March 17, 2008
dear clusterflock
What would you tell your younger self?
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- Michael Smith: WRONG, I’m anime FREAK.
- Rick Neece: I hear you. I kind of like the Jaguar-ish look of the new ones.
- Marco: I’ll admit in the privacy of this forum to liking some of the Tauri, but that particular model year was...
- Rick Neece: Thanks, Josh.
- k: Somebody pulled her the fuck out of that house, didn’t they? She’s going to end up in a hospital at...
- picturerock: I drive a Dodge Ram, and the bumper sticker on the back says, “Eatin’ Teslas, Shittin’...
- Joel Bernstein: The father responds
- Carole Corlew: Kathy, it’s in the blood! I have old windows in the garage that I use for that, too. And I...
- Kathy: Carole, you are so so like my father. He built his own mini greenhouse to start his seedlings using the frame...
- Michael Smith: Also, did you guys all know racquetball is fun? Even if you don’t know what you’re doing.
- Michael Smith: Cats don’t count.
- Carole Corlew: I also think about a principal’s message to parents here asking for donations of any used...
- Carole Corlew: Thank you! You know me, I have an agenda. I’m a garden-pusher. Erica, kale will grow very nicely...
- Rick Neece: Oh, and for the conflagation of CRV and Taurus? Well-played, I think.
- Rick Neece: We now have a hillbilly Town Car, eight years old. And a Saab, twelve years old. I’ll take the Saab...
Do that and not this.
me too. the question being which that and which this?
You can’t fight everything and expect to defeat the things that have hurt you. Risk love, and love will find you.
A couple of things:
“Shut up and listen.”
and
“Don’t be so fucking stupid all the time.”
“Harden the fuck up”
“Get that thing looked at.”
( my runner-up would be: “don’t comment after Daryl Scroggins.”)
Buy Google stock
“cut your losses”
oh, and “let it go” and “it’s okay”.
That is a tough one. There’ve been a number of selves along the way, each of whom might have benefited from a different bit of wisdom. Not that any of them would have paid attention.
It strikes me now that encouragement is more valuable than any advice per se. Encouragement is what I’d choose to give my younger self — or any young person.
“Your purpose will find you.”
to run out of money and breath at the same time. stolen from Bobby Layne
Stay off those damned computers when they’re invented someday.
Have fun – always.
Note to self: bring Pepto on first date.
And try not to shit your pants. Ever.
Things are only going to get worse.
that hot guy David from college wanted to bag you, but you were too fucking insecure to realize that and now that opportunity is gone and you could’ve had a super time.
and stay out of the fucking sun
stay far away from former ballerinas.
and go to more ballets.
Andrew, you’ve told me a great fucking story.
[...] 18, 2008 What would you tell your younger self? Posted by Rick Neece Filed in clusterflock, for one in particular, spirit Tags: Purpose, [...]
Your college boyfriend won’t be worth keeping. You don’t belong in the homeland defense industry, and the music industry isn’t as hard to break into as you’ve been told. Also, have kids sooner – they’re less work than you think, and way funnier, and you’re not getting any younger.
Deron, I have a few.
nothing will turn out the way you think it will or should.
and…
do more, talk less.
Avoid creepy guy in the adult video store, circa 1993.
Andrew, yours is indeed — as Deron put it — “a great fucking story”. Its value as advice is confirmed, I believe, by my knowing at least a couple of other people who might have done well to heed it.
Get yourself two reel-to-reel recorders and learn something from Discreet Music.
You win, Cooper. Best Advice to Younger Self. And — best of all — you can still do it!
She’s not the one.
other people care about what’s in it for them, dumbass.