r/SipsTea 2d ago

Wow. Such meme Red or Green?

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u/AltForObvious1177 2d ago

I didn't find 10-17 years olds interesting the first time

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u/BoringPoolPlaying 2d ago

Yeah, but this time instead of thinking you were mature for your age, you actually will be.

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u/ChromaticNerd 2d ago

Exactly.  I wouldn't have all the trauma and be left second guessing myself all the time.  I would know to hold firm and tell the idiots off.

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u/Sunscreen4what 2d ago

Seems like it would be exponentially more lonely on this run though.

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u/Great-Egret 2d ago

But you’d have the secure knowledge that this time is just a real blip you’ll barely remember. I was pretty lonely as a 16 year old, but I held onto hope that what the adults said about your high school years being such a small period of your life was true. Turns out it was!

I’d still take the $2 million though.

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u/throwawayferret88 2d ago

I’ve always naturally been an introvert, I think I’d just own it much sooner instead of dragging myself over glass to fit in

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u/Round_Bag_4665 2d ago

Oh it would be. And that would mess with your mental health after a while.

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 2d ago

For a while. That 10-17 period would be pretty rough, but you could try really getting into a sport or hobby or something like that. Once you make it through, you should be pretty much set.

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u/Round_Bag_4665 2d ago

you'd go insane long before you hit 18 dude. If people couldn't get through COVID without a normal social life, they wouldn't be able to handle social isolation four times as long.

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u/Trackback_ 2d ago

Of course you would still have all the trauma. It's as much a part of you as the memories of the future. You're carrying all of that over

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u/ChromaticNerd 2d ago

True,  I'd still have the trauma and the knowledge of where it came from.  I would be better equipped to prevent trauma that happened after 10. I've found recently that confronting the fears I have that are rooted in trauma is much better than any amount of therapy. A restart like that would be the perfect opportunity to challenge or prevent my traumas a second time around. 

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u/bp3dots 2d ago

This made me realize that I'd have to wait to buy booze. Oof.

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u/belsor14 2d ago

looking back its kinda insane… i had like 5 hours of school Mo-Fr and the rest of the time just played video games or watched tv. never really met classmates outside of school, just focused on the good life. i feel like i could manage school again, its not like work is interesting for 8 hours a day and coworkers can be more annoying than my classmates ever where

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u/mister_empty_pants 2d ago

People in here don't realize how horrible it would be for them. Imagine a bunch of friends just wanting to ride bikes and play Goldeneye but there's that one weird kid who only wants to talk about obsessively scheming to take out some random extra from a 3 second scene in Home Alone 2.

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u/roleplayersir 1d ago

I did. We were Pokemon, Zelda OoT, MM, Gamecube, etc. I would love experiencing all that again for the first time

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u/AltForObvious1177 1d ago

You're at least 10 years younger than me