2006-10-13 20:14:13 · 12 answers · asked by Mexie 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
My birthday was 10/12...I turned 42.
Things I wished I knew at 20....
Education is not as important as experience....
Men will say...and do anything to get into your pants....
Marriage is only needed if you want a child together.....
Life will go on despite many disappointments.....
Mom was wrong on many points....
Learn to cook...it is more fun and more nutritous than eating out...
It is ok to do things you are bad at....the point is having fun...not winning
High school is not real life
Loving yourself is the greatest love....without it...you can not truly love anyone else.
Live happy, joyous and free!
2006-10-13 20:35:05 · answer #1 · answered by newsgirlinos2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was 20 (at least for the first 11 months of being 20) I was like so many young people and had that "nothing will happen to me" feeling that is a luxury of youth and that I'm not sure young people shouldn't have.
I'd go out with my friends and not worry about what time of night it was. We'd be out talking and riding from one coffee place to another, enjoying that new-found freedom one has once parents can no longer set the rules about what time anyone comes home.
My parents used to say, "Please don't be out all hours of the night on the road. Too much can happen." I ignored them and exercised my "right" to disregard their "over-cautious"/"uptight" warnings.
One month before I turned 21 my two friends (both about to turn 21 as well) and I were out late one night, and a drunk and speeding driver came out of a lounge, crossed two lanes, and hit our car. My girlfriend never saw her 21st birthday.
I went on to have my family and my life, but if there were one thing I wish I knew when I was 20 was that my parents had good reason to think as they did. They weren't being "uptight" and "paranoid". They knew more than I did about the odds.
Just today a young, 21-year-old, college woman who has been missing in Vermont for a few days was found murdered. There is surveillance tape from a store, and she is shown walking the streets of Burlington, Vermont at about 2:30 a.m. (when she apparently met up with the person they're holding in custody).
Part of me loved feeling invincible, and that part of me wouldn't want to take that feeling away from today's 20-year-olds; most of me, though, wishes there were a way that today's 20-year-olds could just somehow know what I wish now that I knew then.
I tell myself that most people get through those high-risk/think-they're-invincible years without tragedy or horror; but if you're one of the minority who doesn't there is no going back and doing things differently.
2006-10-14 04:14:48 · answer #2 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now that I am 30 I wish I had known what I wanted to do with my life. Which is build street/hot rods. Now I know and am in school for it, but it is so hard to return to school after such a long break. I am the oldest person in my class and find it hard to relate to my classmates socially. I also find it hard to do homework and studying after school is over as opposed to a job you can leave and be done with at the end of the day. Unfortunately it was, and sometimes still is, frowned upon to take up a trade as opposed to going to college. Boy did I waste a lot of time partying. It is such a waste.
2006-10-14 03:22:39 · answer #3 · answered by sickcured? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish i had known what the life will be when I am 40 or may be 60.
And unforunately that is some thing no body knows and that is what every body ( George W Bush and down wards) are eager to know.
2006-10-14 03:33:27 · answer #4 · answered by bhimi6787 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish I had known about the internet!
I wish I had known that becomming a mother would be the most rewarding job in the universe I would have done it sooner.
I wish I would have known that life gets alot harder as you go along...!
2006-10-14 03:26:07 · answer #5 · answered by chiara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish I had known about wicca. that would have changed a lot of things for the better for me.
2006-10-14 03:20:05 · answer #6 · answered by Big hands Big feet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I wished i'd not taken my attitude towards my education so lightly
2006-10-14 06:27:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I already knew everything when I was 20.
2006-10-18 18:21:04 · answer #8 · answered by nacmanpriscasellers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wisdom in all its aspects (tolerance, knowledge etc...)
2006-10-14 04:54:34 · answer #9 · answered by Sweet Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That I was beautiful.
2006-10-14 03:22:31 · answer #10 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋