I would tell him to give up any hope of getting her back–you’re in for the worst year of your entire life if you string yourself out falling for her BS headgames, holding out hope that you might salvage something not worth saving.
Cristina. Joanne. Marjan. Mansi. Sharon. Debbie. You’ve got a genuine shot with all of them, if you get off your duff and make the most of what little time you have left in college.
So what are you waiting for? Go go go go go go go!
Did you really need someone from the future to tell you that? This is going to be a lot harder than we thought…
If I could talk to my 21-year-old self? I’d grab his ass by the collar and scream into his face:
“Don’t change a Goddamned fucking thing! Wear sunscreen. Drink and drive once, and feel bad about it. Buy the rifle. Meet Jill. Just don’t change a fucking thing. You are doing fine! All the good times, all the bad times, the roller coasters of love, the depression of drinking too much, the success of college and a commission, the challenges ahead of you and how you MacGuyver your way through them–don’t change a fucking thing! It’s all worth it. The good, the bad, the ugly. Trust me. I’m older than you. I know. . .”
Believe me, the past six years of my life have been one hell of a melodrama, and then next month or so may seem to cap the most sorrowful of them. :sad: But, it was a path that was laid before me, and I made the choices on which direction to go. That being said, I value the chance to make those choices over anything in this world.
Tripler
And I think I’m better for making some of them, too . . .
well, lessee…
you’re going to rock your painting final, but do that damn reading so I can get down to writing my Lit. paper! Leave the Sherlock Holmes alone until break and get down to the John Carter of Mars. You know you want to sweetie!
(If you can’t tell, I just turned 22 and I am REALLY wishing my ass read these novels earlier- the paper’s due tomorrow! gotta go!)
oh, and-
going back to college is totally the right decision- make sure to follow up on the apartment lead mom’s gonna find- she’s the greatest roommate you could ever hope for- but make sure to make the apartment company change the locks as soon as yoyu move it- you’ll save her a ton of grief she never deserved…
I’ve been reading this thread since the beginning, and I think I’m with Tripler. There have certainly been moments in the past three and a half years that I’d have loved to been alerted to/given suggestion on, but how do you know which of those bad moments led or didn’t lead to the best ones?
I might have told my twenty-one year old self to transfer to an Ivy-League or high tier school, rather than staying local. But my twenty-one year old self chose to stay local, and two years later, I gave a speech and sang at Carnegie Hall, the first of many concerts there (and I’m on my way there in a few hours…)