Twitter Users Share 3 Words They’d Say To Their 18 Y.O. Selves And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones
It would probably be fair enough to assume that every single one of us sometimes dreams about traveling a few years (or a few decades) back in time. Some of us would like to go back and change a few things here and there, some would like to experience the best moments of their lives once again, and some, well, some people would simply love to go back to when life felt easier. The list goes on and on. Though despite the reasons behind it, the idea of time travel and being able to change your past itself is an interesting and tempting concept. But here's a thing—what if you could go back in time and meet a younger version of yourself? What would you like to do then?
Let's take a moment to explore this kind of scenario. Recently, Twitter user A_l_a_n__G shared a post asking others what are the 3 words they would tell their 18-year-old self through time travel.

Without further ado, Bored Panda invites you to look through some of the best responses.
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We always regret not loving our parents more, unless they were psychotic monsters!
only because you are born into that grace - learn to defend it and do not destroy it inviting unconsciousness - our social system is born on intelligence and insight and not a ressource for everybody
Load More Replies...it's the political system that more than welcomes him as a candidate, as well as the people who vote for him, that are the issue. not the individual himself. he's just one person.
Load More Replies...Heck, Germany is where a lot of people should go! but i want to go there for the Autobahn, and cheap E36 M3's.
Well, can't you still go back there...assuming that you haven't already!
I agree with this statement. You can replace "Germany" with Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands and a few others. Look up "Happiest Countries in the World."
All these countries are from the same tribes - germanic. The now-adays-countries are the result of politics
Load More Replies...Many of the most popular responses included people advising their younger selves to buy Amazon, Apple, or Microsoft stocks. "I wanted to buy $4000 of Amazon stock very early on. Husband said I was nuts and badgered me, so I didn't. Instead, we put it with the money we had saved for the down payment on a bigger house. Still kicking myself. I knew I was smarter than him," someone commented. "Imagine your future self says 'invest in Apple.' But you don’t know that is. So you pour money into orchards and become the biggest apple (small “a”) magnate in the world," another user added.
My Mum smoked for 45 years. She’d quit for 6 years when she was Dx with stage 4 small cell lung cancer. Her poor little body took as much chemo as it could, and 8 months later she died from the cancer and pneumonia brought on by the chemo. 💔💔💔💔💔
Fortunately I DID listen to myself, and it's one of my best accomplishments!
Instead of saying "Stop Smoking Now" I'd say, "Learn TM now." Transcendental Meditation wakes up the body so it rejects what is harmful to it. Even with an 18-year history of smoking, TM made quitting relatively easy for me. It is now almost 50 years later and even though three of my family members died of lung cancer from smoking, I am alive with healthy lungs, as well as having a huge lot more of benefits from it. Go to TM.org to see the research.
Jane Austen wrote a book about this. Persuasion. Fortunately, her book had a happy ending.
That is awesome. Congratulations on your hard work. I hope you are fully healed.
Welp, I think after reading this, I won't be racing around in my Datsun 510.
Well done . I am almost off them after post surgery with them now to, almost, but not looking back. Opioids are so deceptive.
I live in constant pain because I’m scared of getting addicted to prescription drugs 😣
Also, apparently, many people would advise themselves to marry or not to marry a certain person. For instance, one user shared that their 3 words would be "marry that girl." Someone commented on this tweet by saying this: "Can you find her? Is she legally available? At 77, my uncle found his high school sweetheart on FB. Both sides had spouses dead over 5 years. They are having the BEST time! SO happy! Live 1000 miles apart, so airplane and visit. Look her up!!!"
I'm late already ? Or in 5 years I will still will wish to buy it now?
Load More Replies...This happened to me years back when I wanted to invest money in Sun Microsystems. I got talked out of it. Sun got big then was bought out by Oracle.
I never realised I was so small minded...I always thought I'd just tell myself to put the rent on RedRum.
Honestly, to save America, we need Joe Biden. I’m not trying to be rude or hurt anyone but I’m just saying what I think. Vote! 🇺🇸
Vote Trump and have a mature conversation about why I voted that way as an African American and still support people that disagree with me because we can coexist if we are for America and not loyal to a political party.
You seriously needed time travel fro that? Everybody with a brain knows that!
Be respectful! Everyone makes mistakes, at least they realized and hopefully they will be making the right choice now :)
Load More Replies...You have a second chance- vote BIDEN/HARRIS!! TWO WEEKS from today 10/22/20!
One user shared that they'd rather say nothing and give their younger self a hug instead. "I’d give her a big hug because she wasn’t getting many at home and she’d been through a lot of crap in those short 18 years," the user wrote. "Never too late to be kind to yourself. I hope there are many warm, safe hugs in your life now," another user replied.
Never wanted kids, never had kids, never regretted it. It's not for everyone. And your life can be just as full without them.
I think its completely possible to love your children with all your heart but still wish you didn't have them.
Load More Replies...Remember that is this comment is not about you and you proclaiming your love of parenthood. So don't judge her. She probably agrees that she is not the best mom in the world but she found out too late in life. I think her honestly, to herself and in this comment, is brave.
How is this even a conversation? If she had kids at all, then this is a messed up thing to say. Even if she's acknowledging her weakness, she's doing this by saying that her children, human beings who exist in this world, should have never been born. There's nothing brave or commendable in that, it's messed up and shamefully self-centered. ...none of which is surprising when you look at her "I live on a diet of lemons and unripe prunes" face.
Load More Replies...i took my own advise on that one and didn't have kids. still good with that choice.
One of the "advances" I've been glad to see: it's no longer socially negative for a young girl - or a young couple - to decide they don't want to have children. When I was young, to make such a statement would have brought your world down on you: parents, grandparents, even your doctor.
I agree... except, as an unmarried woman in my late 30s, I am amazed at how many people talk about me having kids.
Load More Replies...None of us knows why she says this. It may have turned out that she carries a gene which makes her children die after a short and painful childhood. Maybe her children joined a gang and were killed or became murderers. Why take for granted that she is either a bad mom or a nasty person? We all have this idea of The Perfect Happy Family in our heads - and you know what, life doesn't come giftwrapped and perfect to a lot of people around us.
How does everyone know she has children? All she said is "don't have children". Maybe she witnessed someone else's bad experience.
I feel that it is implied. Why would you go back in time to tell yourself that if you already don't have kids?
Load More Replies...Good advice. I thought putting others first... being taken advantage of... one day someone would do the same for me. Obviously I’m no where near perfect and made plenty of mistakes... but it turns out i should have lived my life the way i wanted to and not let ANYONE get in my way, because no one else gives a s**t. There’s a lot more to unpack on that general statement... but she’s right about ‘like yourself first’ in soo many ways.
I found out early on that I had to LOVE myself first, and from that deep well, could love others.....
The original post by A_l_a_n__G has since gone viral and it currently has over 20k likes, almost 18k quote tweets, and over 2.5k retweets. What would your response be after hearing this question? Let us know down in the comments!
No it isn't. Unwanted children are sad. STDs are sad. Being sensible about sexual health and procreation is GOOD.
Load More Replies...Aww, you can tell she's probably an artist who wishes she had more of a headstart back then. Also, art can help your mental health! (When you're not stressing over it lol)
I would say the same thing. And if 4 words were allowed i would ad a"now"
Really?What about transportation?Pay?Taxes?
Load More Replies...I know I could have used this advice in my 20's. I know it now, 30 years later.
...exander. you have invented a new kind of stupid. a damage you can never undo kind of stupid...
Load More Replies...Panic never helps anything or anybody (except sometimes in serious life and death situations, like the instinct to run out of a burning building)
Hard to control when you're having panic attacks. SEE a few comments up.
Load More Replies...I remember chatting with my brother who was into tech. He was saying that Apple stock was very, very cheap. He said they were about to introduce a new product that would store and play digital music. The iPod. He said if it took off, which it might, it would go big. If it failed, it would probably be the end of Apple. He said if I had a grand to invest, it would be a good gamble. Neither of us had a grand we thought we could risk at the time...
I have apple stock, but wish I had invested in Amazon when it was 170, coulda woulda shoulda
Apple are cheap bastards that don;t even give you a charger with a $ 1.600 phone. And a new PS or Xbox is cheaper that a set of 4 wheels for your Mac Pro. And it's a $ 1.000 for a metal monitor standard...
There is probably something right now in the exact same position as apple was in 1999, look for it.
I like having affairs, with time travelers as we can repeat the fun times.
Ah reaching that moment in life where you figured out the not great is part of the very great.
Also a great way of recreation for many other, responsible users.
Load More Replies...I'm sorry but this is my favorite. Because of course, if someone had just told 18 year old Alexandra not to eat bats, this whole covid thing never would have happened. You shouldn't eat bats Alexandra. Bats: Besties not Breakfast.
She's making a joke. One theory of the origin of COVID is that someone got it from eating bat soup.
Load More Replies...Not at all. Read the title of the post. Is she the one eating bats?
Load More Replies...Why the hate? (Well into the negatives at the time I'm writing this.) Maybe this is what she did, and looking back it was the best part of her life. Or maybe she didn't and has lived with regret. Either way, why do so many downvote anything different from the way they think?
There seems to be a "trend" that having children is bad for you and totally out.
Load More Replies...Even though he wasn't a nice person in real life (he beat up women, his own admission), he didn't deserve to be murdered.
Ámen. Not because of expensive but because of the mental health you put into it.
Never vote straight party, and especially do not suggest a lifetime of straight party. If you convince yourself that either party is all good or all bad, one has all the answers and the other is just stupid, you are part of what's wrong in the world.
I never voted straight party-line neither I ever registered as one or other party. However that all changed after tDump became president and I show how turtle mitch pulled stunts plus how the republican party covered for tDump. I will never vote republican ever again at any level of government. I wish I would have taken a Vietnam war veteran's advice more at heart. All he told me before my first vote was "If you are a working-class never ever vote for a republican." I didn't understand that at the time but now I do.
Load More Replies...Ranked voting would be amazing. People (in the US)vote for someone because they fear another candidate not because they think they are voting for the best person.
Load More Replies...Since you're getting technical-seems as if you need to "Learn Math". Post says THREE words, not two.
Load More Replies...Where in the world can you study without students when you're from a third world country?
Wow, even more downvotes than ‘marry, have babies’ so... i guess some one was just offended by someone saying “don’t have children” but in actuality it seems people agree with her.
Personally, I think it the use of the word 'many' that prompted downvotes.
Load More Replies...What? Without loving and being yourself you'll get nowhere in life ,you will be miserable. Just because you don't love yourself or trust yourself doesn't mean you get to put that negative energy on other people.
Load More Replies...For those whining: syntactically, "don´t" is one word. "The" is a word that has no meaning unless used with a noun. So technically, it is three words.
And that changes the rapid monetary increase...how? Money is money.
Load More Replies...yep thats me and my dad right now i gave you up vote i mean ammo is pretty good thing to have laying around but not around kids and not to kill people
They copied and pasted this exact same response to the republican version as well, genius
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