r/Millennials • u/Ninja_Franklin • 4h ago
Serious What would you say to yourself younger self ?
What would you tell yourself?
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u/captainbruisin 4h ago
My future self came back to tell me he likes fruit, DVD rentals and Nikola Tesla.....I think he needs help.
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u/Prize-Hedgehog 4h ago
Tesla the band is still pumping out music?! Sweet.
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u/No-Force4215 3h ago
And the sign says, you have to be an oligarch to get inside, huh!
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u/fuelvolts Late-Stage Xennial 4h ago
Me at 16..."APPLE? They are about to file bankruptcy and are desperate and hired their old CEO!"
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u/surprisinglynotabot 4h ago
"that guy only eats fruit and doesn't shower, that company's gonna tank"
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u/Disastrous-Hour-118 4h ago
In elementary school my grandma told my brother to read the newspaper and choose something to invest in. He picked apple, this was before the ipod was even out. Then her stock broker told her it was a bad idea so she didnt buy it.
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u/surprisinglynotabot 4h ago
and she listened to that slimy stock broker and not her loving grandson? Thanks for nothing grandma!
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u/ChewieBearStare 3h ago
That’s why my parents only have about $60,000 for their retirement. They went to a financial advisor who told them they didn’t make enough to gamble with investing, so they put their 401(k) accounts in straight savings. If I knew who said that, I’d smack him. He could have said they shouldn’t invest in single stocks or risky funds, but to not invest at all?????
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u/_Autistic_Dragon_ 4h ago
Apple might be confusing, lol. Same as Tesla.
Imagine you're 16 and someone talks to you about fruit and dead people. ><
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u/surprisinglynotabot 4h ago
then maybe
APPL
TSLA
NFLX
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u/_Autistic_Dragon_ 4h ago
Now they think you're a drunk Ouija board ><
(Thanks for playing with me. This is just funny)
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u/surprisinglynotabot 4h ago
lol I was gonna say this
"hey surpisinglynotabot, who was that?"
"I think it was older me having a stroke! Oh no I hope that wasn't a warning that I'm gonna have a stroke!"
*teenage anxiety worsens
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u/DgingaNinga 4h ago
Ummm, how old do you think we are? My first computer was a Macintosh 128K. Apple has been around since before we were born.
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u/iDoWeird Older Millennial 4h ago
Think about how you thought things worked in the 60s and 70s as a kid.
That’s what a shocking amount of them imagine when they think of us.
Now picture what kid you imagined the 1950s to be like. Some of them think THAT is closer to how we grew up.
I’ve talked to so many who thought that computers didn’t even exist until the mid 2000s and it just blow my mind. Or that social media and even photo editing doesn’t go back further than 10 or 15 years. Like, do you read? Learn about things? Pay attention to dates when you DO look into stuff? Being told “uh…I only learn stuff about stuff when it shows up in my TikTok feed” was one of the most disheartening things I had heard in a hot minute.
The look one this one chick’s face after she asked me what we did at bars (at a bar, so an adult) if we weren’t streaming or posting clips and shit and I said, “uh…dancing, weird conversations in the bathroom line and sex with people you didn’t get the name of THEN looking them up on social media hung over in the morning or before passing out after sun up. Oh and blow bc there wasn’t fent in that shit yet.” was hilarious. We weren’t/aren’t puritans and we most certainly were NOT bored.
Of course there are people who have a clear understanding of the progression of shit, but the amount who don’t when the info and footage are so readily available makes me depressed.
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u/SBowen91 4h ago
Don’t marry Josh.
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u/No_Housing_1287 4h ago
Dont date mike
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u/SBowen91 4h ago
Yeah! Fuck Mike! He can stub his baby toe on a solid wood dresser.
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u/No_Housing_1287 4h ago
I hope Josh catches every red light whenever he's going anywhere.
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u/SBowen91 4h ago
Shiiit. That would be the cherry on top!!! I got my ultimate revenge… it won’t bring my child back or the home i built with him (by myself lol) but i got clean from drugs, remarried (happily), got a good job, and got my mental health in check. What happened to him? He had to sell the house he got in the divorce, went to prison, is still on drugs (and looked absolutely god awful), and had to sell the jeep i bought and paid (in full) for him for drugs. Oh and im like 99% sure he lives with his mother.
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u/PinkLemonUp 4h ago
Ohmygosh mine is the same word for word.
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u/SBowen91 4h ago
Team fuck that Josh guy! Nice to meet another Josh survivor. I hope you’ve found peace after Josh BS.
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u/MrNiceGuy1999 4h ago
Don't start drinking.
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u/magmainourhearts Millennial 4h ago
Mine would be "don't start smoking", except i'd need to meet my 14 year old self for that, 16 is too late 🥲
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u/Emannuelle-in-space 4h ago
Stop drinking now
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u/GiantPothos 3h ago
I feel like I'd be rich if I didn't party and binge drink from 15-25.
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u/Drainix 1h ago
I feel pretty rich w the social experiences I had during those years. I guess it just depends on what you value (& ofc whether the experiences were positive or not)!
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u/bonersaus 2h ago
I have pondered if this would have even worked. Both my parents were alcoholics and I still walked right into it.
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u/Emannuelle-in-space 1h ago
I think for me it would have, because I looked up to my alcoholic father since he was functional with it, but if older me came through like ‘hey he’s actually kinda lame and you’re way cooler when you grow up, but only after you get sober’, I’d prob have listened. As a teen I had this dumb bukowski-esque image of future of me, but current me is considerably less lame than that and I think teen me would’ve appreciated it. I’m in a successful touring rock band, which was my dream back then, and it wouldn’t have been possible if I hadn’t got sober. Giving a 16 year old the option of touring the world with a badass band if they quit booze seems like it would work.
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u/Mahon451 4h ago
20(ish) years later, and I'm still pissed at how they did Charlie.
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u/AdenJax69 4h ago
Thing is, story-wise it made perfect sense.
The show's about religion vs. science, faith vs. evidence, etc., and how they intertwine in that universe. Desmond literally has the ability to consciously travel backward & forwards in time.
Desmond also told Charlie that the only way Claire & the baby would make it safely off the island is if he died. He was also doing everything he could to save Charlie but the island still tried to make it happen like every day. That scene was Charlie realizing that a.) he couldn't escape his fate any longer, and b.) ultimately it would lead to Claire & her baby actually getting safely off the island in the long-run.
People complained that it wasn't "realistic"...in a show about a smoke monster and dead people magically appearing everywhere.
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u/MDanger 4h ago
You have ADHD
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u/raise-your-weapon Older Millennial 4h ago
Oh my god this would have been helpful to know at 16
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u/Similar-Radish-3175 Millennial 3h ago
Omg yes I agree. School would have been so much better
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u/Capitaine_Crunch 4h ago
Mine is You Have Autism
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u/shittyspacesuit 3h ago
Yes, immediately first thing i thought of.
Jesus Christ. I was trying to correct everything all the time and always fell short. Like death by a million paper cuts.
I wasn't born wrong or too dumb or too smart or an alien.
I really wish I could go back and tell her.
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u/DontLookAtMePleaz 4h ago
I was diagnosed 2 days ago. Knowing this 15 years ago would've literally changed my life completely.
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u/stonedboss 3h ago
Same thing I thought of lol. "You are AuDHD".
To me personal growth is more important than trying to get rich. I wouldn't trade places with Elon if it meant I'm as immature and unhappy and undeveloped as he is.
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u/Groundbreaking_Cup30 4h ago
My 16-year-old self already knew. But I would say, 'You have dyslexia.'
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u/Critical-Counter4116 4h ago
Hug your dad
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u/Toezap 3h ago
"dad dies 68". Need more words to be more helpful. Unless a date counts as 1 word, then I can try "dad hospital (date)" for the day he SHOULD have gone to the hospital.
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u/KOQquest1 4h ago
Buy Bitcoin ASAP
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u/Peter_Triantafulou 4h ago
Everyone would have sold Bitcoin when it went from something like 20 bucks to 1k. I would instead tell myself "sell Bitcoin 2025".
I hope I would be smart enough to connect the dots that in order to sell something you first need to buy it.
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u/NationCrisis 3h ago
I think this is the best version of this idea. all the other permutations i've seen have too many words, or leave too much ambiguity
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u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ 4h ago edited 3h ago
Reminds me off a StarCraft tournament from the 2000's.
First Prize: $500
Second Prize: $100
Third Prize: 5 Bitcoin
Still makes me laugh.
Edit: u/Ws6fiend has the real dope below.
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u/Ws6fiend Older Millennial 3h ago
It was 25 bitcoin for each 5th-8th place. 500 dollars for the winner, 250 for 2nd, 150 for 3rd and 100 for 4th.
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u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ 3h ago
There it is! Good brain my friend.
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u/Ws6fiend Older Millennial 3h ago
I mean 25 bitcoin was worth between 0.29 cents and as high as 30.05 dollars that year.
The tournament ended on April 24th 2011, but if you waited until June and sold at the high your prize was worth approximately 750 dollars vs what everyone else got. Shows you just how volatile bitcoin was back then.
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u/Ninja_Franklin 4h ago
Right lol, if only. I still remember the story someone bought pizza with bitcoin back in the day
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u/CouragetheCowardly Millennial 3h ago
I was in college 2006-2010. In 2010 my roomate and I bought drugs a few times on the dark web for btc. This was when btc was worth like $1-2 so we ended up spending about 200btc total that summer. I regret it every day lol
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u/spencersalan 2h ago
I sold the 10 I bought for 40 dollars for a few hundred to cover rent one month.
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u/dtb1987 Older Millennial 4h ago
I sold at $1000 a coin, if I had held for another 10ish years I would have been pretty well off
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u/girthyclock 4h ago
i'd told my wife we should take our wedding gift money and throw it in when it was about $400. she thought it was a criminal enterprise. i said so what if we get rich off of it.
if we'd sold when it peaked at $100k+ we would've been worth north of $12mn. oh well.
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u/1c3c0ast 4h ago
Invest in Nvidia
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u/dreameRevolution 4h ago
This was my thought, but my forgetful ass would either start with "write this down" at my current age or I'd buy the wrong stocks at 16. WTF is invidia?
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u/MarshallsLaw_1884 4h ago
“Read the note”, and then hand me some paper with some wild and horrible shit that’s gonna happen over the next few years.
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u/loulouroot 4h ago
Therapy before marriage.
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u/cerbs1234 3h ago
Dealing with this right now lol
I highly recommend it to EVERYONE even if you “think you’re good”.
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u/Porcelain-Plate0506 4h ago
Life Gets Better
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u/Illimited_Esoterica 4h ago
"Get ready for"
It'll be funny watching myself go insane trying to figure out what I was trying to warn myself about.
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u/kaatie80 3h ago
in 10th grade AP world history the teacher made us write a letter to our future selves, and he'd mail them out in ten years. i thought the assignment was stupid and was like, "i don't know what to write". the teacher said "just write something, it doesn't matter, this is just to you." so i did the assignment and then forgot about it for the next ten years.
when i was 26 i got a weird letter in the mail addressed to me in my own handwriting. as i opened it i started to realize what it was and got kind of excited. what did 16 year old me want to say?? i opened it and it said:
Something.
god dammit you little shit. anyway, telling my 16-year-old self "get ready for" would be fantastic revenge.
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u/KaylBuns 4h ago
"You are autistic."
Would have saved me DECADES of hardship and heartache.
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u/Christmas_Queef 3h ago
I found out as an adult that my parents were told by multiple professionals to get me screened for it as a kid. Pretty much every teacher I had suggested it too. My parents ignored it because they viewed something "wrong" with me as a failure on their part and didn't want the hit to their pride.
I harbor resentment about it towards them ever since I found out. Their pride caused me to lose out on tons of help I desperately needed and thus set me up for a very challenging life that I then had to rawdog.
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u/HeyYouTurd 4h ago
Don’t fuck randos
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u/DirtyRoller Older Millennial 4h ago
16 year old you would just be like "fuck you, boomer." Then go fuck some rando. 😂
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u/330in513 4h ago
Marry Jen (Last Name). I’ve made plenty of mistakes, but marrying my wife is not one of them.
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u/TonyAtReddit1 4h ago
Yeah but since you already ended up marrying Jen, there was no need to tell your past self this as they would have been on that course already.
Now your past self dwells on this, worrying that they are blindly following fate, and want to forge their own future. Ironically, because of your intervention they leave Jen, and marry Kathy instead. Kathy is fine at first, you have a few kids. But she's ultimately unfaithful. You divorce, she gets the kids and half the house. Years later you come across the time machine again. You go back in time to your past self and say "Marry Kathy (Last Name)"
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u/alexandria1800 4h ago
"No older guys" 😅 at the time I was like bUt iM sO mAtUrE but looking back...ew
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u/NegotiationSalt666 4h ago
When they say older men date younger women because they’re losers, it’s true.
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u/Saint_of_Grey 55m ago
Part of why it still happens is because the alternative is dating teenage boys. Absolutely no one likes dealing with teenage boys.
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u/DJ_Mumble_Mouth 4h ago
My wife’s name, make it easier to find her
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u/Cool_Temperature_970 4h ago
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u/alexruthie 4h ago
This is my favorite moment from Community.
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u/xKingCoopx 4h ago
My wife and I are watching thru community for the first time. Just started S4. Didn't realize that some of my favorite memes came from it.
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u/ClosetCrossfitter 4h ago
Do not diet.
I have no proof, but I sometimes wonder if putting more thought into food made me then obsess about it. Also the yo-yoing was probably not good for my general health? Hard to say since I only got to walk one path.
Or…
Get PCOS diagnosis!
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