You get sent back to age 15

I wouldn't date, I would work asap and save every cent to leave home. Teen years were ugly, and all the other kids were idoits. I got teased because I had no desire to hang out with the popular kids and was so mch smarter then they were. I skipped 2 grdes and graduated at 16. I immediately left home.
 

I'm probably overthinking this but if I woke up tomorrow at the age of 15 during the same time period I was actually 15 with all my current memories intact, the first thing I would do is to try to find a way to erase those memories. I would not be able to deal with being around my parents knowing how and when they would die. Same with friends who have passed during my lifetime.


If I woke up tomorrow morning and discover that I am 15 again and it was present time, I think the first thing I would do is call my older sister and ask her for a ride to a place I have to be at by 9 am. Legally, I would not be able to drive myself there. I'm sure my sister and I would have an interesting conversation on the way to where I have to be.
 
Jazzy1 said:
You get sent back to age 15 along with all your current memories. What’s the first thing you do differently?
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Make better choices? At 15 theres not much else you can do to change your fate.
I already got good grades and I went to college on a full scholarship.
You could change you I suppose but you would still be surrounded by the same azzhats.

Knowing what I know now I probably would be a lot more confident. And I would have avoided certain people.
Most big changes would be after graduation.
 
Jazzy1 said:
You get sent back to age 15 along with all your current memories. What’s the first thing you do differently?
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Wow. Parents had separated in 1970. Moved to middle of nowhere with Father & woman who broke up the family. Total Shock. No option to stay with other relatives. Mom had bailed. Didn't see or hear from her for a few years. Don't blame her at all. Lost her in 2023 at age 96. She was still bitter about Fathers Infidelity & the good Life we had...
 
Bretrick said:
Never walk into a pub, thus enabling me to make up my own mind as to a career, maybe an art degree, graphic design to tap into my creative side which was always there but never allowed to see the light of day through destructive alcohol abuse.
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At fifteen I probably experimented with smoking, I do remember smoking at eighteen when I started college, mercifully the lady who would become my wife, gave me all the encouragement to quit and when we married I did just that.

Betrick struck a chord with alcohol, it is destructive, thankfully I quit that too, long ago. What would I do if I went back to 15? Campaign to end the romantic adverts on both nicotine and alcohol.
 
Jazzy1 said:
You get sent back to age 15 along with all your current memories. What’s the first thing you do differently?
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I would make one change and preserve the relationship with my first love. That would mean changing everything that followed a lot. In fact, a whole different life. But I'd do it.
 
I like many have no desire to go back to being 15. But if that were possible and I had no choice- I would do all I could to keep my nephew and a son in-law from suicide- I would have tried to help my brother with his addiction so he would not hurt those he left behind.
I would have made learning a priority and become a close friend of Warren Buffet.
 
I enjoyed being 15 so damned much and I loved the rest of my teens as well. It's part of my life that remains a stand out of good memories. If I went back and changed and tried to do things that would have made me more successful, I wouldn't be me and I wouldn't be as happy.

I'm in the camp that would leave my past life alone because it was great. I wish everyone here could have had the same as I did.
 
I would slow down and avoid the accident I had with an old farmer parked on the wrong side of the road, down in Texas Hill Country. Coming over that hill at 70, didn't give me time to swerve far enough to avoid the old drunk. It was the first and last time I lied to my folks. I told them I was going to a school function and it was a private party. No one was hurt in the accident, but it still hurts me mentally when I think about it.
 
At 15 I was eat up playing HS sports. And fell in love. It was a great time. I liked school but didn't try hard. I would not have started smoking pot my senior year. I would have worked on my defense in basketball more. I would have dated much more. And bought Walmart stock with every extra penny I had. I may have gone away to college instead of staying near home. Knowing the future at 15 would have been wild.
 
At 15 I was out of control, I am ashamed of the person I was, even when I tried to be good I measured that with a twisted morality. Looking at the 15 year old me thru my senior eyes it's obvious I was headed for disaster.

I would focus on being a better person in a thousand different ways.
 
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