For me, it would be that I smoke weed
That I’m pregnant. I was a tomboy and very masculine. This is as far away from masculine as I can be at least in a physical sense. It’s not as bad as I thought.
So many things! But mostly that I have a lot of wonderful friends. I was a pretty lonely child, awkward and uncool.
Thank jeebus you didn’t have to get married to the type of men in the community/cult we grew up in and pop out babies.
“You look just like dad. And that’s very disappointing.”
That I stopped playing Zelda AND Pokémon
How amazing computer games look now.
I mean, I’m impressed now, on behalf of ten year old me I suppose.
dude, youre still alive? congrats
i live in a different country and most of the day i speak a different language
65" 8K television.
75", only 4k.
are you a transformer?
Maybe…
Probably that I got charged by a deer in the middle of fucking nowhere on the tail end of a solo 150 mile gravel bike ride, Macguyvered that thing and rode home. That actually surprises me lol
I wasn’t an athletic or tough kid by any stretch (smallest kid in class and asthma to top it off) so he’d probably get a kick out of me running ultras, biking through mud 150 miles at a time, ditching the car and running to work
Imagining that you Macguyvered the DEER and rode IT home!
I actually landed on the deer and it got up without kicking me, but in my thoroughly concussed state I thought the best course of action was to just make some huge stream of thought facebook post and basically narrate my ordeal lol
But yeah I had a rottweiler-sized bruise on the left side of my body, shit was gnarly. It was a long ass night
It was a tired story until OH DEER it wasn’t anymore.
That my parents passed away.
That I never did Something Great™ with my life.
Didn’t become a rock star, didn’t cure cancer, didn’t invent a world changing technology, didn’t become a famous artist, etc.
I didn’t know specifically what I was aiming to do, but for some reason I assumed that i would do something that made a big impact on the world. I was totally convinced of it. And it’s not because my parents constantly told me that or anything. The closest i heard was a lot of “you have so much potential if you’d only apply yourself!” Ugh.
Do you have kids or a partner?
Because that made a significant impact on their world.
That’s exactly what i was trying to say. I don’t have the chance to make an impact on society at large, but i absolutely do make a very significant impact on the individual people in my personal circle, and that’s extremely valuable.
my parents had me convinced id magically save the world. made me feel like id never have to try, so i didnt. we see how that worked out lol
i didnt hear no bell
Maybe at your age. At my age almost all of the Something Great bells have rung. Don’t get me wrong, there are still plenty of very meaningful things i can accomplish, and many important impacts i can make on individual people’s lives, - but for me the possibility of doing something that has a broader impact on society is pretty much gone. But so what, the impact i can have on individual people’s lives is still very valuable, and my own subjective experience of life is just as important as anyone else’s! So i try to make my own experience of living as good as it can be!
How old are you? Ball park.
Old enough to have a significant amount of gray hairs, but not so old that it’s all gray
Ah, early 30’s
That’s one interpretation, but the description i gave includes a much larger range than that
I mean thats like what. fourth or fifth grade. I can’t even relate to who that was. flashes of memory at best. got a little more coherent ones from junior high but even high school and college are a blur.
My dick didn’t grow.
That in pretty much every single sense of the word I’m an absolutely pathetic loser.
I didn’t think I’d ever be anything special, but I also didn’t think I’d be 38 and single for going on a decade, living in someone else’s garage, working in a factory in a dead end position with no degree and not an ounce of self worth to even presume to choose a direction.
10 year old me couldn’t wait to be an adult, but after seeing me I think 10 year old me would never want to grow up knowing what I’d eventually become lol
Hey dude, I don’t know you and I don’t know anything about you. I do know that everyone, even people you would never expect, have value. You are amazing just for being you. If you find things you enjoy, do those things. 10 year old you may be prouder of you than you think, even if it’s because of how you have kept on going when things have gotten tough. I hope you feel that.
I appreciate the kind words! Empathy is proving to be increasingly more rare in society so I appreciate you wanting to express that.
10 year old would probably be proud you have a job, no responsibilities and can stay up on the Xbox or whatever all night.
