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Or if you're not much past 19, then your younger self?
I would tell myself to chill out, and that I don't need to have all my life line up in perfect order by the time I'm 21.
Get a job you like.
one in the bum IS harm done.
Get out of the rat race. Now.
two things:
- don't try and race that MR2, the thermostat's gone and you're going to crack a cylinder head
- you've left the filler cap back at the petrol station
#carsareexpensive
She’s not the one.
keep the records and sell the drugs NOT the other way round
People will pay £3 for a cup of coffee.
People will pay £3 for a cup cake.
No, really they will. Get in 'that game' now!!
DrP
Riding your GSX-R everywhere at double the speed limit is going to hurt and you're going to get banned
STOP SMOKING CIGARETTES!
Think for yourself and don't let anyone tell you you can't do something. Choose something you love and stick with it.
Nope, don't let it last more than a couple of years. Then move to Europe and never look back.
Art college might a be great laugh, but think about what you're going to do afterwards.
Do maths not aeronautical engineering.
Buy 500 Microsoft shares on 31/03/86 and sell on 01/12/1999
Go to the GP, say you're struggling with grief related depression, get some help rather than retreating into an alcoholic fug....
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Don't be a dick.
grow up
you are not all that tough really
be patient
learn humility
Don't waste your working life grafting your nuts off, it won't get you anywhere.
Nothing, wasted breath.
No this isn't the way everyone else feels. Get help.
Spend more time with your dad, he won't be here for long.
You don't have to jump down every flight of stairs.
MSP - MemberDon't waste your working life grafting your nuts off, it won't get you anywhere.
Funnily enough that's what I did tell myself at 19! 😆
That Louise is nothing but trouble.
Buy those bitcoins 🙁
Go and do the fully-funded PhD studentship in Sweden 😕
Uni, make a call, either work hard and do it properly or quit and move on. Either is fine, staying and messing around for another 2 years then failing your final year is a huge waste of time and money.
Elaine from the union will invite you back to her house after a shift behind the bar. Do not turn the offer down, she'll not offer again.
The girl you will shortly start going out with, she wants serious things and you absolutely do not. Make the call and move on, both of you will be happier in the long run.
Richard is a good guy but not someone you would want to share a house with, move in with the other lot, you'll end up there in the end anyway.
Vanessa, the girl you'll meet in The Works is fit, clever and interested, so when you turn up to visit her in Oxford don't turn up with a hangover so bad you can't keep a bagel and a pint down. You'll never hear from her again if you do...
In 18 years your wife will get so depressed that you feel more helpless than you've ever felt in your life. Look for the signs and see if you can help before it gets to that point. But if you don't, that's OK, it's not your fault, and she does get better, just be there.
Top right.
That's where it's coming from..
You won't go blind.
Don't drink, buy even more property.
Dont worry, I still dont know what I want to do when I grow up and nothing too bad has happend yet.
Think I'd play a practical joke on myself. Something like "Buy some Gary Glitter gold discs, he becomes a national treasure and they will be worth loads".
like to think I'd find it funny.
Go to UNI it is actually a good idea. But thinking back it did say that to myself 😀 but I didn't listen to myself then and probably wouldn't again 🙁
You live in Halifax, buy a bike you lazy bastard.
Think I'd play a practical joke on myself. Something like "Buy some Gary Glitter gold discs, he becomes a national treasure and they will be worth loads".
like to think I'd find it funny.
😆 like it
“Don’t become a victim of distraction, don’t let distraction become hours, those hours become days, those days become weeks, become years, become a lifetime”
1. If you actually do some revision, you'll get better grades.
2. [i]Don't[/i] become a primary school teacher.
3. In about five years time, the house three doors down will be for sale. Buy it, then sell it three years later and pay off your mortgage aged 28.
Do not smoke.
Stay out of the sun.
Look after your teeth.
Spend time with your parents.
Learn a musical instrument.
Ask out that girl you like even though you might be punching.
Learn to ski or snowboard, you will have the best holidays for the rest of your life.
In your first year at uni:
Play more sport, but don't give up riding your bike.
Drinking every night is not a good idea.
Don't get glandular fever from your mate's flatmate.
Don't mess Debs around. She doesn't deserve that.
Stay away from Louise and Amy - they are not worth the hassle.
being a teenager is hell, it gets a lot easier
ask a girl out for coffee. just do it
over the next 5 years try to find a sensible balanced between getting ratted and working hard. And don't spunk all that insurance money from the sampler on booze and drugs
In the future people will make a great living from playing video games and talking shite on this thing called youtube, buy a camera now and start practicing.
Stay away from your mate’s Mrs.
Get as messed up as you like at University. That is what it is for. Just wind it in at revision time, as resits really spoil summer drinking.
I’d tell the 19 year old me to go out into the world and do what you think is right at the time, make the same mistakes and end up where I am now a whole lot wiser and mentally stronger than I would be if someone had given me a road map rather than letting me live those highs and lows.
working hard is just hard work it gets you no where. go to university. pick a job with a pension at 50.. oh and youve already got a knackered heart be careful.. as for the ladies.. that nurse with a transit van TROUBLE.. the blonde on the checkouts work on it.. the curly haired one.. not pretty at 50..
Don't bother with uni. Waste of time and money. Pointless social expectation. Do the job I'm doing now, but get in younger and benefit from the final salary pension.
I would say don't bother with Uni but I met Mrs Matt there.
So instead, go to Uni but don't spend three years spending your student loan on vast quantities of alcohol and weed. Also, don't go back to the Rez on St Patricks Day because you'll fall down the stairs and knacker your ankle.
Oh, and don't buy that mini no matter how much you want it because it's basically rust held together with paint and will only last a few months.
surf more.
Don't keep putting things off, do it now.
Don't doubt yourself, actually you can do it. Have a bit more belief.
Dump the cigarettes, they are not cool, big or clever.
Wear a condom
Talk to somebody about how you feel. You can’t keep being angry, high or drunk. It’s not healthy or normal.
Spend more time with your brother.
Aim for a career, not just a job.
Ride the bike more
Go to University. Avoid getting a 'proper' job for as long as possible.
Ashley was definitely up for it.
Don't be so bloody uptight, twenty four years later you'll figure out that quite a few girls were hitting on you. Some of them were definitely hinting at sexehteims.
Oh and don't allow your car to be serviced by a certain East Anglian VW specialist. They'll ruin it.
Don't worry about it, it'll be finneeeeee
Start learning to manual. 30 years of practicing would hopefully have paid off
[list][*]Move house.[/*]
[*]Start a pension[/*]
[*]Girls want sex as much as boys do. Some of them even want it with you.
[/*][*]VHS video cassettes will not become collector's items.
[/*][*]Come to that, nor will any "limited edition" media.
[/*][*]In the future you'll hear of a thing called "bitcoins." Buy as many as you can. Sell them in 2017.
[/*][/list]
Something about 'Louise'...
Nothing, because all the bad things happened in my life but would affect my current life if I changed the earlier part.
I wouldn't change any of the life I have now, so anything that may affect that is a no!
1)Yes, she is a psycho, & no she's not worth it no matter how great her boobage is.
2)When you have the opportunity to do a winter boarding in Japan take it, dont think its ok I'll do it next year. Life and kids get in the way.
Oh yes, just though of another one.
Go and live overseas for a while. It doesn't matter where you go or what you do. Gives you a much broader perspective on life, people and the planet.
Your future wife is a peach and is staying at your parents house for the next two weeks, here's the money for a train ticket make sure you pop back this weekend - for God sake don't wait 28yrs before hooking up.
When the bank offered you a mortgage take it and buy a flat rather than deciding to buy a XR2 fiesta. Probably my worse ever financial decision!! circa 1985 - what a muppet.
Pull your bloody finger out.
But then, I say that to myself daily and I still don't listen.
Loose some weight now, especially before you hit 20st and knacker your ankle
Go live abroad for longer than one year
Don't turn down the free masters and the easy route into academia
You do realise how much a year you spend on drink don't you??
Don't loose your fitness it's a bugger to get back later in life.
This ones s bit tricky as I'd not have the four cherubs I have now but .... when you're in your mid 20s and look at emigrating to Canada just bloody do it don't think about it just go!
'You'll be moving to South France in a few years time. Don't come back'
When you get offered that job in the middle east teaching the sprt you love takeit!! Your own ambitions in the sport will be blown along with your knee!!
Get that lump on your neck checked.
buy a house earlier
don't have credit cards
don't stop riding your bike in your teens, you'll lose all you wheelie skills
I'd probably say:
1. Buy a house. Even if you rent it out just buy one ASAP.
2. Don't stay in a relationship that's not worth it.
I'm pretty sure that my 19 year old self didn't listen to much advice...
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Stop taking drugs, it will cost you a fortune, your relationships and your sanity.
Move out of your mums house become independent sooner. Try and put some money in the bank for a house rather than up your nose.
Keep your friends close.
Dont bother with drugs* dont expect the world to fall into your lap.
*mushrooms try once 😉
Get a job you enjoy and travel more .
Work harder at uni, a 1st get's you discounts on MSc's when you're broke and need one in 10 years time.
Beyond that I graduated in 2008 just after the oil price crashed then rebounded, just as the financial crash happened and a few years before the oil tanked again, so work was never going to be plain sailing, and I was just a bit too late to get a deposit and house sorted whilst prices were still going up at double digit rates.
So whatever I did wouldn't help, except maybe go back a few more years and tell my 16yr old self to be a Dr instead of an engineer.
Basicly being a millennial sucks mostly for external reasons so:
Shoot Farage or buy $ in early 2016. That or emigrate whilst it's still £1:$2.
Do a ski season.