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Alia	Reflecting	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1671 (03/16/03 12:12 PM) Umma Regent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Hallo everyone. It's been a long time since I posted something that involved some thinking here, huh? I'll accept the due punishment, hehe. Anyway, it's spring break for us here in New York and some of you might know what lots of spare time leads to for me - a lot of thinking. But it really hasn't been bad this time. I was just wondering if you were to go back, say 10 years, where would you be? And especially, what would your 10 year younger self think of the person you've become? I hope we haven't done this before. I'm so out of it. Someone please go first, if not I'll be back later to give my story. --Alia
Nicholas	Re: Reflecting	#1	[-]
Posts: 6698 (03/16/03 7:06 PM) SARS Incubator Dictator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My 11 year-old self would think that my 21 year-old self is pretty damned cool. No, seriously. He would. But at the same time, he'd be kind of wary because the 21 year-old me really dislikes children, especially the overly talkative type like my 11 year-old self -- and I think he'd be perceptive enough to realize that. I'll add more soon. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
Alia	Re: Reflecting	#2	[-]
Posts: 1671 (03/16/03 10:04 PM) Umma Regent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That's too bad... it's a good thing you two can never meet. Ehehe... I realized earlier today that if some of you were to go back 10 years, you wouldn't have the mental capacity to even consider looking 10 years into the future, (unless you were some baby genius or something, uh yeah). So you can go back 5 years. Unless you want to be really creative, then hell with it, do 10.
SuperJarrad	Re: Reflecting	#3	[-]
Posts: 633 (03/17/03 8:59 PM) COBRA Commander Psych WarOps Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I was 11 years old going on 12. Sixth grade. Hmmmm... I think my 11 year old self would like my current self, but would be a tad bit disappointed with how some things eventually turn out. However, my 11 year old self would be happy to see how much good luck was on his way. Young me would be glad to see that he got to go to college. I would get along fine with my younger self. I might feel a bit sorry for him, but we could play video games and read comics together. I'd tell him to take more risks. "A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
Alia	Re: Reflecting	#4	[-]
Posts: 1671 (03/19/03 12:21 PM) Umma Regent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That's pretty cool, Jarrad. I think my 9 year old self would feel similar. Back then I thought I could do anything, so I probably expected myself to wind up in some very prestigious school, un... right, heh. My younger self was also more realistic in some ways, and I lost that for a few years. I stopped doing things that were me... I've only started drawing again recently. Maybe it had to do with the lack of spare time I had in high school, maybe it was just being a teenager who cared too much about what other people thought. Yeah... I think myself today is a lot more like myself 10 years ago, then say, two. And if who I am now is the real me, then I'm very glad I'm back. Jarrad has a good idea, if you could give yourself any advice, what would it be? I'd tell myself not to worry too much, everything's not lost.
Nicholas	Re: Reflecting	#5	[-]
Posts: 6698 (03/19/03 12:49 PM) SARS Incubator Dictator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Heh. "Try not to change too much, boy." In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
Texas Republic Agent	Re: Reflecting	#6	[-]
Posts: 422 (03/19/03 5:58 PM) Muchacho Man Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My 10-year-younger self would probably be rather intimidated by me. I regret my memory is not so great, but I do remember a few things. My young self got on a lot of people's nerves, was a bit loud (when stimulated by anxiety or anger), and was liable to pass himself off as a jackass so people wouldn't think he was a weakling. Well, I was better-looking then too, and of course I'd just gotten my dog so that made up a little for my petty self-absorption... If I were to meet this young fool, I would probably feel a bit sorry for him, but I'd probably hate him too. What advice would I give? I'd tell him to "Cool it, son." Cool it. He'd probably then look at my present, awesome self, and at my present not so awesome dog who's too old to do anything fun anymore, and hit me or something belligerent like that. That's just my opinion though.
Alia	Re: Reflecting	#7	[-]
Posts: 1671 (03/20/03 2:23 PM) Umma Regent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Your younger self reminds me of someone I used to know... Sometimes I wonder if I were to meet the people I knew back then, if I would still like them. I'm thinking no, haha. But then again, maybe I never liked them in the first place. Aha! There we go. To my younger self: Don't listen to what stupid people say about you.
Nicholas	Re: Reflecting	#8	[-]
Posts: 6698 (04/20/03 9:24 AM) SARS Incubator Dictator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	11 year-old Nicholas: Hi! 21 year-old Nicholas blearily returns a blank stare. 11 year-old Nicholas: Umm. Are you okay? He looks up and becomes captivated with what appears to be a shelf-full of toys. For a while, he stares at a slinky with hungry eyes. 21 year-old Nicholas: T- ... Tired. 11 year-old Nicholas: Why don't you get some sleep? 21 year-old Nicholas: There's ... stuff. To do. 11 year-old Nicholas: Oh. You don't look very good though. 21 year-old Nicholas: ... 11 year-old Nicholas: Hey, so ... Points up at the shelf. Will you be using that slinky? 21 year-old Nicholas: No. 11 year-old Nicholas: ... With an audible groan, 21 year-old Nicholas* reaches up and grabs the coil of wire, considering various homicidal applications before handing it to the smiling boy.* 11 year-old Nicholas: Thanks! ... Tests the slinky once or twice in his hands. ... Yeah. Well. Bye! 21 year-old Nicholas: ... In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
SuperJarrad	Re: Reflecting	#9	[-]
Posts: 633 (04/20/03 10:12 AM) COBRA Commander Psych WarOps Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Omigod! What would happen if you killed your eleven year old self?! Would you destroy the fabric of the space-time continuum? "A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
ljim2000	Re: Reflecting	#10	[-]
Posts: 4512 (04/20/03 7:08 PM) Audio Ambassador Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	If I went back ten years I'd be so much the same person it's spooky. O.k., my hair is shorter now, and the woman in my life is different than then, but otherwise that's about it. What would be shocking would be a look at the ten years in between, which I don't regret but certainly wouldn't want to continue with. 26 year old me would probably find all that action pretty cool too, but be happy I mellowed out again by 36. Otherwise 46 wouldn't be looking like too hopeful of a prospect.

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