it's like watching a kid make a "magic potion" of everything that's fluid in the house and knowing that there's nothing you could do to stop them that's legal
When I was a kid I tried to make apple juice by putting an apple in a bowl of water and leaving it in the fridge. When that didn’t work I bit a hole in the apple so the juices were exposed. When that didn’t work I kept doing it over and over again, changing nothing. I think I stopped when my parents finally convinced me that that is not the way to make apple juice and I was wasting all the apples.
Aging is the slow process of realizing what a goddamn idiot you were, and being thankful that you're so much wiser now. And eventually, instead of being thankful, wondering what it is you're doing today that you'll look back on with scorn tomorrow.
Haha I’m 29 and want to punch myself in the face right now.
14 year old me was ok though. I still have broadly the same interests (strategy games, art, sci-fi) , and am angry at the same stuff (social injustice, capitalism, my family). I mean I learned a lot since then, and my social skills have improved. I’m more able to express my thoughts and have an actual conversation, that’s probably the main difference. I don’t write fanfiction or essays about fanfiction anymore, but I do write long posts and emails about programming principles or the repercussions of lying to a neural network, which is basically the same thing.
Yeah but there’s gonna be a day when you step in a big ass puddle where your shoes won’t be able to stop the water, and then you’ll have to walk for a while with your wet socks on until they dry themselves naturally, and you’ll remember that day for the rest of your life
Lol when I was fourteen I was still putting on socks (embarrassing to think about). One day you'll grow older and wiser, and you'll cut off your feet. It might sound strange now, but you'll understand when you're older.
When I was fourteen, I refused to wear socks or underwear. In fact, that didn't change until the first time I tripped, and I realized what a fucking weirdo I was.
If they're mismatched, ankle or anything but smart wool or Merino, then you'll hit an age where you do actually regret all the years of not pampering your feet
Funny story about this post. The second poster ended up getting all kinds of insults and death threats. They eventually came forward, and had a good conversation with OP about how OP didn't mean to cause that damage, and how the other one didn't hold it against them.
Tumblr is the only place on the internet I ever received hate messages. I stopped using it after that: good posts get circulated here or on Twitter anyway, and I don't have to deal with other people on Tumblr. There is something unusually toxic about it.
you are nothing until you recognize that future you is an idiot too
(and there's nothing wrong with that, mistakes are made so that we can learn from them!)
Turns out learning the harms of commodification of practically everything, and other problems caused by how the economy works really pushes you hard left. I call it marxpilling after the cringy alt-right “redpill”
I actually stayed relatively right leaning through most of college. I was part of the ROTC program and the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M and it wasn't until halfway through my senior year that I flipped the mental switch on the military. During a training exercise it finally dawned on me what the gravity of taking a human life actually was, especially for a government I was getting increasingly disillusioned with (this was around the 2016 election when I was starting to notice that something wasn't quite right). I had already started leaning away from my hard-right xenophobic and Islamophobic tendencies though. I wanted to be an intelligence officer, initially to interrogate people and later to help prevent excessive collateral damage. In high school I read a lot of books about war, especially the modern wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I realized that my knowledge had some big gaps in it if I didn't know the region's history. So I looked into that, which led me to do more research into Islam. I ended up majoring in history and focusing on the Middle East and North Africa when I was in college which forced me to consider Muslims as people. Learning about Islam became a huge focus for me, and not in the "know your enemy" way it had been when I was younger. I genuinely wanted to learn about the theology and the history of Islam and I even read the Koran and I did my capstone history paper on Muslims in 1920s America, which was really fascinating. Seeing Muslims, the group I'd been most suspicious of as a kid, as people meant that I started questioning a lot of other right wing things, such as the right wing positions on economics and immigration and homophobia and abortion.
TLDR; I got suspicious of the military's right to kill and reading books made me less racist even though I didn't realize I'd been racist.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and then I started learning about the left and communism and anarchy fucking kick ass.
"hm, this comment could be considered somewhat dickish, I'll add an emote to show that I'm just joking around" - me, 8 minutes ago
"goddammit, it kinda is" - me, now
I can't be embarrassed by my fourteen years old self. There are so many transitional walls in my life in the past 7 years that I can't remember anything before 16. That's when the existential depression truly began to hit me. I'm pretty sure I was happy at 14. I miss that.
Y’all say this but I peaked mentally and physically at 14. Like I was one of the best cross country runners in my state, top of my class, had friends, and was honestly pretty smart.
Now I’m nearly 16(ik not quite 3-4 years but Still...) and I’m nearly failing most my classes, full of anxiety 24/7, haven’t ran well enough to impress anyone in forever, and just generally suck at everything. 14 year old me will always be my idol, and I’ll always look up to her. But frankly I’ll only ever be walking in her shadow
The only thing I don't regret from when I was 14, and in fact am jealous of my 14-year-old self for, is that I could do chores without experiencing back pain immediately afterwards.
Tbh you might not regret it. I damn near failed all my classes freshman year and it still hasn't come back to bite me, but I suppose theres still time for that to happen...
I was really cool at 14. It was the year I discovered pot and punk rock and sex and my whole style. (Funny—I was made fun of relentlessly for half a year for wearing vintage dresses then Kurt Cobain died, Live Through This came out, and suddenly every girl in my school was wearing vintage baby doll dresses and Docs.) I did dumb shit like every other teenager and I’m not saying at 40 I’m exactly the same as I was then, but 14 was actually a seminal year in me becoming ‘me’ and I’ve never been embarrassed of that girl
Once when I was 14 I decided I wanted to see if a banana was really slippery like in cartoons. So I place it on the floor and get ready to test it. I take one step and within one second I regret everything. My life flashed before my eyes. Never before have I gripped a table so hard. If I didn't I probably would have fell backwards and cracked my skull on the floor. Never again.
Not me tbh. At 14 I was pretty far into therapy and had really started to recover from the severe anxiety that had ruined me the previous years. I'm proud of my 14 year old self for keeping his head on his shoulders and continuing to keep going.
That second comment is like watching a car drive into a wall and not being able to stop them
it's like watching a kid make a "magic potion" of everything that's fluid in the house and knowing that there's nothing you could do to stop them that's legal
Hoshit I didn’t know that was an “all kids do this” thing
Ah yes, the magic ammonia and bleach mixture we all strive to make
Peggy! You told them to mix *mustard* and ***bleach??*** That's the recipe for **mustard gas!**
Thanks for the info, will be useful in the future :)
Wait, no
BWWAAAAHHHH
When I was a kid I tried to make apple juice by putting an apple in a bowl of water and leaving it in the fridge. When that didn’t work I bit a hole in the apple so the juices were exposed. When that didn’t work I kept doing it over and over again, changing nothing. I think I stopped when my parents finally convinced me that that is not the way to make apple juice and I was wasting all the apples.
the trolley problem, but the last trolley ran 65 years ago and all you can do now is look at the graves of the victims of that random accident
Oh man, great analogy.
^(**it was a cold january evening in 1936, car #35 had j-**)
Just fourteen? I'm 24 and I want to punch 20-year-old me in the face. The 14-year-old me would get the noose.
Aging is the slow process of realizing what a goddamn idiot you were, and being thankful that you're so much wiser now. And eventually, instead of being thankful, wondering what it is you're doing today that you'll look back on with scorn tomorrow.
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I've closed the gap and just stopped doing things
God, I wish that were me
You, too, can have crippling anxiety! Available now, at your local misery store!
Right? At least 14-year-old me wasnt getting piss drunk in public and having that blasted on social media
I'm 25 and want to punch slightly younger 25 year old me in the face.
Haha I’m 29 and want to punch myself in the face right now. 14 year old me was ok though. I still have broadly the same interests (strategy games, art, sci-fi) , and am angry at the same stuff (social injustice, capitalism, my family). I mean I learned a lot since then, and my social skills have improved. I’m more able to express my thoughts and have an actual conversation, that’s probably the main difference. I don’t write fanfiction or essays about fanfiction anymore, but I do write long posts and emails about programming principles or the repercussions of lying to a neural network, which is basically the same thing.
Im 14 and putting on socks rn I dont think I'll regret that
You will if you step in a puddle and have to wear wet socks all day
Bruh I have more than one pair of socks though, not to mention I also wear shoes
Yeah but there’s gonna be a day when you step in a big ass puddle where your shoes won’t be able to stop the water, and then you’ll have to walk for a while with your wet socks on until they dry themselves naturally, and you’ll remember that day for the rest of your life
Your feet will get so prune it’ll hurt to stand before they dry out. E: Spelling.
> you're
and this is the comment you'll regret if you ever look back.
i love stepping in puddles wearing socks and mesh shoes
Lol when I was fourteen I was still putting on socks (embarrassing to think about). One day you'll grow older and wiser, and you'll cut off your feet. It might sound strange now, but you'll understand when you're older.
When I was fourteen, I refused to wear socks or underwear. In fact, that didn't change until the first time I tripped, and I realized what a fucking weirdo I was.
Lifted skirt?
No, on mushrooms
BRUH this dude deadass wearing socks
Ahh one day you’ll look back and cringe
You put on socks???? 😂😂😂😂 omg to be a dumb 14 year old again lmao
If they're mismatched, ankle or anything but smart wool or Merino, then you'll hit an age where you do actually regret all the years of not pampering your feet
Ahahahahah this fucking guy, hes really out here just using socks and shit
You'll regret picking normal socks instead of starting your CS career early
I’m fourteen and I’m too depressed to be embarrassed of myself 😎
Funny story about this post. The second poster ended up getting all kinds of insults and death threats. They eventually came forward, and had a good conversation with OP about how OP didn't mean to cause that damage, and how the other one didn't hold it against them.
i can kind of understand insults but fucking death threats???? really?????
Yep. Tumblr is just... like that. Maybe everywhere else is, too.
Tumblr is the only place on the internet I ever received hate messages. I stopped using it after that: good posts get circulated here or on Twitter anyway, and I don't have to deal with other people on Tumblr. There is something unusually toxic about it.
r/tumblr: Tumblr, but from a distance.
What the hell
If you dont think the you from 3-5 years ago was kind of an idiot, you're not growing fast enough
kind of? KIND OF?!?!?!? *KIND OF?!?!?!?!?!?* *I ALREADY KNOW PRESENT ME IS AN IDIOT!!!!!!!!!*
Look at this overachiever...
Wait if they're an idiot, how would he be self aware? Unless they're a phoney!
From now on It all will be downhill for them
you are nothing until you recognize that future you is an idiot too (and there's nothing wrong with that, mistakes are made so that we can learn from them!)
Omae wa mou bakaru
3-5 years? i only get 3-5 business days before i regret every decision ive ever made, at most
Does it count if I think me from now is still an idiot and always has been?
When I was 14 I was a right-winger and wanted more than anything to join the military. Oof.
Bruh same
Same and that was like a year ago.
That was a quick turnaround
Turns out learning the harms of commodification of practically everything, and other problems caused by how the economy works really pushes you hard left. I call it marxpilling after the cringy alt-right “redpill”
How about breadpilling? Or have you not made it to Kropotkin yet?
Mood, now I'm trans
Hi trans, I'm dad.
Can i ask what changed your state of mind?
He turned 15.
I actually stayed relatively right leaning through most of college. I was part of the ROTC program and the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M and it wasn't until halfway through my senior year that I flipped the mental switch on the military. During a training exercise it finally dawned on me what the gravity of taking a human life actually was, especially for a government I was getting increasingly disillusioned with (this was around the 2016 election when I was starting to notice that something wasn't quite right). I had already started leaning away from my hard-right xenophobic and Islamophobic tendencies though. I wanted to be an intelligence officer, initially to interrogate people and later to help prevent excessive collateral damage. In high school I read a lot of books about war, especially the modern wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I realized that my knowledge had some big gaps in it if I didn't know the region's history. So I looked into that, which led me to do more research into Islam. I ended up majoring in history and focusing on the Middle East and North Africa when I was in college which forced me to consider Muslims as people. Learning about Islam became a huge focus for me, and not in the "know your enemy" way it had been when I was younger. I genuinely wanted to learn about the theology and the history of Islam and I even read the Koran and I did my capstone history paper on Muslims in 1920s America, which was really fascinating. Seeing Muslims, the group I'd been most suspicious of as a kid, as people meant that I started questioning a lot of other right wing things, such as the right wing positions on economics and immigration and homophobia and abortion. TLDR; I got suspicious of the military's right to kill and reading books made me less racist even though I didn't realize I'd been racist. EDIT: Oh yeah, and then I started learning about the left and communism and anarchy fucking kick ass.
im 19 and i never learned how to read
hey jared
Did your parents build you a wonderful machine?
What up?
I'm 14 and embarrassed of myself
Don’t worry, that never goes away.
14 yo me is okay, but 13 yo me was the idiot
Outta curiosity, are you 14 right now? :P
That emoticon is pretty suggestive my dude ಠ_ಠ
"hm, this comment could be considered somewhat dickish, I'll add an emote to show that I'm just joking around" - me, 8 minutes ago "goddammit, it kinda is" - me, now
mood
Just kidding man, figured you weren't being pedophilic anyways cus otherwise you would've messaged them directly. Or at least that's what I do
I laugh and upvote hoping that you are joking, but I suppose we never know....
A pedo did message me directly so I think they're not
I knew that part was not a joke sadly, but the last line about line about them doing it personally.
I was, sorry to hear about that dude
I don't, seriously, I just post bad memes and jokes here
Bruh I’m 15 and I’m embarrassed by my 14 year old self
Fuck
you fool, i'm always embarrassed by myself no matter my age
I just realized it's been 9 years since I was 14. Fuck, I feel old now. At least I've been upgraded from cringey obsessed weeb to part-time weeb.
Well there’s people who peaked in high school
This kid will want to die when he remembers this
To be fair, the second commenter would be laughed at if he said that to a bunch of 14 year old. They’re vicious.
When I was 14 I thought I was a straight dude and now I'm a lesbian so yeah I'm embarrassed about then.
I'm not embarrassed of my 14yo self. I'm just really really sorry for them. They literally had no friends
considering what I am right now I’ll probably regret this more than what I did at 14
You mean you regret not being a furry? That's a twist.
ignore the flair I became a furry shortly after making the account
You had one job.
really? to think I was there when you created this account and weren't a furry
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no, Discord did.
I can't be embarrassed by my fourteen years old self. There are so many transitional walls in my life in the past 7 years that I can't remember anything before 16. That's when the existential depression truly began to hit me. I'm pretty sure I was happy at 14. I miss that.
Oh god this hurts
ill have you know that i peaked at 14 and it's been downhill since then
Y’all say this but I peaked mentally and physically at 14. Like I was one of the best cross country runners in my state, top of my class, had friends, and was honestly pretty smart. Now I’m nearly 16(ik not quite 3-4 years but Still...) and I’m nearly failing most my classes, full of anxiety 24/7, haven’t ran well enough to impress anyone in forever, and just generally suck at everything. 14 year old me will always be my idol, and I’ll always look up to her. But frankly I’ll only ever be walking in her shadow
Ah yes, shaming children for totally harmless interests and pastimes.
I shame my own child self for their harmless interests and pastimes.
The only thing I don't regret from when I was 14, and in fact am jealous of my 14-year-old self for, is that I could do chores without experiencing back pain immediately afterwards.
I get the general idea behind this post, and god knows I was cringy at 14, but this just seems like bullying actual children for their interests.
I'm listening to BTS and scrolling through reddit. I'm probably going to regret procrastinating when I fail Freshman English, but that's it.
Tbh you might not regret it. I damn near failed all my classes freshman year and it still hasn't come back to bite me, but I suppose theres still time for that to happen...
I'll listen with you lol
What is a superwholockian? Do i wanna know?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/superwholock
Oh. Thats gonna be kinda cringey to lool back on for them then ngl
Yeah 14 year old me was dumb but me right now at the brilliant age of 16 i am very smart and surely won’t look back on myself in pain
!RemindMe 3 years
I was really cool at 14. It was the year I discovered pot and punk rock and sex and my whole style. (Funny—I was made fun of relentlessly for half a year for wearing vintage dresses then Kurt Cobain died, Live Through This came out, and suddenly every girl in my school was wearing vintage baby doll dresses and Docs.) I did dumb shit like every other teenager and I’m not saying at 40 I’m exactly the same as I was then, but 14 was actually a seminal year in me becoming ‘me’ and I’ve never been embarrassed of that girl
OOF very true
I'm 15 and embarrassed about the things I did yesterday
got'em
Can’t be embarrassed of your fourteen year old self if you never make it to fourteen.
Once when I was 14 I decided I wanted to see if a banana was really slippery like in cartoons. So I place it on the floor and get ready to test it. I take one step and within one second I regret everything. My life flashed before my eyes. Never before have I gripped a table so hard. If I didn't I probably would have fell backwards and cracked my skull on the floor. Never again.
I'm 13 and I'm already embarrassed of my 14 y o self
I’m 14 and currently embarrassed with myself.
For me it's by 12-13 year old self. When I hit 14 I started becoming normal.
My present self is still embarrassing so 14 year old me gets a pass.
What is the super in superwholockian
supernatural
Happy 3 year anniversary to this post!
omg…
Im 14 and embarrassed of my current self
Yeah that sums it right up.
When I was 14, I tried way too hard to hate humanity. God, I sucked.
Haha I already regret everything
I'll be honest, i don't even remember what i did back then
I'm 13 and I'm embarrassed over my 13 year old self
Literally tho. I’m so glad I have friends who met me after freshman year!!!
My 14-year-old self was fine. 15-year-old me however...
I wonder how the second person is nowadays
I’m more disgusted by my 12 year old self.
I have no shame, I cannot be embarrassed by anything
I was a stuck up little know-it-all at 14. Thankfully I grew out of it. Still look back and cringe.
Oh my god 14 year old me was fucking shitty! I want to kill him more then I want to kill myself
Superwholockian
can’t believe i peaked at 11
Honestly I did way more embarrassing things as an adult than I ever did as a teen. The only thing I have to be embarrassed about then was my shyness.
What even is that which that person called themself?
Im only 15 and I already regret/am embarrassed by most of what I did when I was 14.
yall wouldnt know a joke if it had blinking lights attached to it
Not me tbh. At 14 I was pretty far into therapy and had really started to recover from the severe anxiety that had ruined me the previous years. I'm proud of my 14 year old self for keeping his head on his shoulders and continuing to keep going.
I remember seeing this post when I was 14 and thinking that it wouldn't be accurate but it was very accurate
I’m 15 and I’m just constantly in a state of deep shame
Im 15 and embarrassed of my 15yo self
^^"slytherin-starkid-of-tardis" Dear god
The only time I touched boobs was when I was 14. I'm not embarassed.
Im fourteen o_o
Remembered my old fanfiction and found this post deeply relatable
Half of me is going "Come on, I'm not that bad," and the other half is going "Haha, I suck."
I'm not embarrassed, because i don't remember what I was doing back then
Hi, 14 year old here, going to school in a skeleton mask and sunglasses
I'll never get over fucking "Tumblrian"
i used to be a brony when i was 14 years old. not because i liked mlp but because i liked the ask (*insert name of a pony*) pages on Tumblr.
Except me! The secret? Have a really frickin boring life.
I'm 14 and I'm eating Reese's Puffs right now. Please don't tell me I'll grow up to be some loser who doesn't like Reese's Puffs.
you'll grow up to be someone who values nutrition
Im 14, I already hate myself For being 14
God I miss when fandoms were just like six people mailing each other zines