Topic: If I could go back in the past I would punch myself! (Read 17256 times)

JD · « **on:** 25 May 2009, 00:44 »

Post stupid things you did or said when you were younger

For example,
When I was younger I said my brother had half a brain. He has autism.

Eris · « **Reply #1 on:** 25 May 2009, 00:57 »

In my teenage years I was part of a group of people who wrote a note to two people who sat with us saying that maybe they should not sit with us any more.

The cried. A lot. So I wrote another note to the two of them apologising, and then sat with them at school for about two years. I try to talk to them now as little as possible.

Woo?

Jace · « **Reply #2 on:** 25 May 2009, 01:02 »

My saddest memory is "the last two weeks of freshman year."
I broke her heart without realizing it. Then mine was broken because of that.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #3 on:** 25 May 2009, 01:07 »

I love you.

squawk · « **Reply #4 on:** 25 May 2009, 01:13 »

I'm sorry I love you.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #5 on:** 25 May 2009, 01:13 »

I don't remember the things I said.

I just remember the hot prickly feeling on my cheeks

The tightness in my chest

The buckling of the knees the lump in the throat the spinning of my head

And I remember the lists I made

And soon they will, too.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #6 on:** 25 May 2009, 03:32 »

I want to punch myself yesterday, this morning even, because really I am just an idiot with all things ever.

Scrambled Egg Machine · « **Reply #7 on:** 25 May 2009, 05:45 »

Everything before the age of 16. Good Lord, was I a fuck-up.

Dazed · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 May 2009, 06:48 »

Being 13 and making a "YOUR MOM" joke to a kid whose mom died of cancer.

Whups.

jhocking · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 May 2009, 07:06 »

I spare myself the embarrassment of reliving the stupid things I said when I was younger by not having any clear memories of anything further back then maybe 4 years ago.

ViolentDove · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 May 2009, 07:21 »

Can I go back in time and give myself a big hug instead? Actually that'd be pretty weird. Possibly less weird than being punched by future me, though.

iamiam · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 May 2009, 08:09 »

Quote from: jhocking on 25 May 2009, 07:06

I spare myself the embarrassment of reliving the stupid things I said when I was younger by not having any clear memories of anything further back then maybe 4 years ago.

yet somehow you still remember everything that happened back in college?

i have no regrets. the only thing i could think of was to maybe tell myself not to date the stupid boys i dated as a teenager. but all teenage boys are dumb so i would not have had any relationships at all in that case. besides all that i am pretty much a perfect human being (:

oh, except that i wasted the fact that i could speak arabic fluently. that was pretty fucking stupid. i would definitely give myself a kick in the rear end for that one.

Avec · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 May 2009, 08:17 »

Making a big deal about breaking up with my first girlfriend. It kept me from meeting new people and most importantly what kept me as a shy kid for the longest time. I can say that I really don't care anymore, but a good punch knee cap would suffice.

nobo · « **Reply #13 on:** 25 May 2009, 09:20 »

I would go back and not date 2 specific girls in high school, and i would actually fight back when 4 teenagers jumped me.

Dazed · « **Reply #14 on:** 25 May 2009, 09:30 »

Also I would go back to 3 AM saturday morning and get this girl's number, uuuuuughh

Ozymandias · « **Reply #15 on:** 25 May 2009, 10:57 »

Man, If I could time travel I would just be constantly boning myself and double-teaming other people.

Ain't got no reasons to be violent at myself.

valley_parade · « **Reply #16 on:** 25 May 2009, 11:03 »

The same old story. That fucking 1973 Fender Competition Mustang I stupidly didn't buy.

bbq · « **Reply #17 on:** 25 May 2009, 11:05 »

For being a recluse for an entire year and a half before moving up schools.

Drill King · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 May 2009, 11:25 »

Violence wouldn't have done anything for old me. But I would go back and hug myself and remind me all the time that there were people who loved me and I was going to get better, and life wouldn't always hurt so much. I would reassure younger me that everything would get better and that she would get better and not be so sick.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #19 on:** 25 May 2009, 12:00 »

I would tell myself not to be such a dick to that girl who chose someone else when I was a senior in high school. I think a slap upside the head would suffice.

Patrick · « **Reply #20 on:** 25 May 2009, 14:09 »

I would punch myself for not trying to hook up with Hot Chicks earlier in life.

What the FUCK was I thinking, holy shit

bbq · « **Reply #21 on:** 25 May 2009, 15:26 »

Probably for turning down girls because I worried what other people would say.

Man that's a silly thing to do.

Lines · « **Reply #22 on:** 25 May 2009, 16:09 »

I have learned from my stupid mistakes, but I would have learned by them better if I had a smack upside the head every time I made one, too. But that could cause brain damage, so maybe not.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 May 2009, 16:25 »

I would probably go back in time and alert my past self that I should ask out the girl that I liked in highschool rather than the girl I knew would go out with me.

On the otherhand my previous experiences have shaped who I am today and so it is important that for me to be where I am now, which is more or less where I don't mind being, then I shouldn't interfere with everything leading up to that point. You should also consider that in certain theories of time travel when you go back in time you can't interact with yourself. Usually because of the time-travel paradoxes that would ensue, but occaisionally because of the theory that the same matter can't occupy the same space at the same time, meaning that if you did infact go back in time and make physical contact with yourself then both past and present (future) you would be destroyed.
It's important, too, to remember that if any of us would have access to time travel when we get older chances are we would have used it and would not be having this conversation simply because we would have already gone back and changed the past and that would have altered the future (our present).

Fuck me but I love time travel.

Cernunnos · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 May 2009, 16:38 »

Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 25 May 2009, 16:25

Fuck me but I love time travel.

Well with time travel, as ozy pointed out, that would be possible for you to do.

Hat · « **Reply #25 on:** 25 May 2009, 17:16 »

I don't really believe in personal growth so there wouldn't be much point to the exercise, but I'd probably just go back in time and have sex with myself anyway, because I'm a narcissist.

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #26 on:** 25 May 2009, 17:19 »

I dunno. If I went back in time and hit a younger me for any reason, younger me would probably resent older me for a long time and I'd (younger me) end up sabotaging my past life so that older me is all fucked up. But anyway, any period from about June to December last year. Or schoolies. That's about the only things I'd really do differently.

Wah-hey whaddayaknow they're both about women.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #27 on:** 25 May 2009, 17:22 »

If I could go back in time and fix myself I'd probably knock the Pringles can out of his hand and tell him to go play outside.

est · « **Reply #28 on:** 25 May 2009, 20:17 »

If I could go back in the past I would give my dad a few choice investment tips maybe about these companies called Microsoft, Apple and Google.

Radical AC · « **Reply #29 on:** 25 May 2009, 20:47 »

If I could do high school over it would be so awesome, because I ~~would be~~ am so awesome. And not emotionally traumatized for the first year, and meek for the second. I mean, you could make the argument it made me what I am today - but it would be even better because I could be who I am today then. I suppose a lot of people ponder this stuff, though. And then I couldn't smoke, (not that I do now, except hookah and that stuff wasn't even around when I was in HS) drink, or drive (probably not at the same time) And I feel kind of obligated to stop things like 9/11 and Disney stars with pop albums.

I can't really think of a lot of specific instances I would change what I say. I'd probably just say more. I don't regret a lot of what I did say. Oh, but I would get a different prom date. Mine was kind of dumb and I didn't have a very good night, especially when I consider how much money I spent on it.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #30 on:** 25 May 2009, 20:48 »

I guess really I would just say to myself that I should be more assertive and that really there is no reason to give a fuck about what people think of me. There wouldn't be a punch but it would e a pretty stern talking to, by golly.

Also I would tell me to start wearing suits more often.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #31 on:** 25 May 2009, 20:55 »

Quote from: Hat on 25 May 2009, 17:16

I don't really believe in personal growth so there wouldn't be much point to the exercise, but I'd probably just go back in time and have sex with myself anyway, because I'm a narcissist.

Temporal masturbation high five!

o/

ViolentDove · « **Reply #32 on:** 25 May 2009, 21:20 »

I'd go back in time and give myself a pink hover board and a pair of rad high tops.

LittleKey · « **Reply #33 on:** 25 May 2009, 23:08 »

i would go back to middle school and tell myself to stop being so socially inept!

Ballard · « **Reply #34 on:** 26 May 2009, 00:18 »

No regrets.

Would bone myself as well.

MrBlu · « **Reply #35 on:** 26 May 2009, 01:12 »

Oh man, I screwed up bad.

The first thing off the top of my head is, I shouldn't have spat my chewing gum in that girl's face.

Secondly, I shouldn't have been a coward when this cute girl found out I liked her.

I wouldn't have tried spending so much time with the "cool kids" in grade school. Hell, that was a waste, I didn't even have much of a sense of self at that point.

... Damn, I screwed up bad...

I remember one time, I was at camp, and a girl liked me, and wanted to go to the banquet with me, she told a friend of mine, who asked me if I liked her. I said "no" because I knew that my best friend wanted to go with her. This happened at breakfast, and when I went outside, the next thing I know, this girl who I thought was extremely cute went bat-@#$% insane and cussed me the hell out in front of everyone.

If I went back in time, I probably wouldn't have changed a thing.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #36 on:** 26 May 2009, 08:52 »

Tell myself that Melissa is not worth it, don't spend a year and a half trying to kill yourself when she's gone.

Also: Fight with myself who gets to be on top.

McTaggart · « **Reply #37 on:** 26 May 2009, 09:14 »

You can just do it twice.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #38 on:** 26 May 2009, 09:30 »

Or several times.

negative creep · « **Reply #39 on:** 26 May 2009, 12:09 »

The only thing I regret (and I mean that) is not dating that one girl back in '06, when she still wanted me, and then suffering for the next 2 years because of it.

Patrick · « **Reply #40 on:** 26 May 2009, 14:11 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 26 May 2009, 08:52

Also: Fight with myself who gets to be on top.

The answer to this is so fucking complex that I don't even want to start explaining it.

McTaggart · « **Reply #41 on:** 26 May 2009, 14:36 »

Man it's simple: I'm on top unless you're cute (or me).

snalin · « **Reply #42 on:** 26 May 2009, 15:03 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 26 May 2009, 08:52

Also: Fight with myself who gets to be on top.

Now I'm picturing you having a loud conversation with yourself about which position you should masturbate in.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #43 on:** 26 May 2009, 16:37 »

Aren't you supposed to?

NeverQuiteGoth · « **Reply #44 on:** 26 May 2009, 17:58 »

Being rude to and turning down all the girls who ever were interested in me when I was young because of my secret crush(that I obsessed over for 3+ years), and then finding out in the middle of high school (Sophomore year to be precise) that she has no feelings for me what-so-ever, never did.
I wish I could go back and smack myself at the start of it. The collapse of that massive obsession destroyed me, made me cripplingly shy and emotionally hollow and even a little suicidal at times.
Truthfully, I've never been the same. And I still can't stand to be in the same buliding as her(which I found out the hard way).

est · « **Reply #45 on:** 27 May 2009, 01:43 »

Ok yeah, I just realised that maybe the best thing I could do for my younger self (other than the aforementioned financial advice) would be to show up one day with an extremely detailed list of awesome bands to check out at certain times and also a list of concerts/dj sets that I should attend or so help me god I will come back in time again and give myself the hiding of a lifetime.

Inlander · « **Reply #46 on:** 27 May 2009, 02:51 »

In that vein, I'd make sure as hell my younger self went to see Robert Forster & Grant McLennan perform together on one of the numerous occasions I/he had the chance. I'd tell myself: "No, there won't be plenty of other opportunities because Grant McLennan is going to die shockingly young. So go see them, you lazy fool!"

MadassAlex · « **Reply #47 on:** 27 May 2009, 08:04 »

Quote from: Dazed on 25 May 2009, 06:48

Being 13 and making a "YOUR MOM" joke to a kid whose mom died of cancer.

Whups.

I can 1-up you here.

Once, when my own mother was struck down by leukemia, I asked a child of nine if his mother loved him. His mother had died of cancer.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #48 on:** 28 May 2009, 09:20 »

Actually, I don't think I would.

I like the fact that I wouldn't really want to change anything.

Coffee_Kaioken · « **Reply #49 on:** 01 Jun 2009, 05:54 »

I would have ordered a smaller size I-can-has-torrents shirt and Pintsize hoodie. Now that I'm losing weight, dear god they're saggy.

But yeah - just about almost everything, from

- letting people talk down to me and convince me there were numerous things wrong with me, and getting too dependent on their approval
- to eating junk food and being 30 lbs overweight
- reading QC, getting addicted (fuck you Jeph for creating an addictive comic), wishing reality could be wittingly joked through and then crash landing back into reality
- to cutting out certain people who I got fed up with because I got paranoid and thought they were manipulating me
- to all the socially inept things I did both offline and online (oh, other online forums before here, those were SHITTY ASS things I did)

Actually, tons of stuff.

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