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If You Could Be 16 Again...

CFC said:
I agree, for most of us it's probably best not to think too much :LOL:

Or to quote someone else:

"when you can do whatever you want [ie: free will]; What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"
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I call it freedom. To wake up and do what you want to do. My quote under my posts (which I'm assuming you're referring to) is meant to be a personal question. You can answer it however you like :) .
 
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I find we do the same stuff for the same reasons again and again. I've tried to recapture the past multiple times and repeat well what was a failure the first time and the second; either I ran into similar problems I had forgotten about or circumstances had changed so much it wasn't possible anymore at that time.

In my life (47) I have learned things very much to my profit, although not financially. I think money itself is boring. It needs to be in order, but otherwise it doesn't much interest me.

I attended at the cremation of my lover (73) at Père Lachaise crematory.

There's no tertiary diploma, there's no real career (but I do actually work for a living - from time to time).

But no one can say I haven't tried to make something out of my life.

I think it's better to learn the lessons from life and turn the page.
 
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Chaurus said:
I find we do the same stuff for the same reasons again and again. I've tried to recapture the past multiple times and repeat well what was a failure the first time and the second; either I ran into similar problems I had forgotten about or circumstances had changed so much it was possible anymore at that time.

In my life (47) I have learned things very much to my profit, although not financially. I think money itself is boring. It needs to be in order, but otherwise it doesn't much interest me.

I attended at the cremation of my lover (73) at Père Lachaise crematory.

There's no tertiary diploma, there's no real career (but I do actually work for a living - from time to time).

But no one can say I haven't tried to make something out of my life.

I think it's better to learn the lessons from life and turn the page.
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I, too, find myself perpetually chasing the euphoria of nostalgia.
 
I wouldn't warn her about the bad times, because I would want everything to turn out the same. I would tell her that listening to her heart, as she was about to do, would pay off. I would tell her she was about to go through a lot, but it would all be okay. I would tell her to visit her grandparents more and ask questions I wanted to know later. I would tell her when she comes home to hang out more with her parents instead of making friend's rounds. I would tell her to take her dad for a ride like they used to do before his time ran out. I wouldn't have been so hard on my mom. and instead of telling her what she could do to be better, I would accept and love her just as she was and built that up. Appreciate all the little things because they will be remembered more then the grand ones.
 
if I could be 16 again I would tell my dad to go fuck himself before he degraded and humiliated me.
 
Dump all my fake friends and would have stayed with the one.
i broke up, maybe in her best interest. She was the love of my life.
i could have ruined her s.
 
Opi_Kid_Rock said:
At 17, I gave up on computer programming because I thought C++ was boring. But if I did end up becoming a programmer of some kind which is all the rage these days, how would I know if I’d be happier though?

If I had a chance to try again, yeah I would have tried to get into law school but what if I would just become one of those unemployed law school graduates with their JD?

It took a lot for me to learn to not miss what could have been. So why start now?
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Could be you were just ahead of the curve. I spent two decades as 'the assembly language guy' at a software house where when a game was finished, a profiler would spot the code hogging the cycles and I would rewrite it in hand-optimized assembly language. But that sort of ended when consoles just became PCs in boxes.

I know MANY people I worked with who are still in the industry and not one of them seems happy with their work. Now it's just for the money.

I couldn't hack that. My goal was to be better than the compilers of the time and to recognize that a routine written to handle a general case can be swapped for one that only need work for the cases that will be encountered. So fun... but I don't think ANYONE things the games industry is a 'fun' place to work now. Work is farmed out to programers who only understand the bits they wrote and the result is that a specification is given, it's coded. Nobody says 'we can do even more' because the ONLY result would me MORE work and no recognition.
 
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