If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

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14/02/2024 at 14:45

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Hello everyone,

How are you doing today?

As we get older we have a lifetime of experiences that have made us wiser.

If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

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14/02/2024 at 20:52

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Oh my goodness - looks like I’m the first to leave a comment; I think this is the first time I’ve experienced this but there’s always going to be a first time for everything?I think I’d tell the pre-teen & teenager I was many, many years ago is:Don’t ever think that the life you have & think you’ll have in the future will ever change because change(s) are inevitable! Anything & everything is possible and you may discover that whatever these innumerable changes bring to your life, keep an open mind. More than likely, you’ll have both good & bad times BUT you’ll get through every one of these! Please choose to use these opportunities to keep growing, as the unique person you are, to hopefully keep becoming a better version of yourself.

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If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be? https://www.carenity.co.uk/forum/other-discussions/good-to-know/if-you-could-give-your-younger-self-one-piece-5264 2024-02-14 20:52:43

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15/02/2024 at 16:19

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Society is changing so much and quite different from my own experience that I could not offer advice as it has changed so much!

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17/02/2024 at 17:32

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I handled payment disputes for the largest mortgage company in Texas and my most frequent advice, for defaulted mortgagors, was: "You work as much as you can, as often as you can, for as long as you can. It is much easier explaining to the family why they are doing without you, instead of doing without everything else."

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27/03/2024 at 10:37

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Do not start smoking!!

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28/03/2024 at 11:15

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@nuskap - In today's world of reductionism, it has everything to do with every subject.

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28/03/2024 at 11:30

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@LifeDelineator ???????

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28/03/2024 at 12:33

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@nuskap - Which do you not understand, positive reductionism or negative reductionism?

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22/04/2024 at 12:40

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@LifeDelineator I reiterate 'That has nothing to do with the subject.'

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14/07/2024 at 17:57

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Trust your intints

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17/11/2024 at 15:20

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Not to be in denial about my bipolar, take my medication and live a less erratic life but if honest sometimes miss the manic me.

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Start saving for retirement early, AND be kinder to your body! (All those years of athletics were hard on my joints/back.)

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17/11/2024 at 17:02

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I would tell myself to take up the offer of counselling as soon as you feel able to it's the longer you leave it the more difficult it becomes to find the right type of counselling via the NHS.

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17/11/2024 at 17:03

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I would tell my younger self I should have never let people get the better of me should have paid more attention to my mum and listened more and I shouldn't have never tried to be like others and never started smoking maybe my life would have been different but now I have to live the life I can and not look back have to live my life to the full of what yrs I have left

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05/01/2025 at 15:50

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Never smoke.

If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

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