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You see that pretty girl who lets you touch her? That's your wife.
See those kids - they are yours. That one can go hunting and will get more girls than you ever will, that one is as kind and caring as you can get, and that one will do dumb shit with you.
10 year old me didn't have much expectations about the future but I'd say 15 year old me would be most surprised about the fact that I have a girlfriend. If you were to then tell me that not only do I have a girlfriend but I also have a house and the truck I've always wanted it would literally blow his mind.
That I'm a girl now. Would have blown their mind that it was even possible. But then would have been disappointed in me for not having made a video game yet.
Estradiol is fucking magical.
As someone who recently came out, I was kinda hoping that this would be here. It is a pretty wild thought
So what kind of game are you making?
Why the fuck do you have so many kids?
That I'm not disappointed in him.
I sat here for 10 minutes trying to think of an answer. I genuinely have nothing. I was pretty depressed as a 10 year old so honestly? Probably that I'm still alive. My life being a mess and hating near everything in it? I always thought that was going to happen.
Happy to have you still here.
Maybe that I went into a blue collar profession, but that I make such obscene money doing it.
i live in a different country and most of the day i speak a different language
How amazing computer games look now.
I mean, I'm impressed now, on behalf of ten year old me I suppose.
Very little, I basically achieved everything 10 year old me wanted (own a house, work with my dad, have a house husband, own a car - I was a really boring 10 year old).
Are you hiring a second house husband? We can do house stuff then play xbox.
But that's awesome! Having simpler dreams means you can actually achieve them! That's so much better than having dreams of stardom that results in disappointment and wasted life opportunities for 99.99999% of those people.
And also, your dreams sound like very meaningful things that make a great life!
"What do you mean you're happy with getting socks for Christmas?!"
Never thought I’d spend as much on the wool socks I have… yet here I am.
I mean thats like what. fourth or fifth grade. I can't even relate to who that was. flashes of memory at best. got a little more coherent ones from junior high but even high school and college are a blur.
That I never did Something Great™ with my life.
Didn't become a rock star, didn't cure cancer, didn't invent a world changing technology, didn't become a famous artist, etc.
I didn't know specifically what I was aiming to do, but for some reason I assumed that i would do something that made a big impact on the world. I was totally convinced of it. And it's not because my parents constantly told me that or anything. The closest i heard was a lot of "you have so much potential if you'd only apply yourself!" Ugh.
Do you have kids or a partner?
Because that made a significant impact on their world.
i didnt hear no bell
Maybe at your age. At my age almost all of the Something Great bells have rung. Don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of very meaningful things i can accomplish, and many important impacts i can make on individual people's lives, - but for me the possibility of doing something that has a broader impact on society is pretty much gone. But so what, the impact i can have on individual people's lives is still very valuable, and my own subjective experience of life is just as important as anyone else's! So i try to make my own experience of living as good as it can be!
How old are you? Ball park.
Old enough to have a significant amount of gray hairs, but not so old that it's all gray
Ah, early 30's
That's one interpretation, but the description i gave includes a much larger range than that
That in pretty much every single sense of the word I'm an absolutely pathetic loser.
I didn't think I'd ever be anything special, but I also didn't think I'd be 38 and single for going on a decade, living in someone else's garage, working in a factory in a dead end position with no degree and not an ounce of self worth to even presume to choose a direction.
10 year old me couldn't wait to be an adult, but after seeing me I think 10 year old me would never want to grow up knowing what I'd eventually become lol
10 year old would probably be proud you have a job, no responsibilities and can stay up on the Xbox or whatever all night.
Hey dude, I don’t know you and I don’t know anything about you. I do know that everyone, even people you would never expect, have value. You are amazing just for being you. If you find things you enjoy, do those things. 10 year old you may be prouder of you than you think, even if it’s because of how you have kept on going when things have gotten tough. I hope you feel that.
I appreciate the kind words! Empathy is proving to be increasingly more rare in society so I appreciate you wanting to express that.
Tossup between "You didn't join the military?" and "Why the hell do you want to sleep so much! You're an adult! You could be up at midnight!"
"You look just like dad. And that's very disappointing."
65" 8K television.
75", only 4k.
are you a transformer?
Maybe...
I touched boobies.
Coolest dude ever.
Well I did write down that I was going to win a billion money and move to the moon. I have much less faith in gambling now though.
Thank jeebus you didn't have to get married to the type of men in the community/cult we grew up in and pop out babies.
The fact that I work with IT with a niche skill set that is highly sought after in my industry. I was 10 in 1993, and at that point I didn't even know how to turn on a computer.
What I did use a lot, on the other hand, was my NES. And 10 year old me would probably make a jaw drop induced crater upon seeing the kind of games I can play nowadays. Hell, by brand new laptop is fancy on its own.
I went into nursing instead of astrophysics. Decided I wanted a job that would outlast the apocalypse.
That I stopped playing Zelda AND Pokémon
dude, youre still alive? congrats
That I'm an atheist, probably. Living on the opposite side of the world is a close second.
My dick didn't grow.
