostalgic happiness remembering the songs.

- Don't try to learn lines in the bathtub; you will drop the script in the water every single time, no matter what you tell yourself to the contrary beforehand.

One time, let the drunk guy who pisses the bed have the top bunk one time, then get back to me.

I know you are talking to yourself but I highly disagree with that statement.

Majority of the people that shine in High School and make it out to be bigger/better than it really is, when they continue the rest of their life it's pretty much the high point of their life and it's all downhill from there. That's why people that were popular in high school end up being drug addicts, fat, have six kids, working at mickey ds. They were under this false impression that they were more important that they actually are and when they hit the real world they fall flat on their asses. While the nerds, geeks and others that were bullied/picked on excel in their normal life after high school and are able to buy the apartment building that the Prom King is currently living in.

It triggers acne. It doesn't cause acne.
Anything that makes your body weak (or your skin greasy, like chocolate) triggers acne.

Hahaha, I love that last one.
I picked out one as I don't know, but apart from that every single one of those is spot on if you ask me.
And as far as the ex-stuff go: Don't throw away ANYTHING from your exes.
It's good to have memories, even if it sucked in the end. I now notice that, talking to my ex about good things in our past, gets us a lot closer together.

i shoulda lost my virginity earlier - it gives me that otherworldly horndog sheen of a sexual charisma that never fails to pick up women

I wish that I had lost it to someone who wasn't a jumpoff. It was barely worth it and didn't really mean anything afterward.

I'm assuming that what he/she meant is that going over the ****ty **** that happened to you years ago over and over again in your head just puts you into never ending cycle of pain and just let it go if it's just hurting you and keeping you from moving on.

i was worse than you - i was drunk and semi-raped - i only thought of that girl as a best fren not an f-buddy

still it gave me that testesterone sheen

-hip-hop is awesome :)
-your first kiss/time will most likely be with someone you care f*ck-all about and won't be that magical awesome sh*t that is hyped as it is
-commuting to college is not nearly as fun as living on campus :/
-confidence with women can go a LOOOOOONG way
-don't shoot waterguns at lightbulbs, unless you like facing exploded glass

[QUOTE=Tumor;1019495]Women who don't have any female friends are usually very insecure and most of the time, they're terrible. Avoid them.

i learned something tyvm

I guess I have one.

"I wish I would've known that money CAN buy happiness despite what daydreamers say."

At least temporarily :)