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Post by ironbite on Nov 12, 2011 3:03:28 GMT -5
Serious question but what would young!Cait think of you doing nude modeling?
Ironbite-or at least showing some skin on the internet?
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Post by The_L on Nov 12, 2011 8:29:22 GMT -5
Cait: My attitude regarding clothing did that same 180 in about 5 years. The clothes I used to wear partying are now things I only wear around the house (or maybe going to the supermarket or Wal-Mart; no one there cares if you look like complete garbage).
The person I was 10 years ago would be utterly terrified of me, and go into Hyper Guilt Mode. "I'm going to eat meat during Lent? And...and masturbate? And have sex without being married? With more than one guy during the same time period? And not go to Mass? And swear? But....but...but...*head asplode*"
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Post by itachirumon on Nov 12, 2011 9:01:27 GMT -5
I think about that sort of stuff all the time - I note how much I've changed in even just 4-5 years, and I feel like either 18 year old me would hug me seeing how much I've changed or I'd hug him recognizing all the shit he had yet to go through to become me. S'not weird at all, it's introspective and deep.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Nov 12, 2011 17:04:23 GMT -5
10 year old me, if he ever met current me, would deny that I exist, run to his parents, and hide from me.
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Post by Random Guy on Nov 12, 2011 20:21:18 GMT -5
(tl;dr version: Future Me Scares Me. Warning: TV Tropes link.) Let's see... At 14, I was still a few years away from realizing that my evangelical Christian leaders weren't the great and wise people I'd taken them for. I honestly believed that homosexuality was inherently wrong and that "magic" actually existed as the result of people receiving power from the Devil, though I wasn't convinced that Harry Potter had anything to do with it. I was still apprehensive about any work of fiction that featured magic in any way, though. As for creationism, I actually thought that most Christians, including the fundies I knew, accepted evolution and creationism was limited to a few fringe groups nobody took seriously. I would learn that I was very wrong two years later. I was also unconsciously repressing my bisexuality, both because of the aforementioned involvement in evangelical Christianity and because I already had enough trouble with the locker room bullies. This extended so far that I would become frightened at the thought that two guys making out intrigued me and comments like "That tight shirt (not intentional, it had shrunk in the wash) looks feminine" and "Those shorts are too short" got to me a lot more than they otherwise would. I would latch on to the fact that I liked girls to give me a sense of security. As long as I knew that, it meant I wasn't "GAY." So if 14-year-old me met 24-year-old me, he'd probably go into shock at seeing what I've become. I'm not sure what either of us would say to each other, but he'd probably go into an angry rant toward me after getting over his initial shock. I don't know how I could possibly defuse the situation.
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Post by largeham on Nov 12, 2011 20:45:26 GMT -5
I would say (considering that the majority of people here seem to be young) that ourselves a decade ago would be quite surprised to say the least. I know my 8 year old self would be horrified at the drinking, smoking (funny 'cause I got my dad to quit at around that time), masturbating, the green, the long hair and the lack of dinosaur books. Also the politics: "Huh? What's a communist?"
I have to agree with itachirumon and possibly go further. I dare say myself a year ago was quite different to what I am now (not radically, but noticeably, maybe).
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Post by Caitshidhe on Nov 12, 2011 21:02:56 GMT -5
We're mostly quite young, yeah, but myself from ten years ago is still in her mid-teens.
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Post by ironbite on Nov 12, 2011 21:12:14 GMT -5
16 year old me is still reeling from the fact I moved cross country for a girl to be anything else but amazed.
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Post by canadian mojo on Nov 13, 2011 1:33:03 GMT -5
We're mostly quite young, yeah, but myself from ten years ago is still in her mid-teens. Wish I could say the same thing. I have to go back a couple of decades plus a few more years to hit 16. A young mojo would look at me and exclaim "Wow, you got fucking old! And what's with looking like a bad-ass? I figured you'd be wearing a suit and tie."
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Post by Khris on Nov 13, 2011 7:56:32 GMT -5
If i meet me from five years ago id probably scare him shitless seeing as in five years iv grown facial hair gotten some what taller stopped caring what America does and become what i loathed the most at the time a none Christian.
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Post by Yla on Nov 13, 2011 16:29:09 GMT -5
Tom, can you use a variant of English I can read instead of having to translate it? (LRN2SPL!1)
I don't know about 10 years ago, but 5 years ago I had just shed the last remnants of organized Christianity (largely motivated by my religion teacher, ironically enough), started to be interested in some New Age beliefs, and became a seeker in spiritual matters. I spent many a night pacing in my room, thinking. Oh, and I still had short hair back then.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Nov 13, 2011 16:42:50 GMT -5
11-year-old me would go berserk at my short hair, music preferences, sexual/gender identities, and atheism. She was weirded out enough when she figured out that she liked to look at girls.
Also, she never thought she'd go to college and would instead marry a certain boy and have babies, so she probably wouldn't recognize me at all.
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Post by John E on Nov 13, 2011 16:55:04 GMT -5
Deadpan, your sig freaks me out. lol
10 years ago me was dating my now wife, working at a print shop, going to ren fairs and conventions... So I guess in my case, 10 years ago me would just wonder why I haven't done more with my life yet. I should be a famous artist/author/Lottery millionaire by now.
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Post by davedan on Nov 13, 2011 17:29:57 GMT -5
10 years ago I had already been married for 1 year, moved into my first place with my wife who was working while I finished my degrees. Had no kids. Was having lots of fun. Probably wouldn't be too surprised where I have ended up. Might have been a bit sad to find I hadn't travelled more before having kids.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Nov 13, 2011 17:34:24 GMT -5
Deadpan's sig looks like a younger version of one of my bosses. It's actually really uncanny...! Nash is adorable. *scritches his goatee* That is his "alien pants are going to rape me" face, by the way.
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