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Advice for your 21-year-old self

I would give myself two pieces of advice:
1) Once you have responsibilities, you have to be responsible. But while you are young and free, you should take some chances.
2) Start saving for retirement early.

I realize they are sort of contradictory but that's too bad.

CBL
 
1. If there is a girl you are interested in that seems to have some sort of Peter Pan complex you might want to know why that is instead of getting seriously involved. It may never go away and it ain't pretty when that woman is in her 30's acting as if she is in her early 20's.
 
Advice to younger self: Someday you will meet a drop dead gorgeous bartender in Mississippi who drinks as much as you do and who is great in bed and can't get enough. She is also crazy as a loon. DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT MARRY HER!!!!
 
Advice to younger self: Someday you will meet a tall, lanky, sultry brown-eyed beauty from Upper Michigan who is very, very good in bed and can't get enough. She is also crazy as a loon. DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT SLEEP WITH HER! RESIST!!!
 
Greeting me at 21. The lotto numbers and stock market values for 2004 are: ..........
 
Advice to younger self: Someday a couple of your shipmates will invite you to go to a whorehouse in Puerto Rico. The women there will do anything if the money is right. You and your shipmates will also end up in an extremely violent bar fight with five bouncers over a chicken dinner. You will suffer no harm, but your rental car will be destroyed. DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT GO TO THAT WHOREHOUSE!!!!
 
Luke T. said:
Advice to younger self: Someday a couple of your shipmates will invite you to go to a whorehouse in Puerto Rico. The women there will do anything if the money is right. You and your shipmates will also end up in an extremely violent bar fight with five bouncers over a chicken dinner. You will suffer no harm, but your rental car will be destroyed. DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT GO TO THAT WHOREHOUSE!!!!
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Why not just tell your younger self "Don't drive to the whorehouse"?

Also, have you considered that you of today are a sum-total of your past experiences, that includes the aforementioned by you lapses in judgement.

If you correct every percieved mistake you ever made you may not like your new self.
 
Grammatron said:
Why not just tell your younger self "Don't drive to the whorehouse"?

Also, have you considered that you of today are a sum-total of your past experiences, that includes the aforementioned by you lapses in judgement.

If you correct every percieved mistake you ever made you may not like your new self.
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I think about it all the time. That is why I did not mention my first wife. Even though the marriage itself was an unmitigated disaster, my oldest son is a product of it, and he makes it all worth it.

It is true that there were a hell of a lot of lessons I learned from my second marriage that I otherwise might never have learned, and I certainly wouldn't be who I am today.

The whorehouse experience was a total wash. Besides the fight, the hooker was the least satisfying sexual experience of my life. And without the car, we would not have been able to effect the rescue of our two shipmates who were the catlyst of the fight. Long story.
 
Advice to younger self: If you happen to meet the younger Luke T, run away from him really fast. NO, FASTER! :D
 
Oh, hey and my advice to myself. "Self," I'd say, "I know you're so left-handed that you can't successfully adjust the temperature of the shower right-handed, but learn to golf right handed anyway. Trust me on this. At worst, you won't be any more bad at it than you're destined to be from the left."
 
Advice to younger gnome:

Don't find the perfect girl and wait two years for her to become attracted to you. If it was going to happen, it would have much sooner.
 
Ipecac said:
Advice to younger self: If you happen to meet the younger Luke T, run away from him really fast. NO, FASTER! :D
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Luke does seem to have lived an ehm.. Interesting life, doesn't he.
 
Start exercising, and lay off the fast food. You really will pay later if you don't!

Edited to add: Put everything you have into Microsoft. Sell your car, your kidney if you can arrange it, screw college use the student loans, etc..
 
note to younger self: Don't start smoking and watch for oil slicks when riding a motorcycle.
 
1) Kiss her.

2) Drop differential equations, change majors now.

3) Don't drink the water, and 'Manos arriba' means 'hands up'.

4) Stop by Rome Inn and listen to the band.

5) Your friends don't know $#!+.
 
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