Things You Wish You Could Tell Your Younger Self
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I had undiagnosed (unknown at the time) ADHD. Being a boy in the 60s, they tried to beat it out of me. No wonder I rebelled.
April_Rose
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I never met my step brother (from mother's prior marriage there was confusion about who my father was until I was about a year old) until I was in my 20s. I was so excited to call him because I always wanted an older brother. I found him on MySpace and we were both so excited..
What I didn't know was he was a kid, he had suffered from medical toxicity from changes in ADHD medication. He was playing in the yard and passed out. It left him permanently brain damaged. So when he called me his voice was incredibly high and his speech was so destroyed we couldn't communicate. I was absolutely distressed and his mind was so warped that he was getting weird towards me, so I eventually had to break contact.
I can't use that word either, so when people have asked about him in the past, I have frozen not knowing how to explain it.
I never met my step brother (from mother's prior marriage there was confusion about who my father was until I was about a year old) until I was in my 20s. I was so excited to call him because I always wanted an older brother. I found him on MySpace and we were both so excited..
What I didn't know was he was a kid, he had suffered from medical toxicity from changes in ADHD medication. He was playing in the yard and passed out. It left him permanently brain damaged. So when he called me his voice was incredibly high and his speech was so destroyed we couldn't communicate. I was absolutely distressed and his mind was so warped that he was getting weird towards me, so I eventually had to break contact.
I can't use that word either, so when people have asked about him in the past, I have frozen not knowing how to explain it.
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April_Rose
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It's okay, just letting you know, I get it.Oh, well I'm sorry to hear that.
What a crazy creation we are (sin-caused), what a crazy life we live, what a crazy world we live in, what a crazy reality we live in. Jesus is our sanity. Everyone else has denial. Bless you guys. Back on topic. I'd tell myself to read the bible.
I like that you were able to share that.
I would go back and tell myself to read the gospel parts and not just fantasizing in Songs of Solomon and looking through Proverbs.
I bet if I could go back and say "Read the book of Luke" things would have been radically different.
Hidden In Him
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I suppose I should clarify concerning my "retard" meme that she actually turned out to be pretty decent for someone else. She was just total malaria for me. But maybe it's from colossally bad decisions that we all learn to have more sympathy for the mentally challenged. Scripture says He is the Only Wise God, and I no longer put trust in the intelligence of men, including my own.
To add to that I wish someone told me and much of my family, "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."
I had a Christian upbringing and education, and one of the greatest risks for kids who "grew up Christian" is taking on the label without being trained to develop a relationship themselves, or there being a falling away in the family.
My parents were good for the most part, after I turned nine, things started to change. My stepfather (died a couple years ago) was abusive towards my mother. I grew up around a lot of drugs (it was the 90s) and a lot of alcoholism. There was lot of perversion coming from other members of my family towards myself and others. I was passed around a lot from this place to the next.
I never wanted to touch drugs, fortunately, because I had seen so many manic episodes from other family members (not parents) on whatever the thing with needles is.
I had to leave home early, about 16, to protect me from a family member, and somewhere along that line, I started looking for love from the example of everything love is not.
But I wish people taught me how to pray. I wish that I understood that with Christ there was a relationship and it wasn't just something we said or just something we did because it was the right thing, and that was it.
The Bible says that God is a father to the fatherless and he stepped in for me like a father would, and raised me up himself and started developing me in the way that he wanted and plucked me out from my family. So he cared for me and basically re-raised me. He took care of my parents and loved them in the same way.
I guess that's my testimony @MatthewG, I guess I didn't answer yet because there was a whole other side I hadn't really paid attention to.
I had a Christian upbringing and education, and one of the greatest risks for kids who "grew up Christian" is taking on the label without being trained to develop a relationship themselves, or there being a falling away in the family.
My parents were good for the most part, after I turned nine, things started to change. My stepfather (died a couple years ago) was abusive towards my mother. I grew up around a lot of drugs (it was the 90s) and a lot of alcoholism. There was lot of perversion coming from other members of my family towards myself and others. I was passed around a lot from this place to the next.
I never wanted to touch drugs, fortunately, because I had seen so many manic episodes from other family members (not parents) on whatever the thing with needles is.
I had to leave home early, about 16, to protect me from a family member, and somewhere along that line, I started looking for love from the example of everything love is not.
But I wish people taught me how to pray. I wish that I understood that with Christ there was a relationship and it wasn't just something we said or just something we did because it was the right thing, and that was it.
The Bible says that God is a father to the fatherless and he stepped in for me like a father would, and raised me up himself and started developing me in the way that he wanted and plucked me out from my family. So he cared for me and basically re-raised me. He took care of my parents and loved them in the same way.
I guess that's my testimony @MatthewG, I guess I didn't answer yet because there was a whole other side I hadn't really paid attention to.
The first time I heard the message of salvation (John 3:16), I believed it. I was 14. Unfortunately, there was no one in my life to help me grow. We had Christian Reformed neighbors, but my dad said they were nosy and didn't like us kids being too involved with their kids. As far as spirituality went, I knew they couldn't play cards, or ride their bikes or skip on Sundays. I thought their wooden shoes were pretty neat.
Wrangler
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- SPIRITUALITY: Read the Bible for yourself before deciding.
- INVESTMENTS: In the '60's the one word was plastics ... the one word I'd tell my younger self is computers.
- CAREER: Pursue social studies rather than math & science.
- INNER PEACE & RELATIONSHIPS: Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. That is, don't try so hard.
- RELATIONSHIPS: When a woman wants you to change the way you wear jewelry/dress, run, don't walk away.
The number one thing I would've told myself would've been to not use drugs. But I started in 1971 and I had 3 older siblings who I thought were the coolest people in the world. I started listening to The Beatles in 1963. Sgt. Peppers quickly became my favorite album. I got involved in seances and the Ouija board by the age of five and was getting stoned and drunk by 12. Jesus has definitely saved me; I can take no credit for it.
Hidden In Him
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LoL!
Was thinking about what everyone said in this thread, and a song came to mind I was into many years ago. I think in the end it's about knowing who we were created to be, and not letting the world steal that from us but returning to the child He made us.
Mentally-Stimulating Music
Mantis
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1.) God is real!
2.) your actions have consequences
3.) it is better to dwell in a desert land than to live with a contentious and vexing woman.
2.) your actions have consequences
3.) it is better to dwell in a desert land than to live with a contentious and vexing woman.
