Men 30+, if you could go back and tell your 20-year-old self one thing, what would it be?
Men 30+, if you could go back and tell your 20-year-old self one thing, what would it be?
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Men 30+, if you could go back and tell your 20-year-old self one thing, what would it be?
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Don’t get married.
To be patient and wait for my wife. (My 20 year old self knew who that was at the time)
It’s big enough.
Buy Bitcoin
Everything I mean everything goes into bitcoin 🤣🤣🤣
Don’t smoke crack and meth at the same time whilst getting flogged by a large man named Keith on the night of August 20th.
Plenty of fish in the sea. She’s not worth the heartache
Travel more.
Your friends will ditch you. She won’t. Treat them accordingly.
If she cums first, you both win. If she cums several times before you she’ll tell her friends.
Nothing, that little know-it-all prick wouldn’t listen anyway.
Go to class.
Invest in bitcoin when the price is still low and sell when its on its peak
Fuck more!!!
Get sober sooner and enjoy time with your grandmother before she’s wheelchair bound. Be careful with your relationships
Stop drinking immediately.
I quit at 28, but if I could have 8 extra years of sobriety, I’d be much better off today. I did a lot of fucking damage.
Don’t worry about work so much. Go out, have fun, try to meet someone.
Finish college
Go stand on the street corners raving and yelling about an upcoming pandemic. People will think you’re a prophet in 2020.
Don’t be so quick to trust people/ make friends.
Omg. Be more confident, do the things you want to do and don’t worry about rejection. Once you are comfortable with rejection you can do anything. Appreciate being pain free and take care of your body. Workout and stretch. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.
Chasing your dream is fun and all, but most people never catch theirs. Take your other talents and find a good career with those, trust me when i tell you that your passion is better as a hobby.
My mom was a victim of sexual abuse and grew up with an alcoholic, angry father. Obviously because of those things she had a lot of baggage. She became an alcoholic herself and eventually got to the point where she was drinking 3L of wine a day. I heard her saying that she was trying to get the wine to do something she couldn’t do. Kill herself. She had multiple suicide attempts before that.
Because of my mom’s condition I sacrificed a lot to try and save her life. If I could go back I would tell myself there’s no point as she’s just going to off herself anyway.
Stick that eggplant into everything and enjoy
Protect your joints and start investing earlier.
It’ll be ok. Each phase of our lives brings new challenges, but no matter what happens, it’ll be ok. Just enjoy time with loved ones and cherish the relationships as opposed to the agonizing about situations and certain circumstances. At the end of life’s sagas, it’s all you will remember anyways; how you felt being with the ppl who really mattered. No car, shoes, watches, instagram likes or house will ever measure up to priceless good memories with those you love. And when ppl leave your life, you finally realize how irreplaceable they truly were.
“What the fuck dude”
Take that 3am phone call seriously.
You’re not gay but you are bi. And that’s okay.
And the God you believe in, you won’t in a few years anyway. So base your morality around what is ACTUALLY important. And not just what a church says.
The names of the women to avoid
Don’t get married.
Rather talk to 18yo and tell him to stay broken up with her and find a way to stay out around college during the summers so you don’t end up getting into dumb shit with her again at home.
Also, join the military like you wanted to.
Put yourself out there. Don’t spend your week just going between class and your dorm room, then driving home at the first opportunity on Friday.
Don’t take yourself too seriously.
Your first reaction is probably overkill
Keep in touch with friends
“This too shall pass”
Control what you can control
Get off the phone and meet people
Be vulnerable enough to fall in love
Don’t act on your feelings for that fellow camp staffer. You need to get more social experience and interaction. Also, go ahead and complete your university degree — don’t postpone it to try for any Teacher’s license.
I was in jail so I would say keep your head up you’ll be fine in no time.
Don’t have kids at 25
Start investing now and quit smoking
Don’t buy that goddamn house in Montevallo!
Don’t marry her
Marvel is owned by Disney. Star Wars is owned by Disney. Nation geographic too. You’ll be on Reddit posting this.
I used to be fairly in tune with startups back when the first big boom was taking place. I spent my money on fun and then told people with money where they should put theirs. Shoulda taken my own advice. I could have retired at 30.
Hell, on top of that I once had a document I wrote while I was in college. Facebook didn’t even exist yet. It was 10 ideas for startup internet businesses. I don’t have the document anymore, but somebody actually went ahead and had the time and money to make them a reality. I had predicted Amazon (in its current iteration), Facebook, Youtube, Flexport, Slack / Discord, and the modern version of Netflix among others. Of course, I didn’t have the connections or money and I also absolutely fucking hated Javascript, LOL.
Never . Get. Married.
Stop procrastinating.
Appreciate and take better care of that Land Cruiser.
Run away from her and invest heavily as planned.