Immaturity and hindsight

[Ika]

Do you ever look back at videos, audio, or a chat conversation of yourself and realize that you sound really immature? It's weird, but whenever I see some of my past chat conversations with people I feel really stupid that I used to sound so immature. The strange thing is, last year, I had the same epiphany. Earlier today, I looked at a conversation from January of this year and thought "wow, I was an idiot".

Thoughts?

 

[Amused]

If you start drinking heavily, the regret doesn't hurt so bad.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Amused
If you start drinking heavily, the regret doesn't hurt so bad.

underage. very much so, in fact. but it's not regret, it's just... I don't know, hindsight? ponderings of my past self?

 

[DaShen]

It happens to all of us. It is called growing up.
Some people were forced at a young age to grow up quicker though, and it happens to them more infrequently.
Other never grew up, and then later are forced and see the folly of their ways.

If I was able to see myself when I was in early High School, I would have a real long talk with myself (maybe even knock some sense into myself)

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: Amused
If you start drinking heavily, the regret doesn't hurt so bad.

:beer:

 

[KarenMarie]

I was a grown adult with a kid when I first got internet... back in like 1993 or 94, so I really did not do anything too immature.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: DaShen
It happens to all of us. It is called growing up.
Some people were forced at a young age to grow up quicker though, and it happens to them more infrequently.
Other never grew up, and then later are forced and see the folly of their ways.

If I was able to see myself when I was in early High School, I would have a real long talk with myself (maybe even knock some sense into myself)

Yes, but is it a constant process? From memory I don't think I've changed much from last year, except for maybe forum conduct and the ideas that I've absorbed from ATOT (not good...).

I suppose you're right, though. I probably sound like an idiot right now.

 

[Fritzo]

Yep. Even stuff that happened just 5 years ago, I think "Wow...I really would have handled that better now".

 

[potato28]

Pfft if you have that much time to think about the past then u need something to do.

 

[Jeff7]

All the time. It doesn't matter when I've written it. It could have been a few minutes ago. My solution: I just stop reading anything I've written.
Revising papers in my college history class was difficult, because 1) I had never really done it before, and 2) I kept finding things I didn't like, so at some point I just had to decide that I'd invested/wasted enough time revising/rewriting the assignment, and just call it finished.

 

[sandorski]

Over half a lifetime ago my best friend had this comeback he used for appropriate situations: "Ya, that was last week, when I was young and stupid"

Always chuckled about it, but they are wise words.