If you could be 16 again.
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I'm hesitant to answer this question because after high school I became friends with some amazing people who helped me change into a much better person and were there when I needed them the most. I couldn't ask for better friends, and if I decide to go back to when I was 16, I'll have to find some way to become friends with them again after high school. This would be difficult because I became friends with two of them due partly to my idiotic faux-depression when I was 17-18, and one of them introduced me to a friend of her's. I practically owe my life to these three people, after everything they've done. Therefore, if I go back to when I was 16, I stand to lose A LOT.
That being said, if I do go back to when I was 16, I'd actually do my work in high school and get NCEA Level 3 (I currently have NCEA Levels 1 and 2). I'd also stop acting like such a weird, dodgy person, and this time around I'd see right through those girls' attempts to trick me into thinking one of them wanted me to ask her out. After high school, I'd have to find a way to become friends once again with K + C + H.
Ah, I just thought of another drawback to going back to 16 - when I was a teenager, I was really controlled by my dad. I had very little freedom to do whatever I wanted to do for fun. I wasn't interested in drinking or going to parties or smoking or doing drugs or even having sex, but up until I was 19, I wasn't allowed to stay up past 10:30pm and wasn't even allowed to have my computer on for any reason whatsoever (not even for playing music) unless I asked him first. And even then, he'd usually say no. Hell, he even controlled what music I listened to. All the little things I couldn't do, all the ridiculously insignificant reasons for which I was always punished... and all the rage that built up inside me because of his extremely heavy-handed methods of punishment...
Perhaps it's not worth going back in time, then.
That being said, if I do go back to when I was 16, I'd actually do my work in high school and get NCEA Level 3 (I currently have NCEA Levels 1 and 2). I'd also stop acting like such a weird, dodgy person, and this time around I'd see right through those girls' attempts to trick me into thinking one of them wanted me to ask her out. After high school, I'd have to find a way to become friends once again with K + C + H.
Ah, I just thought of another drawback to going back to 16 - when I was a teenager, I was really controlled by my dad. I had very little freedom to do whatever I wanted to do for fun. I wasn't interested in drinking or going to parties or smoking or doing drugs or even having sex, but up until I was 19, I wasn't allowed to stay up past 10:30pm and wasn't even allowed to have my computer on for any reason whatsoever (not even for playing music) unless I asked him first. And even then, he'd usually say no. Hell, he even controlled what music I listened to. All the little things I couldn't do, all the ridiculously insignificant reasons for which I was always punished... and all the rage that built up inside me because of his extremely heavy-handed methods of punishment...
Perhaps it's not worth going back in time, then.
Oh god man, I had almost the same response.TriGGeR_HaPPy said:
Ignore the girl who always wanted to go running with you, you're not going anywhere with her. Instead, run with the Rugby girls. Oh god I wish I had done that. Would make certain things easier right now.
No thanks,
if i was to go back id do the same things again, there were no other viable choices in my mind. about anything of importance.
besides even if i did want to change something i wouldnt, to explain this in a video game analogy its like reloading a save after making a choice in a rpg that goes wrong(im not using vn here as most people wont understand what im meaning, but it would fit better), it just makes the entire story feel hollow as it wasn't your choice, even if it does provide a better ending.
now if i was asked this at the end of my life i probably would agree as ive already seen where my path would lead.
if i was to go back id do the same things again, there were no other viable choices in my mind. about anything of importance.
besides even if i did want to change something i wouldnt, to explain this in a video game analogy its like reloading a save after making a choice in a rpg that goes wrong(im not using vn here as most people wont understand what im meaning, but it would fit better), it just makes the entire story feel hollow as it wasn't your choice, even if it does provide a better ending.
now if i was asked this at the end of my life i probably would agree as ive already seen where my path would lead.
oops, I guess the as well part would be something I put in for the hell of it. The whole of last year was overall an alright year, but things could have definitely turned out A LOT better for me, too bad I didn't take those chances when they offered to me...Celtic_Kerr said:
Not get that shoulder injury so I can then make provincials for all my sports.
Also, would I still have all the knowledge I possess now?
If so, finish school in a year so I can dick around for a year before varsity, then finish that in record time too.
Life would be so easy...
Also, would I still have all the knowledge I possess now?
If so, finish school in a year so I can dick around for a year before varsity, then finish that in record time too.
Life would be so easy...
My life was kind of in shambles around the age of 16 as my family members were dying off right and left and we were moving and changing schools. But, as I still feel sixteen, I'd probably do it all over again. I miss highschool sometimes. I'd probably try to get higher grades but I did that anyway, and you can only try so much. I can't say I know what I'd do differently, other then maybe trying to get a job and buying stock in google. (It was like 2001 when I was sixteen.) Other then something like that, I'd probably live my life exactly as I had, except I'd like to have asked out a girl at one of my schools. Any girl. I should never have gone through two highschools without asking out a single person.
I would learn to study better so I wouldn't be in a predicament of not knowing how to very well. Other than that, no real changes.
Not sure...there's definitely some things I'd do differently. But then again, I was sixteen in 2007. I hated 2007.