Things You Wish You Could Tell Your Younger Self

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DuckieLady

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Hindsight is 20/20.

Mine...

1. You cannot put a whole egg in the microwave and expect it to come out boiled egg. It will explode.
2. Boiling the pot on the stove for over an hour to get out the burned stuff on the bottom will not fix it. It will melt the pot into the stove.
3. Cover up. It's off-putting.
4. Never let a 17-year-old perm your hair. It will fall out.
5. Don't let grandma go to the church Christmas dinner wearing festive Santa velvet baby doll "nightwear" over her outfit because you think it's funny. She will get upset after.
 

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Here Diana, read this list book.
Haha! :D

A more serious one I would tell myself, is to not allow myself to be a person of convenience. Not to be a person where someone just comes around when it's convenient for them to pop up after weeks, but to have relationships in my life where they make an effort.

I would have also told myself to let myself put people in their place more often in a kind and graceful way. Don't be afraid to stand your ground.

Set standards and expectations. Set a bar. Not just for others, but for yourself. Be dignified and carry some manner of grace. Don't be seen as weak and naive, there are people in low places in life that will pick up on that and take advantage of you for it.

The most important thing I would have warned myself about is that the most people who are charismatic and overly friendly at first can also tend to be the most dangerous and narcissistic later.
 

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Also nobody ever told me that you're supposed to let the washer run empty with white vinegar to clean it every once in a while...

You're not actually supposed to open the bobby pins or they'll all end up useless and bent metal. Keep them closed and push them in with the ridges on the bottom.

The best grilled cheese sandwiches are made in a waffle iron.
 

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I would tell myself go ahead and just do whatever you want you are going to anyway. You'll find out later what happens. It is far away from awful and a long way from being embodied by darkness.
 

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It's okay to admit that Shakespeare is boring if you'd rather read fairy tales.

Shakespeare is boring.

I like Hans Christian Anderson.
He's not boring and it's not in the form of a play.
I do not have that many people in my head to play out that many characters.
 

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Haha! :D

A more serious one I would tell myself, is to not allow myself to be a person of convenience. Not to be a person where someone just comes around when it's convenient for them to pop up after weeks, but to have relationships in my life where they make an effort.

Hello Flufflyyellowduck, your topic help conjure up some thoughts in my head.

That is something on the subjective of relationships I believe is important when it comes to being with someone; that is important to communicate between each other, and openly communicate about different and all types of subjects, and to be open and honest about how they see and perceive things even from their own view points, and to be understanding with each other even though there might be a few times of disagreements; however it is okay to disagree but for it to get to the point of out of hand and bad things start happening that is far away from a healthy relationship in my perception.

I would have also told myself to let myself put people in their place more often in a kind and graceful way. Don't be afraid to stand your ground.

My thoughts on these things, same consideration of being more kind, and gentle to people, yet firm and regardless they may need to get over it if the answer is no, and continue onward to what it is you are doing that day, or whatever, talk about a different subject, until it comes up again next time or whatever.

Set standards and expectations. Set a bar. Not just for others, but for yourself. Be dignified and carry some manner of grace. Don't be seen as weak and naive, there are people in low places in life that will pick up on that and take advantage of you for it.

My thoughts on standards and expectations are that mine are very low and almost unexpectant. I do not expect anything from anyone; in daily life can by the spirit of Christ admit to have the ability to talk to anyone who ever is desired to be talk to and freely ask them any question in the entire world and see what their answer, and response is. The standard set for myself I guess is just to continue to believe and trust in God and the Lord Jesus Christ because there is no one else like them in this life. ~ Though are to Love God and to Love Others is the only requirement of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ who came, died, was buried, and resurrected back to life by God.

The most important thing I would have warned myself about is that the most people who are charismatic and overly friendly at first can also tend to be the most dangerous and narcissistic later.

It is true: I have been in the situation of mentally abusing a woman that was with me about 6 years ago, and was very mean, and demeaning to her, and it took years for me to finally be set free of my sins that plagued my heart in life. That involved Hatred, Lust, Greed, Jealousy, Lying and manipulating others, and unforgiving, and unmerciful, unthoughtful, unkind, that Lord Jesus Christ has changed all of those things because of his love and forgiveness. Praise be to God.
 
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It is true: I have been in the situation of mentally abusing a woman that was with me about 6 years ago, and was very mean, and demeaning to her, and it took years for me to finally be set free of my sins that plagued my heart in life. That involved Hatred, Lust, Greed, Jealousy, Lying and manipulating others, and unforgiving, and unmerciful, unthoughtful, unkind, that Lord Jesus Christ has changed all of those things because of his love and forgiveness. Praise be to God.
That's a thing that takes courage to admit.

Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation, and it takes a long time to develop into the new person, I think. It is not always immediate and it wasn't for me. If I wasn't so broken and alone, I think it would have been sooner, but turned around better for having only Jesus to rely on- and he was 100% the only one. It seems to me like God has taken care of you and turned you around to be used for his good!
 
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I would tell myself to go to church and counseling, and not to listen to the counselors all that much, just enough cause while they have some good advice, some of it leads me astray.
 
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That's a thing that takes courage to admit. Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation, and it takes a long time to develop into the new person, I think. It is not always immediate and it wasn't for me.

You are right, a born-again believer is a new creation by and through Christ Jesus whom live by the holy spirit/spirit of Christ by and through the grace of God by and through faith in which a person must choose for themselves if they will decide to believe. You are right about how it takes a long time to develop by and through sanctification of the Holy spirit which is found in Romans 15: which has to do with the renewing of the heart and mind by God with the use of the Christian scriptures that are found in the bible.

Have you very entailing experience to share about your experience of being renewed by Christ, and many experiences that could be talked about?

If I wasn't so broken and alone, I think it would have been sooner, but turned around better for having only Jesus to rely on- and he was 100% the only one.
Well, me too but it is okay. Stay close to your husband Christ Jesus, and continue to believe and have faith.

It seems to me like God has taken care of you and turned you around to be used for his good!

As long it is for His Good, and not my good because my good is no good and does not compare to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and what he was capable of doing for the entire planet. Paying for the entire populations sin, one time once and for all on the cross. Then God had resurrected Jesus Christ back to life.
 
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I would tell myself to go to church and counseling, and not to listen to the counselors all that much, just enough cause while they have some good advice, some of it leads me astray.

Devin what is some of the worst advice you have been told by someone else?
 

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Devin what is some of the worst advice you have been told by someone else?
"Things you hate in others are a reflection of yourself." As if I hate myself. Counseling trick it is and not helpful and somewhat damaging.

What I instead found out is that we tend to get frustrated and even angry to see behaviors in others that we have grown past in ourselves.
 

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"Things you hate in others are a reflection of yourself." As if I hate myself. Counseling trick it is and not helpful and somewhat damaging.

Things you hate in others
are a reflection of yourself. : Thinking of the words / I see someone talking to their mother, and they are out on a park benching eating together beneath some trees. And I am watching and observing them, eating, talking, and laughing together spending time with them, and I hate them for it red flag situation. That would be something dangerous. If I am placing it all together correctly, and am not sure.

What I instead found out is that we tend to get frustrated and even angry to see behaviors in others that we have grown past in ourselves.

What do you mean what type of behaviors do you mean? Would you give an example?
 
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What do you mean what type of behaviors do you mean? Would you give an example?
A perfect example of this is that I hate when people try to fix me and get the situation all wrong and are super NOT helpful and even damaging, then perhaps I'll be suffering somehow by ridicule or some other way for not taking their advice.

I have family like that. And I hate when people give medical advice and have no idea what they're talking about. Really hurtful.

And I hate when people don't stay objective about a situation and assume way too much and come up with some false/paranoid belief about me or others or some situation. People should be taking a scientific approach to understanding situations and others, relying on factual information and keeping open to changing their ideas based on facts and evidence.
 
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A perfect example of this is that I hate when people try to fix me and get the situation all wrong and are super NOT helpful and even damaging, then perhaps I'll be suffering somehow by ridicule or some other way for not taking their advice.

From my perception: Something that bothers you a lot is when someone assumes and inserts something into what you have been saying in which they have not listened to you and completely missed your entire point and they still continue nag at you even after you trying to be explicitly clear with the other person? That can be hurtful, not even helpful, and later on you might be feeling of ridicule if someone and what they may think about you personally because you did not decide to listen to them or take their advice ?

I have family like that. And I hate when people give medical advice and have no idea what they're talking about. Really hurtful.
Imaging dealing with your family sometimes is hard, and that their are is a lot to this in your own life that you only would know about, and am sorry for your suffering but would like to encourage you.

2 Corinthians 1: 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.​

Romans 8:38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.​

2 Corinthians 12:3 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.​


And I hate when people don't stay objective about a situation and assume way too much and come up with some false/paranoid belief about me or others or some situation.

From my perception: What bothers you is when you are being straight forward and objective to the truth about situations they go on off unto assuming other things rather than staying close to the practical concept of whatever is being really going on that may/ require some discernment possibly to really be able to see that type of the heart of the matter.

People should be taking a scientific approach to understanding situations and others, relying on factual information and keeping open to changing their ideas based on facts and evidence.

Would agree, with you thank you for sharing.
 
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1. A womans tears are not reliable
2. A mans tears are not a sign of weakness

Very interesting QT, why are a womans tears no realiable, and a mans tears not a sign of weakness?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

You are right about that.

You all have a good rest of the evening! Take care.