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What advice I would like to give to my 18 year old self
As they say? You are always smarter afterwards. What would you say to the younger you if you could? These readers tell us about it.
Oh, what would it be if we had time machines and could visit our former selves to give us important advice for the future. Because hardly anyone looks back into the past and does not regret at least one thing that they have done, experienced or simply not done or not experienced. Whether it’s an illness you could have avoided, a toxic marriage, or the Abitur you never graduated from. Some things can be made up for as an adult, others are lost forever.
The colleagues from Eltern.de shared a post from “Stadt, Land, Mama” on their Facebook page and asked: If you could say one sentence to your 18 year old self – what would it be?
The response was unbelievable, more than 1000 readers told us what advice they would like to give to their former self. The answers were funny, touching, sad and encouraging. We fished you out twenty times. And at this point it should be said: It’s great that so many took part. The answers were really inspiring and moving!
What I advise my 18 year old self
1 of 20
“No matter what comes, you will make it.”
2 of 20
“Nothing! Because if everything hadn’t turned out the way it did, things would be different today. The past makes us what we are.”
3 of 20
“Either do not get married or only with a prenuptial agreement!”
4 of 20
“You are strong and everything that will happen in the next few years will only make you stronger.”
5 of 20
“Take care of your body – it won’t be like that again …”
6 of 20
“Don’t worry too much about what others might think of you, because their world usually revolves around other than you and you are only sad or insecure because of your own thoughts.”
7 of 20
“Separate yourself from him and you will be spared a lot of suffering.”
8 of 20
“Have a child by the age of 30 at the latest, no matter what!”
9 of 20
“You found the man for life, the baby had the best father in the world.”
10 of 20
“Buy more shoes, we’ll have enough space later.”
11 of 20
“It’s okay to be a mom so young, you can do it and have a beautiful daughter … Then there are 4 more incredible children who mean the world to you. Have trust and the knowledge that everything happens for a reason . “
12 of 20
“Just take a more relaxed look at some things, it helps with healing.”
13 of 20
“Everything done right. That’s the only reason I’m the person I am now. You learn from experience.”
14 of 20
“Love your parents every day as if the last one was with them today.”
15 of 20
“I would watch myself in silence and laugh secretly. I wouldn’t advise anything – that would endanger my own existence. He should just do it, get pissed off and grow on it.”
16 of 20
“Do what is important to you and not what your mother wants you to do !!”
17 of 20
“Sort out some people from your life sooner.”
19 of 20
“Eighteen years later, care for the elderly is not as great as it seems to you!”
20 of 20
“Hold on, your life will be great.”
Sure, we all would have liked to have known better when we were 18. On the other hand, that time was probably so exciting because we didn’t know much about life, right? A few comments make it clear: We learn from mistakes and nobody lives their life without paying apprenticeship fees. Even if it is not always easy, it depends on Buddhist wisdom “Don’t chase the past. Don’t get lost in the future. The past is no more. The future has not yet come ” definitely something to it!
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