“If you can go back to the past and re-live your life, at what age do you want to do it?”
“If you can give three pieces of advice to your 25-year-old self, what would they be?”
Have you been asked the above questions or something to that effect? I have, and I used to entertain such questions. It’s so romantic.
Who didn’t make mistakes when they were young? And who doesn’t want to go back to correct it so that their current status would be different?
How nice…
But here’s the thing.
Let’s say you’re 45 now, and you travel back in time to be 25 again. Has it ever crossed your mind that you will have a 25-year-old mindset and still make the same mistake your 25-year-old self made?
So, unless you can go back to your 25-year-old self with a 40-year-old maturity, you will re-live all the shit you’ve done. So, why bother, right?
If you’re 25-year-old now, you will mostly think that uncle Melvin is talking nonsense.
No, it’s not that you’re stubborn or thick. It’s just that you’re living and thinking like how most 25-year-olds would live and think. No right, no wrong.
Oh, and about giving three pieces of advice to your 25-year-old self. How many 25-year-olds, do you know, listen to people much older than them? I didn’t.
So, stop romanticising the past, for it will not change your future. If you want to feel good, try reading uncle Melvin’s satirical posts. I heard they’re good.
