• Forum Moderator applications are now open! If you're interested in joining an active team of moderators for one of the biggest Pokémon forums on the internet, click here for info.

If you could write a letter to your ten-year-old self...

Ranmaru

Ranmaru

Custom User Title
Grookey Fan
Joined
Feb 11, 2009
Messages
184
Reaction score
1
What would you write? Would you tell yourself to prevent yourself from commiting a mistake, or would you tell yourself to hold on, because you would be a AWESOME? Or would you tell yourself hello and just explain how well you have done in the future, so that you ten years ago may have a role model. Or well you tell yourself to do something to willfully have a paradox happen? Hey, its your letter.


So, whats it gonna be? Heres mine:

Ok self! Its me, from the future! Don't fret, and don't tell the handicapped kid what gay really means! Also, ask out the red head girl. No apparent reason, just do it. Don't go out on saturday to get high, cuz you'll get caught. By your mom. YES YOUR MOM. Yeah you say you won't smoke but thats just bs. Ummm, don't listen to your friend. She is worth it. Don't pass her up. Also, don't get Brawl. You'll underdraft and then you'll have no job. Plus, don't switch from Disney World to Primerica, it'll take a looooooOOOOOOng time to recover from that. One more thing, don't kick the wall cuz it will HURT.

EDIT: ALSO DON'T TRUST BANKS YOU ALWAYS UNDERDRAFT LIKE A TON GAH

Also you will move alot... so don't get to comfortable. Yeah I know, it sucks. Trust me. Later on in life you will get to play more videogames and have a girlfriend, it's no biggie. Fights? They will happen anyways. Try to get a liscence though...

LOVE
YOU
FROM LATER ON IN LIFE
Click to expand...
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

In all honesty, as much regrets as I already have, I probably wouldn't want to change anything. Because you never know what vital parts of your life you could change. O.O

So I probably wouldn't send a letter to the past if I had a chance.
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

You're going to be fine. Just keep going, and forget what everyone says. Give it two more years, and you'll the happiest person alive. You'll never see most of these people ever again anyways. And try to forgive Dad. It's easier that way.

Oh, and ignore every horrible thing Sean says, he just ends up in jail later on anyways.
Click to expand...
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

I never wrote a letter to my 10-year-old self, but I did write one to myself in 10 years for a school assignment. Let's see, that was in end 2007. I forgot what I wrote in it, so I hope I can find that letter when I'm 23 xD

If I had to write a letter to my 10 year old self? I wouldn't do it. I just don't see the point.
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

I'd write...

Don't give up on Pokemon. Yu-Gi-Oh is just a fad anyways. Pokemon will bring you great happiness.

Also, stop being an arrogant jerk. That way your future self won't have to write you telling you being an arrogant jerk is a bad thing. Trust me. It's worth it.

Also, don't bother with Jackie. She's a bitch.
Click to expand...
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

The only thing I would probably say is stay out of the drama, both in real like and online, and to skip questions you don't know on your permit test so that you can pass it on your first try. ;)
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

Take up a sport.
Be more open about things.
Don't judge to quickly.
Be able to detach yourself from things emotionally. You will need to prepare.
Click to expand...

There is probably more if I put more thought into it.
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

I'd probably say, be more open and socially active.
Doesn't hurt to crack a smile here or there.


Thanks.
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

I'd say

Hey, it's yourself! Whatever you do, do NOT tell a girl named Desirae Diaz you like her! Or any girl for that matter. None of them will EVER like you (but that's ok, they're bitches anyway. Don't get too close to Dad either. This may sound odd but he's just going to shit all over you when you're 13. Oh and try not to make friends with a kid named Joseph. You'll easily resist smoking pot, but its better to stay on the safe side. Stay positive and this, I cannot stress enough PLAY THE TUBA ASAP!!!
Love, Daniel
Click to expand...
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

Next week's numbers are 27-36-09-13-04. The jackpot is 153 million pesos.
Go get 'em, tiger.

P.S: You know how you've never had a boyfriend and never let that one douche from your class mack on you? Good choice. Being single is the greatest thing ever.

P.P.S: When you move back to America, don't EVER ride the crowded buses back home. Bad things happen.
Click to expand...
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

You know... I think I'm not good at giving advice to myself. Maybe I don't care about my past. xD So many things I could have included, but I only manage to write about avoiding dumb things.

But:

Snape Kills Dumbledore.

Me <3
Click to expand...
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

Okay mini me, listen up.
The date is October 2nd 2005. Happy 10th birthday.
I have a pretty good birthday present for you.
Advice.

1. The Game Boy Colour and Pokémon Gold you just got. Start with Totodile, not Cyndaquil. And don't get too attached to the Totodile.

2. Don't tell your little sister about your older sister's ex-boyfriend.
This may seem like odd advice given that you don't have sisters.
But you will.
srsly.

3. In Greece, don't jump off the jacuzzi into the pool. Don't fed stray cats in the hotel room and don't move the deck chairs. Also, tell dad to get a haircut BEFORE we go over there.

4.You're going to get a new blood related brother on your dad's side. Congrats :P

5.DON'T DATE YOUR GOOD FRIENDS
this is important!
Especially important on December 31 2009.

That's all for the advice.
Enjoy you life, me!
Click to expand...
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

Hey little Mackie,
So, listen. You're gonna beat Crystal really soon, if you haven't already. No worries there. I have a few things to say to you, even though trying to change the past never works. I'mma ignore the outside world stuff because pf that.
1) Play the guitar and piano and harmonica non-stop; you will get good.
2) Twenty-three year old men are temptations that must be avoided. For serious now.
3) You're gonna be a big, giant nerd. No avoiding it.
4) Steve Bays will get engaged, and he will still be your celebrity crush when you're fifteen, pathetically enough.
5) Be smart! Don't do dumb things, ever. M'kay?
6) There are flutes in Super Mario Bros. 3, it will help you a lot.
7) Keep the memory card for your Game Cube - you're gonna want it in the future.
So, I haven't turned out so screwed up. Smile, short kid.
Love, me. Or you. Or maybe us. WE. Yes, love we.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

Dear 10 year old self:

Can you please help us out by doing a few things differently than you normally do before the end of the school year?

1. You will find two old communication notebooks within the next few years. One will be unearthed in roughly a year, and the other will be discovered in an additional two and a half years or so. These will turn out to be needed and valuable by the year 2007, so you need to make sure they don't get destroyed. Keep the red one (the first one you will find) in your dresser and always keep it with important things when you move from city to city. Also, please don't let your parents use that self-storage company in '03, because it will flood and you will lose not only the red notebook but also nearly all of your videos, several books, and heaps of important documents and equipment that you will later need for various purposes. As for the blue one, this is what you need to do: Read it once, then put it away in your dresser as well. You will go out to dinner that night at a buffet in the middle of reading it. As tempting as it may seem to take it with you, please resist the urge. Also, do not keep rereading it over and over, that's how covers and pages start to fall off. In addition, keep the floor of your room SPARKLING CLEAN, because otherwise, late in the summer of '05, your stepfather is going to become so fed up with it that he will throw away everything on it made of paper, including your notebooks, your large collections of Nick Mag and Reader's Digest, the lists you were making that morning, and many books that he couldn't recognize under all that paper, many of which are hard-to-find out-of-print comic strip book collections that you will have grown to cherish by then.

2. Save as many photos and photo albums as possible, of things that are happening to you now and of things that happened to you or others already. (Especially save at least five pictures of each of your cats.) Additionally, if you come across photos similar to ones you already have when visiting our grandparents, please leave them there. The reason? In the future, there will be this awesome website called Facebook which you will be an active member of, though anonymously. You will also have your own personal scanner for your own personal computer (neat, eh?), so you will want to show off your old pics to all your Facebook friends using the scanner. If you don't do this, your collections of old pics will have a lot of things missing. You will only have one picture of Putty and NONE of Snuggles to upload.

I suggest you also take many more pictures than you would have thought to between the years of 2002 and 2007. Save up money to keep buying throwaway cameras, and take it upon yourself to snap as many pics as possible, especially at family or social events. Write notes on the back to help me remember what was going on. Keep the pics safe.

3. Bad news for you: By the time you're me, there will be no more Wonder Balls. There will be no more Burger King Shake 'Em Up Fries. Littlest Pet Shop will be redesigned to look more like Bratz dolls, and you will lose interest in them. Nickelodeon will no longer have a splat in its logo, and it will not be selling Gak, Goooze, Smatter, Skweez, Zyrofoam, Splat, Splish Splat, Gak Splat, or anything of the sort (Smatter, in particular, will be recalled because the cans will explode in kids' faces). Also, many of the shows you love in 2000 will have ended way before 2010, and they will have been superceded by lots of new shows that aren't even close to the feel of the channel back then. Cartoon Network will go through a similar transformation, and (this may seem crazy but) it will also start showing live action shows, despite the fact that it will still be called Cartoon Network. The giant party store near Grandma's house, as well as the Kmart down the road from her, the mall behind the school, and a lot of the other buildings you remember from 2000 will be closed down, and not all of them will be replaced. You WILL move more than 10 times in your life before the age of 20, and each time, saying goodbye will be just as painful. And after September of 2007, you will never, ever taste lemon gravy again. It is a taste you will yearn for forever after. So cherish these things while you still have them around.

4. Of course, there is good news as well: In 2003, Chicken McNuggets will taste and feel 50,000 times better, because (I'm about to freak you out) they will finally start using 100% white meat chicken, and they will stay that way forever. Technology will improve rapidly, to the point where you will be able to find old songs and videos on the Internet from other people, totally free, that you missed from the past, and you will be able to download them using cool software and save them to your computer (and later, CDs, DVDs, and music/video players), so you will not lose all your childhood memories. You will also have your own cell phone, which will be able to do so many things you can't imagine will be possible at your point in time. Some of your old favorites, like Pokemon, SpongeBob, and The Fairly OddParents will still be around in 2010, and still making new stuff, albeit with multiple changes from the original (one new character in Pokemon will be a good change though ;)). It will be easier and faster to look up information when you need it, thanks to the abundance of reference Websites that will give you an answer to a predicament with a couple of clicks and a handful of keystrokes. You WILL learn to type efficiently by age 16, but please don't hit the typing teacher that year or you will spend your first day as a 16 year old suspended from school. And the best news of all? Remember that girl in third grade that used to torture you at every given opportunity? On November 5, 2005, you two will reunite, but she will no longer be the bully she used to be, and from that day forth, you and her will be bestest-best friends. So don't make fun of her while away from her, because you will grow up to feel REALLY bad about it (even though it won't affect your friendship with her whatsoever). Please look forward to these things and don't focus too much on the bad things going on around you right now.

5. One more thing before I let you go: Please, for your sake, for my sake, for the sake of our family, and for the sake of everyone in your school, kick Mrs. Soares in the you know where. Just once. You may get in big trouble, but it will sound much more interesting and heroic to your future friends and dates than telling them about how she always used to make you cry and you could never fight back. Plus, I'm pretty sure our mom wouldn't mind, considering everything she's done to you so far and will do to you for the rest of the 2000-2001 school year.

Good luck,

Your almost-20-year-old self.
 
Last edited:
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

Dear self,

- In Emerald, whatever you do, DON'T hatch a Seedot and teach it Giga Drain, and DON'T teach a freaking Oddish Toxic and Sunny Day!

- Also, there's this cool feature introduced in Ruby and Saphhire called "EV Training"...you should read about it.

- Special attacks suck on Relicanth. Go physical instead.

- You're gonna have crushes on multiple anime girls. Don't worry, it's normal.

- Several years from now, your mom will discover certain..."pictures"...inadvertently when she's inserting pictures into Microsoft Word. To avoid this, stuff them in a sub-folder. The same goes for ANY pictures you'd be embarrassed for your mom to find.

- There'll be a REALLY hot new female character in an upcoming Pokemon game, but sadly she won't be following Ash.

- You're gonna turn into a Japan-lover, and there ain't nothin' you can do about it.

- Learn to control your temper.

- Don't be a turtle in C&C.

- Get better at first-person shooters.

- A few years from now, you'll be so fed up with regular school your dad will find you an online school. There, you will meet a girl named Ashley when you're in the ninth grade. Don't "fling" with her, it's all or nothing. And do NOT drop out of contact with her over the summer. Trust me, if you do, you WILL feel crappy about it later.

- "Crap" and "sucks" aren't bad words, nor are "sexy" and "boobs." Just...try not to say those last two around your parents.

- And lastly, try not to lose your self-confidence. Believe me, it really sucks.


Signed,
You, five years from now.
 
Re: If you could write a letter to your ten year old self

I'd tell myself not to join this site because you guys SUCK!

Just kidding.

I'd tell myself not to slack off in 11th grade.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom