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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:53:03 PM EDT

Title states it.

Posted: 1/22/2021 11:53:37 PM EDT

[#1]

Fuck yeah, I rule.

Posted: 1/22/2021 11:55:23 PM EDT

[#2]

Yup.

Posted: 1/23/2021 EDT

[#3]

Hell yeah. I have kept all of the promises that I made to myself.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:01:33 AM EDT

[#4]

More than I am now of my younger self.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:01:43 AM EDT

[#5]

Definitely. I eventually achieved all the things I knew I could, if I could just figure out how.

So I figured out how.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:01:51 AM EDT

[#6]

Probably not.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:03:17 AM EDT

[#7]

Yes.

May not have gotten my dream job, but I got everything else.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:04:01 AM EDT

[#8]

Fuck no!

Young ME expected an Immortal, punk rock, pirate.

I’ve only managed part of that.

Young me would have been disappointed with the financial stability and family.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:04:23 AM EDT

[#9]

nope, though I would probably not be surprised

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:04:29 AM EDT

[#10]

I'm sure I made it further than most people expected of me.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:05:11 AM EDT

[#11]

Yes.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:07:32 AM EDT

[#12]

Nope. Young me couldn't stand angry old cynics.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:08:25 AM EDT

[#13]

Yes. All I expected was to surf and live in a shack on the beach.

Money ain't everything but I'd like to see you live without it.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:08:29 AM EDT

[#14]

Yes. My life is working out exactly as i had planned it. I'm right where i wanted to be and happy. My 10, 15, 20, 25 year old self would be proud and happy as fuck to see 37 year old me.

I wish this for every man and hope you all get it.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:09:47 AM EDT

[#15]

Good parent, stable home, married.

Job is a lot closer to my grade school plan than my college-aged plan.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:10:28 AM EDT

[#16]

I absolutely didn’t expect to live through my late 20’s.

So I’ve got that going for me.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:10:35 AM EDT

[#17]

Mostly, though it took a lot longer to achieve what I wanted than I thought when I was younger.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:12:38 AM EDT

[#18]

Are you shittin me? Younger me would fucking worship me

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:16:34 AM EDT

[#19]

My younger self was never worried. I make this shit look easy .

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:25:13 AM EDT

[#20]

Sure would.

I think early in life I really wanted to be around people of wisdom. Now I try to be that voice of reason for those who look up to me.

I hope I succeed in that venture.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:25:22 AM EDT

[#21]

I have done much that I never suspected that I would do when I was 20.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:26:33 AM EDT

[#22]

Who wouldn’t want to win a Nobel and marry a supermodel?

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:27:45 AM EDT

[#23]

Never thought that I would live through 30 years on the Job, much less 40.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:28:39 AM EDT

[#24]

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You're half way there Trump. Or Obola.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:30:04 AM EDT

[#25]

I’m not sure. I’m divorced. But very financially stable and own my own home, truck and am prospering. I think I’d be disappointed that I didn’t see the signs she was cheating before we were married and call it off.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:30:37 AM EDT

[#26]

Yes. Hindsight is seeing into the future though.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:31:20 AM EDT

[#27]

How much younger? Did I achieve what I wanted to do when I was in high school? Not exactly but kind of. Did I accomplish what I wanted to do 30 years ago? Yeah.

Got two kids through college with no college debt, both have jobs they like, my house is paid for, my motor home is paid for, my truck is paid for, my horse trailer is paid for in silver the horses that go in it. I retired at 62. The fireplace did I go to the Naval Academy and do 20 plus years in the navy? No. I did 40 years in the Merchant Marine. Things didn't work out exactly the way I wanted but they worked out.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:35:30 AM EDT

[#28]

Younger me would be very, very confused.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:39:50 AM EDT

[#29]

My younger self also didn't aspire to anything in life, so it's not like I failed to live up to expectations. I lost some weight, though.

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:41:26 AM EDT

[#30]

I married my crush that i was too shy to talk to when i was younger.
I have lots of guns
Have a good job.

Yes younger self would be proud

Posted: 1/23/2021 12:57:25 AM EDT

[#31]

No, my younger self was a self absorbed pompous ass who thought he ruled the world because he was an athlete and smarter than anyone else. I would have judged the now me and sounded like half of GD with fatties and shallowness.

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:30:22 AM EDT

[#32]

He'd be proud of my paycheck and ability to buy really whatever strikes my fancy (not loaded, just have a good paying job that funds my modest costing hobbies). He'd be horrified that what he's experiencing now is the best social life he's ever going to have.

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:33:39 AM EDT

[#33]

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Male, female, or shemale supermodel?

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:35:51 AM EDT

[#34]

I would bitch slap my younger self for not getting a federal government job, I'd have been retired already.

My younger self would bitch slap me for the mistakes I've made to get to this point.

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:37:07 AM EDT

[#35]

Absolutely fucking not

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:38:44 AM EDT

[#36]

Should have had kids years ago so I can retire that much sooner.

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:39:51 AM EDT

[#37]

No. I'm successful but I walked on some opportunities in my younger life that would make 99 percent of people envious as hell.

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:47:05 AM EDT

[#38]

I think my younger me would hate me now. Thing is though, I like my current self better than my younger self.

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:50:31 AM EDT

[#39]

Young me would think old me must be this size because he's been traveling across time lines eating all the young me's and would hit old me with nunchucks. Old
me would go "ouch" shoot young me and disappear while young me fell over dead

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:51:32 AM EDT

[#40]

Actually young me would hug old me and say "Dad I love you!"

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:52:28 AM EDT

[#41]

I think the sex change would have thrown me.

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:52:43 AM EDT

[#42]

At this point in time, no. Probably not

Posted: 1/23/2021 1:53:58 AM EDT

[#43]

My younger self would probably be very impressed at what I have accomplished.

But, he would also be absolutely disgusted at how fat and weak I have gotten.