What advice would you give your younger self?

[willin woodworks]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Learn when to just shut the fork up.....

[Garret]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Learn when to just shut the fork up.....

I'd have to know that now to deal able to tell me then...

[leikec]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Travel as much as possible. See as many different places as you can. It becomes much more difficult with age.

Jeff C

[Ted Hoppe]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Sunscreen, long sleeves and a hat!

[ERGR]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Whatever I did when young led me to where I am now. I'm perfectly content with where life has brought me so far. I see no reason to give my younger self any advice that might alter the course.
/Erik

[bluedog225]

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[CWSmith]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Sunscreen, long sleeves and a hat!

...a hat with a brim to protect the ears - no ball caps. That's where my skin cancer first showed up.

[CWSmith]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Spin, you started this, but I don't see your advice anywhere.

[John Smith]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Had to give this some thought. I had a horrible bike accident one day. The hand brake handle attached to the handle bars fell into the wheel, which brought the wheel to a very sudden stop. Bike, with me on it, kept going up and over the stopped front wheel. This was the most horrible fall I've had my entire life. Somehow I survived without braking anything.

Lesson learned: Every once in a while check to see if all the nuts and bolts are tight. Safety check for all things now and then became to me a wise thing to do.

[McMike]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

I married a woman with a five year old daughter, we subsequently produced a son. We did the formal adoption thing a year or so later. That daughter is now an exceptionally wonderful mother in her own right, and having her in my life is one of he very best things ever.

I am sure that there are lots of exceptions to all of the other points, and am sorry if those are what your lifes experiences have left you with.

John Welsford

I've known many a successful step families . . . I've know far more that sucked. The big indicator is if the counterpart parent is out of the picture or not. There's a lot of mixed signals and hard feelings if not and that transfers to the children. That and, I simply didn't enjoy being a parent. I was good at it, good at the functionality of being a parent, but I never felt joy in it. Children deserve their parents to take joy in raising them. I was not raised with joy and lost the ability to feel it a long time ago. I should have listened to my better judgement, but I didn't. I would never do that over if I had the chance to. My ex didn't make things easy either, an understatement, but I can only take responsibility for myself and my choices.

As for what I'm left with . . . this wasn't about that. This was about things I'd do differently. My life is fine despite my missteps and better now that I follow these bits of advice. My advice to myself is a bit different than what I'd give to someone else. In fact, my advice to younger people is a bit different for a few reasons. Broadly, because they are not me. But also, because everyone has to experience the results of their actions themselves, there are few young people who actually listen anyway. But yeah, I can't complain about my life presently, I'm finally starting to reap the benefits of many years of hard work, I love where I live, I love my job, and I am the luckiest guy in the world in regards to my wife.

[rbgarr]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Take my shots with more of the girls I admired.

[Chip-skiff]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Don't pick fights for the fun of it.

[TerryLL]

Re: What advice would you give your younger self?

Follow your bliss.