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Thread: ITT: 50 year old me drops wisdom on 20 year old me

post 1076505971 05-23-2013, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted By Deenur⏩
-Don’t spend so much money on liquor. I could have bought a brand new SUV by now
When you're 70 it will be

- Don't spend so much money on brand new SUV's. I could have had more experiences and travel with my friends and family by now.

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are u really 740 lbs op?
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My biggest fear in life is to give up on my dreams and settle for less because I'm too scared. The last three years have been a battle between my dreams and the other part of me that's too afraid to take any risks. It's something that can keep me awake till 4 am some nights, where I just think about what I want to do. I believe I have figured it out and I decided to not continue my education so I could focus on becoming independent and starting my own business. I also refuse to become a slave the next 50 years by settling for a 9-5 job that's "good enough". Is it wrong to put so much hope in a future that you might never have? Or is it worse to wake up in your 40s one day and realize that you've wasted your life being so afraid of losing that you never got to taste victory?

Did all people have bigger dreams when they're younger, but just forget about them as they are heading down a path towards mediocrity. Do you really forget about them and learn to settle for less or do you change somewhere along the road and become an entirely different person?
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Originally Posted By FullGluteSpread⏩
2 questions OP:

1. How religious/spiritual would you say you are?

2. If you had come into a large amount of money early on do you think you think it would have changed who you are now?
1) religious no, spiritual yes very
2) What is large? Early on if I would have picked up an extra 500k it probly would have been the death of me.
I was a screwed up mess until my 30s.
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Originally Posted By ljr32⏩
are u really 740 lbs op?
Uh...... no
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post 1076508241 05-23-2013, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted By Grinners⏩
When you're 70 it will be

- Don't spend so much money on brand new SUV's. I could have had more experiences and travel with my friends and family by now.

You may be right, however I was saying SUV to give context to the $$$$, not saying I would have necessarily bought one
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Originally Posted By Deenur⏩
Well guys, I hit 50 years old this year.
I have had good years and not good years. But if I had the opportunity to go back and talk to 20 year old me, and have 20 year old me listen, this is what I would say:

-Figure out early what is important; you cannot do this early enough
-Dont spend so much money on liquor. I could have bought a brand new SUV by now
-Pick a few things and do them well and stick with them, quit chasing random crap
-Select a career you love regardless of the money, cause you never know when you will be kicked to the curb, unless you want to be self-employed.
-You treat people like crap, you will get treated like crap. Expect it, and no cryin
-Eat right.
-Whats outside (aesthetic) is important, but whats more important is who you are inside (no whiteknight, just reality, deal with it)
-Insecure people always have to have someone/something else to blame. Dont be that guy.

(More later, and BTW no amount of rage on your part will change the validity of my words):
THanks. strong truth in this
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Originally Posted By Nik7⏩
My biggest fear in life is to give up on my dreams and settle for less because I'm too scared. The last three years have been a battle between my dreams and the other part of me that's too afraid to take any risks. It's something that can keep me awake till 4 am some nights, where I just think about what I want to do. I believe I have figured it out and I decided to not continue my education so I could focus on becoming independent and starting my own business. I also refuse to become a slave the next 50 years by settling for a 9-5 job that's "good enough". Is it wrong to put so much hope in a future that you might never have? Or is it worse to wake up in your 40s one day and realize that you've wasted your life being so afraid of losing that you never got to taste victory?

Did all people have bigger dreams when they're younger, but just forget about them as they are heading down a path towards mediocrity. Do you really forget about them and learn to settle for less or do you change somewhere along the road and become an entirely different person?
What I would say to 20 year old me is: if your writing dream (mine) has not come out the way you want it by the time you are 50, are you going to just quit right now? My answer would have been no.

Your dreams are individually you, and as long as they are not destructive or abusive to others (ie I wanna be a pimp!) don't quit. ever. don't settle.

I have had many setbacks. I will not quit. You're gonna make it brah.
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post 1076520271 05-23-2013, 07:45 PM
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BTW crew, sorry I'm so slow on rep back. I get only about 5 or 6 before I have to wait for R/C. Will get to as many as I can
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Originally Posted By Deenur⏩
More than 1, less than 50. Not worth the heartache IMHO

I had to fight the compare fight in my head in the past, at a time when I was insecure in myself and I was taking it out on her. Now not a prob, and I appreciate who she is to me.

We were a blind date set up by a mutual friend, so we got connected that way
Thank you. So you asked her and it was sort of a bad idea?
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Thank you for posting this OP. I need it at a time like now. Repped.
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Originally Posted By hannibalnavies⏩
Thank you. So you asked her and it was sort of a bad idea?
Not sure what the question is.
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Originally Posted By fieldysnutz⏩
Thank you for posting this OP. I need it at a time like now. Repped.
Thanks
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post 1076591221 05-23-2013, 10:24 PM
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Happy birthday op! Good advice for us young guns
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Originally Posted By ColinPurdue⏩
Happy birthday op! Good advice for us young guns
I seriously wish I had known this stuff in my 20s. I would have been unstoppable.
No one would have competed.
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More interaction requested brahs. Many have said don't let this thread die.
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Do you have any regrets?
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Thanks OP
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Oh dear misc father. I beg of you to help me. I'm in a 2 yr relationship and sometimes it's good and sometimes we fight about like me sometimes changing plans (not big time changing) and there is no trust for something's because of a mistake I made. She gets mad a lot of things i do and tells me what to do a lot. I don't want to hurt her feelings If we break up because she's had a rough 19 year life. But then I also don't want to keep going and eventually hurt her worse. Also I sometimes think I want to move to a different city but she don't and she says if i love her then I will respect her opinion and it's not all about me. I feel like it's almost a great great relationship but it's just not quite there. She's a great girl but she doesn't hang out with her friends much and wants to be with me all the time. What do?
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I refuse to let this thread die.
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You still lift? How's your strength now compared to when you were younger?
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Originally Posted By vContrast⏩
Do you have any regrets?
If I let them bother me. I wish I had been more productive in my younger years, instead of so much partying.
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Originally Posted By HarryFlashman⏩
You still lift? How's your strength now compared to when you were younger?
Actually very good. I said in an earlier post that I used to natural bodybuild. I was at about 225 with 20" arms and about a 38 waist on my way to my desired 34", and sustained a groin pull. A bad one. Its taken a lonnnnggggg time to rehab it, but I find that my strength has not gone away that bad. My goal is still to weight as much as I can with that 34" waist at 5' 10". Nomsayin?
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Originally Posted By bgill76⏩
Oh dear misc father. I beg of you to help me. I'm in a 2 yr relationship and sometimes it's good and sometimes we fight about like me sometimes changing plans (not big time changing) and there is no trust for something's because of a mistake I made. She gets mad a lot of things i do and tells me what to do a lot. I don't want to hurt her feelings If we break up because she's had a rough 19 year life. But then I also don't want to keep going and eventually hurt her worse. Also I sometimes think I want to move to a different city but she don't and she says if i love her then I will respect her opinion and it's not all about me. I feel like it's almost a great great relationship but it's just not quite there. She's a great girl but she doesn't hang out with her friends much and wants to be with me all the time. What do?
OK if you want a LTR (I assume you are going there, if not why would you care then) these are my rules for my 20 year old self:

YOU HAVE TO BE best friends. The great sex is not a reason for an LTR because somebody is gonna get bored.
YOU HAVE TO talk to each other. Don't use blame language like "you did" or "you said". Say it like this, what I though you did or said was...
YOU HAVE TO ask questions. Is this what you meant when you said... if not could you explain it.
YOU HAVE TO decide to ignore other hot women, They will be gettin in your face all the time, voluntarily and involuntarily. You will get older every year. but every year a gigantic group of women will be turning 18 and a bunch of them will be hot. Forgetaboutit if you got a LTR.
YOU HAVE TO like spending time together when you're not in the sack; again not a reason for LTR.

Hope that helps
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thanks dad,

is there an updated list on life tips somewhere ITT? post #?
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Originally Posted By Deenur⏩
Requests to keep this thread going
sure thing brah
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Thought this would be a good addition to this discussion, from a female friend on another forum on another site.
She answers the question: What is important?

"I can sum this up in one word. Chemistry. I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to define chemistry for years. And I finally gave up on that project. Chemistry between two people either IS........or it is not. If it is not there at first meeting, it is never going to be there.

Unfortunately, it is entirely possible for a woman to be wildly attracted to a man who has a personality she doesn't even really LIKE all that much. And that is definitely something to keep in mind. Because good character matters.........and it matters a lot. Having great sex with a man, who is otherwise a total crumbum when he climbs out of bed is unquestionably a real nightmare. And all of you ladies deserve better than settling for that.

In my case, I had to learn this lesson the tough way. I got involved with a man, who was all wrong for me, shortly after my daughter was killed. I was just so emotionally wrecked and depressed at the time that I didn't see the warning signs. He was the kind of guy that I had only read about in romance novels. I was too bogged down in grief to realize that it was all an act........and he was just playing me like a fish on a line. In spite of all the romantic words, I was just another face in a very long parade of women he had seduced.

I am ashamed to admit that it took me almost two years to wake up and realize that I deserved something a whole lot better than the one-dimensional "relationship" I had going on with this loser. But I finally wised up and kicked him out of my life. My best advice (to the ladies).......be very, very, VERY careful about who you allow to come into your life and into your heart. Don't let your raging hormones make decisions for you. There are still good, decent men out there. And, they are worth waiting for."
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Originally Posted By JamesA1990⏩
thanks dad,

is there an updated list on life tips somewhere ITT? post #?
No but maybe I can consolidate. After I get some writing done, a list about 25 more things on *bay, and go to some storage auctions, and practice some shooting, and and and
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Great thread, great read, inspiring me to sort various things out and make some lifestyle changes.

Thanks Deenur brah.
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Originally Posted By Aitchem⏩
Great thread, great read, inspiring me to sort various things out and make some lifestyle changes.

Thanks Deenur brah.
THANKS back!
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