What would you... - by Medlar
Vasquez on 12/8/2018 at 06:59
Quit your day job sooner, before it has drained you so badly it takes a year to recover.
Eat less now that you can't exercise as much as before!
Stop worrying so much, you can't save everyone, especially those who don't want your help. Trying to help becomes a habit that will eventually hurt you. So does worrying in general.
Otherwise you're on the right track: keep writing, don't have kids, be kind to others and enjoy life every chance you get (there'll be a time it will be very difficult so you'll need the memories).
icemann on 13/8/2018 at 06:06
The hell that is high school for you, will be over soon. Life is going to get HEAPS better, whilst also putting you through further nightmares which you will overcome and be a stronger, better version of yourself afterward + FAR more positive. Live life to the fullest and never be too scared to try anything at least once. You'll be going off to uni in about 10 years, which will be a massive life changing experience for you. You'll be a much more confident person by the time your done with that. Don't go back to call center work afterward. Get into teaching. You'll love it, the money is great and it will inspire you to develop your own indie games since you'll already be in that environment of teaching that to students. Teaching will greatly improve your confidence levels even more than university did. You can do anything you put yourself 100% into. Near the end of uni you'll meet your future wife. Good things ahead.
Tocky on 16/8/2018 at 15:36
Yeah, I don't know what I could say. You are going to screw up in most every way imaginable and have fun doing it? Want to switch places?
I would be deathly afraid of the butterfly effect. Buuuuuuut here are the powerball numbers for this date. Hide these three sealed containers at these marked locations at your parents house because I know you will lose them. Do it NOW.
Mr.Duck on 16/8/2018 at 23:57
Devour everything.
Minion21g on 17/8/2018 at 14:45
I mean, shit happens right? Don't beat yourself up over every little thing. Anxiety is fucking enough terrible.
You should come out. You know what I'm talking about. Those fears aren't valid. Just do it. But also, be prepared to make life long friends as a result, they'll mean the world to you. Your family won't mean shit.
Also, get out of programming, it sucks. Do something more enjoyable.
Gray on 18/8/2018 at 01:08
For me, I can not reply to this thread without this one question:
A) should I treat this as events actually happened, or
B) should I treat this as if things would have progressed normally for a man of my age.
Let's start with the mutuals.
The basics are these.
Don't care about what other people may think about you. The truth is that most people don't think about you, they're too busy thinking about themselves, either because they're insecure and worry about what other people think about them, or because they're complete dicks and think they're awesome, and don't think about you anyway.
Shyness, social awkwardness, can be overcome. Alcohol can help, but to not rely upon it, find the strength within yourself first. Although, clearly, alcohol does help temporarily.
Get more exercise. Don't care about why you're supposed to do it, just do it because it will make you feel better. Physically and mentally. Start now. NOW NOW NOW!
If A)
Ignore university, jobs, careers, whatever. You're gonna die prematurely anyway from long term illness. Focus on what you like and enjoy. Do that.
If B)
Computer science may seem like the way of the future, but it really is not. Study more about those subjects you find so mindnumbingly boring, like history, religion, languages, culture. All of that will be very useful in the future when you'll have to deal with people who are not like you. All the computery stuff can be picked up later, but expanding your mind and opening it up to things unknown can not. You don't want to be an ambassador for your country? Tough. You will become one as soon as you leave your country, which you will, and you'll need all of these skills.
mxleader on 18/8/2018 at 05:02
Go AWOL and move to Canada.
Renzatic on 18/8/2018 at 05:10
...do for a Klondike bar?
I would slay you all! :mad:
Gray on 24/8/2018 at 23:26
Quote Posted by Daxim
Find a way to skip military.
I did. At the time, when I was 18, we had conscription in my country. I did not want to do military service. I knew I wasn't strong enough. I decided to fake something. As it turned out, my eyesight was so poor (-10!) I did not have to fake anything, and I was much relieved. Two, three years later, I was a much stronger person, and would have loved the experience of going through military training, just for all the stuff I could have learned. At this point, I was soaking up all the possible knowledge I could absorb, mentally and physically, and I would have loved the challenge. The going to war bit, not so much, but that was a moot point anyway, because at this point in time conscription was abolished. I had a very narrow escape, in more ways than one. One of the guys in my class did what I did not, and died in the peace keeping force in Bosnia. So yeah, I regret not getting the education, but not so much regret the dying in a foreign country being shot in the head by someone you were sent to help.
