Not OC but it’s always retrospective. I am 38 and look back at my 20s and reflect on mistakes. Caring too much about how I was perceived, not caring enough about how I perceived myself. Not being honest with myself. Fortunately years and increased responsibility put into perspective the important versus the unimportant. I focus in things that make me happy, make my family happy. I focus less on doing things just because other people are doing them. I did a lot of stuff I didn’t want to do in my 20s because of where I was at in life.
And hey, not everyone’s dumb in their 20s. And if you’re in your 20s, there’s no point in reflecting on it. You are where you are, you do what you do, your life will end up wherever it ends up.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Lots of PTSD from being sold for sex by my parents.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ok so that took a turn in a direction I didn’t expect
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Look, the sex license sold by the government was really expensive. How else were they going to give him a brother?
Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Sounds to me like you weren’t dumb, you were just doing a bunch of Shit trying to heal from a shitty hand dealt by life. Healing requires dumb shit I believe. Were you not doing your best by the people around you? That’s what I would call dumb shit instead, if so, yeah.
But your comment shows a really stand-up side of you, so damn, congrats on becoming this person after all.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
This may be a controversial hot take but I don’t think that’s very good parenting.