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One of the wise people of antiquity once said that everyday experience is a collection of mistakes accumulated by a person throughout their life. A person learns from some mistakes, some they simply try not to repeat, and some of these mistakes they alas repeat all throughout their life.

Recently, the so-called "Letters to Myself" genre has been very popular on the internet, where famous and not-so-famous people describe different mistakes they made at a young age and tell what they would do differently taking into account the knowledge that they have now. Unfortunately, in one's teen years, it is difficult to believe and accept some of the life facts that seem so obvious later.

A few days ago, a question was asked in the AskReddit community directly on this topic: "What are teens today not ready to hear?" As of today, the resulting thread has about 44.2K upvotes and over 26.7K various comments, where people in adulthood and older tell which life lessons the youth should definitely learn.

Yes, the thread looks a bit boomerish, but the ancients didn't say in vain: "Forewarned is forearmed." Bored Panda has put together a list of the most popular comments from the original thread for you, so please feel free to scroll to the very end, mark the submissions you like the most and of course share your own life lessons in the comments.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Being controversial isn't the same as being interesting.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Playing music on your speakers in public areas makes you look like a complete douchebag. Nobody likes it but you.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And talking on your phone on speaker in public falls in the same category.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) It’s okay to be a virgin at 18

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Nathan Wolfe
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*regardless of your sexuality*. Fixed it for you. Doesnt matter what your sexuality is, its fine to be a virgin at any age.

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A Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

same with being in the 30's. You owe nobody your body.

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Paul Greer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made it too 24 , 33 years still married so glad I waited.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right on! I got married at 22 and my first ob checkup the nurse couldn't belive i was a virgin, actually wanted to know if my mom needed to step out so we could talk. I was like no! I have not had sex and don't intend to until my wedding night. My love was my first and only and we have been together 26years, Married 24 of them. No regrets in waiting at all!

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Sapna Sarfare
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

or at any age... life is a bag of different things. And each bag is different for different people.

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BadCat
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I couldn't even date much in Junior High and High school. One guy I had a crush on, managed to ask him for his number. The first thing he wanted to do was phone sex. I hadn't even had sex at the time at all, and I wasn't comfortable with getting that intimate with someone. But apparently it's a requirement if you're 15+ with guys. It was okay that I stayed single after that, and the guy I once had a crush on seemed like an ugly a*****e after.

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Lin B
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s ok to be a virgin whatever your age. Make sure your first time is right for YOU.

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Vera Hilman
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. My religion said to stay virgin before marriage, man or woman. I was virgin until my marriage at 29. Maybe it will look weird for some generations, but for my religion, having sex before/outside marriage is a big sin.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's okay to also admit sex isn't a huge need for yourself if it doesn't feel that way. Trust your body and how you feel and surround yourself with people who respect that.

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Not everyone likes the idea of sex.if your not comfortable with it, don't do it. Sex is a responsibility it's not for kids or people experiencing serious emotional problems.

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Roxas
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's always good to wait I've lost a friend who didn't want to wait she was only 15 and her mother said that's she's too young and needs to wait till she's 18 so her body is more mature and can handle it but she got pregnant and sadly passed away cause it put too much stress on her body and her mother was absolutely devastated.

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Mathias Viera
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's okay to live your sexuality the way you want. You will know for sure when the moment comes, just stay safe and wear protection.

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WordiGirl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 24 and still waiting for the right person. I have a weird mentality and philosophy on things. I want to be platonic friends first, but I haven't really met anyone who feels the same. If they aren't out there, I'll just remain satisfied single with Jesus. God bless you all. 🙏💛

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idk if this helps, but you might be demisexual, meaning you have to have a platonic attraction with someone before you get sexual attraction! It's a perfectly normal sexuality and is part of the ace spectrum. Then again, you could not be ace at all, but just prefer knowing someone better first. -a aroace

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And you can be whatever you are to be a virgin. You don't have to be disinterested in sex. You can also be interested in it and just not want to.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its more than okay it Trust me your mom is proud of you for this reason and more.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Totally ok! You can be one when your 70, for god's sake. Its not like you have to make any decisions when your a teenager over peer pressure.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also ok to be a virgin at 25, or at 30, or 40, or 64... Your sexual status should be between you and whomever you choose to share it with, on whatever level.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely! Being a virgin is not shameful, it shows discipline and strength. I have never heard that anyone has died from not having sex.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its ok to NOT being a virgin as well... Its everyones personal choice...people still putting sex on a pedestal like it will bring them closer to there creator if the wait till marriage cracks me up. Its sex, every animal on earth does it. Its not precious, or special, its chemical reactions. My only advice...bring a towel its messy 🤣

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And it’s ok not to be a virgin at 18. Virginity has no intrinsic value, it’s mostly a cultural definition - don’t take it too seriously either way.

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Michael Largey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your body has many virginities. Give them away selectively. Your heart has many virginities. Give them away wisely. Your soul has many virginities. Keep as many as you can.

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Rachel Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly it's okay to be a virgin at any age, for example if you are ace. Or if you're just not ready for that yet. I didn't lose my virginity till I was 21 and I'm glad I waited cuz it gave me a healthy mentality about sex

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Angersly
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's nothing special or pure about being a virgin either. It's a social construct that means nothing. You're the same person before sex after aex, with sex, without sex.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Virginity has no value per se, what is important is that you do it when you're sure/prepared/in love/mature/happy or whatever it's important for you, not because of the pressure of a certain age.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually I don't understand this. It's a common trope to "wait" but frankly I didn't have to wait. I just was incapable of getting into any kind of relationship over a "see you at work" friendship. So anything more than that was not even a question of "waiting", it was a question of "am I invisible?"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I answered that question to myself long ago. The answer was yes and the extra sucky part is I’m bi. So I have more chances and still can’t pull

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Just because you f****d up does NOT mean you’re a f**kup

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) In the adult world, getting into fights doesn’t make you look cool, it just makes you look stupid.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And always remember lol, no matter how much of a badass you think you are, there is always someone that is either more of a badass than you, or some One that might not be a badass but uses its head and it Will knock you the f**k out.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) To the ones who ride the public bus in my city, specifically: nobody else wants to hear whatever TikTok you’re watching. Buy some headphones.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) It's not your duty to judge others. Just take care of your own s**t.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You won't 'feel' different when you're older, or have kids. You'll just be you, it's weird.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes!! I'm 51, but still feel like tgat awkward teenager, it's just that now, SOMEHOW, I've managed to hold down a respectable job since i graduated, and have a house and mortgage and husband and kids. I don't know how that happened! I'm still that nerdy kid! It's just, my knees hurt now.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) as much as you want to be unique, outspoken and be able to be you 100%, its just not that realistic.

as a queer poc millennial it took me a long time to learn that you gotta learn to pick your battles, read the room, and know that not every space is a space thats made for you.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Putting every aspect of yourself online is unsafe. Nobody needs to know your list of triggers or your address or your blood type

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing in my social media is relevant, my adress is wrong, my phone Number os wrong, i don't have any pictures of me or my family, my académic level is wrong and só is my job, you want to " know " who i am, meet me or PM me, my life is mine Alone and i only Share what i think its relevant in a certain context.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) The older you get the faster it goes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That sure is true, my dearest son got 30 last week and t feels like only a short time ;)

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) One day you too will be old and uncool.

And it'll happen faster than you think.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Social media will give you too much of a superiority complex and hanging around people who enable you will f**k you up later in life.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Just because it's new to you doesn't mean it's new.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Not everybody can be an internet sensation, somebody has to drive the dump truck

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And driving a dump truck is steady work and steady pay. Trying to be an “influencer” is a huge risk that could turn out to be a total waste of time and money—-YOUR time and money.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) It is perfectly fine to not know something. It’s OKAY to not know! Stop shaming and bullying people because you learned about something before they did. Social media is not the real world and acting like it is will only make people not want to be around you.

EDIT: I am not talking about ignorance. I’m talking about laughing when people ask a question in class, the “How do you not know that?” crowd, the mocking of people into never asking another question out of fear of ridicule and humiliation.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You guys know how the attractive and wealthy kids at school seem to just get life handed to them on a silver platter?

Get used to it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep! Focus on you rather than putting energy into being angry because someone has it better than you do...because someone ALWAYS will have it better than you.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Jobs aren’t meant to always be fun/your dream, sometimes you have to work a job you hate to stay afloat.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And try them out i was a " puddle jumper " when it come to jobs, i tried a lot of stuff untill i finally found something i loved to do, and get ready to be shocked i love to work " retail "

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Social media is not reality and your entire life should not revolve around it.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) School has a system in place to keep you from falling behind, life doesn’t

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You need to learn the difference between normal teenage neuroses and mental illness.

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You're not "mature for your age." Anyone who says that to justify wanting to be with you is a creep.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) As you get older you just keep realizing how dumb you were last year.

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10 years from now, no one will care about how many viewers you had on tiktok

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Today's eyebrows are yesterday's clown makeup and tomorrow's regret fodder

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, hands up every woman that never dyed, plucked, permed or whatevered her brows? *up*

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Stop self-diagnosing yourselves with mental illnesses

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, ok, but what about the kids who are literally barely hanging in there and no one is listening when they need help because they're being "dramatic" and "over-reacting"?

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You didn’t invent that style

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) We adults are mostly just winging it, hopefully learning from the TONS of mistakes we make, but still winging it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When the nurses handed me my first child (as we left the hospital), I said "Are you serious?""

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Someone somewhere cares about you deeply and loves to see you to be happy

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which is important to remember considering that 99% of the world population couldn't give a c**p about you, or even know you exist. And that is not a bad thing.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Condoms are for stds too even tho there are other ways to avoid pregnancy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Australia is having a Syphillis outbreak in under 25 s at the moment who don’t seem to know what they are for

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In 15 years you’re going to think the kids have gone too far and they’re going to think you’re old-fashioned.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Everything you do as a teenager will be cringe to your children

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You're closer to being the "older" person in any given setting than you think. And by "old" I mean like 30. Got nieces and nephews just starting kindergarten? Haha. Blink and they're starting college.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) That heartache you're going through? It consumes everything now but it will be nothing but a footnote in the future. You'll rarely think about it later - & when you do, it won't hurt you.

It's hard to hear that your pain isn't the worst in the world when you're feeling it. But it does help to know that it won't mean as much as it does in this moment.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At 54, I've had more than "my share of GF" but, unlike some, I've only had 2 heartbrakes. I remember them as if they were yesterday. Heartaches of other kinds, maybe you can mediate them to a soft roar but they're there.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Things will likely take significantly longer to achieve than you think

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Cut back on the sugary s**t now. Take care of your teeth now. Start working out now. You don’t have to be a bodybuilder and look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, just be active.

Now is the time to get out and do a bunch of crazy s**t but at the same time remember that whatever you do now you pay for 20 years later somehow someway. And this can be taken in a good way or a bad way. Don’t want to take care of your teeth now? Have fun dropping $30,000 on your teeth like I had to.

Not exercising or eating right? Have fun with that quadruple bypass that my father just had. My girlfriend’s parents are older than my parents but because they do those things they haven’t had nearly as much hospital visits as my parents have. By comparison my parents are falling apart and they’re only in the 50s. My girlfriend’s parents are in their 70s and objectively are healthier. The big difference? Early in the morning, every morning those two are downstairs working out hitting the weights and machines for a solid hour or two.

Do you want to speed and act a damn fool on the road? Have fun when you have to pay for your own insurance and nobody wants to ensure you to drive a f*****g Honda Civic for no less than $350, like me.

Even my f*****g car, it was my dream car and it still is the car I would be driving today had just taken care of the goddamn thing. But no it started leaking oil and I didn’t keep up with it or take it in and now I have to drive a goddamn Civic when I used to drive a Lexus.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most often, being naturally proactive is a healthy approach to life. I have, however, encountered a number of people who have so "prevention'd" themselves out of their life experience that makes me sad. Be aware, cautious but... always curious...

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Not everyone needs to go to college. High school is probably the easiest thing you'll do.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Follow your particular talents instead of letting someone else dictate what you should do for a living. Were you always the kid who could take broken things apart, fix them, and put them back together? There are countless types of jobs where people do just that. Were you the kid who was always building stuff? There are jobs for that too. Same goes for every talent and ability a person could have. Just take a moment to think about it, and figure out what you’re really good at, then research the variety of jobs requiring it. If you’re a total whiz at math and want to have a career where all you do is math, but your parents want you to be a doctor, sit them down and outline just how important and respectable, as well as lucrative, your chosen career is. Could change their minds, and stop the pressure they’ve been putting on you to go to med school.

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Your metabolism won't last forever. Practice and develop healthy exercise and diet habits now before it gets harder and with more consequences later.

I'm just about to turn 30 in a couple weeks. I am 100 lbs heavier than I was in high school (to be fair I was super tall and skinny to the point of slightly underweight), and that's after losing 25 lbs since the start of July. I have high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol. I am a father of a 2 year old that doesn't want to die in the 40-60 range. I also want to live as a good example to her.

Another 35 lbs and I'll reevaluate what my body type is like and reset my goals from there. That would be 240 lbs, which I was about 4 years ago...but it would also be a more muscular/trimmed 240. I'll determine where in the 210-240 range I want to end up and what my body and lifestyle will be like.

Running is still hard, but using the elliptical is easier on the knees than it was 25 lbs ago. I want to eventually be able to do the Broad Street Run (10 miles through Philadelphia) even though I hate running. If my knees don't like it, I'll do something else as an equivalent.

As an added bonus, my sex drive I think is improving but nowhere near what it was when I was in the 220-250 range. I don't think it's 100% related, but maybe it's more than 50%.

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