What would your 16 year old self think

[ChandelierSail]

About how your life has turned out?

Would she/he be disappointed or pleased?

I haven't achieved everything I wanted to but I've nearly got there so all in all I think my 16 year old self would be pleased.

What about you?

I think 16 year old me would be surprised that i have a dp a mortgage a child and a normal job!

Id probably think i was really boring actually! But pleased about general success / comfortable life

Shed be very very shocked!!! Playing by the rules & being a lot more level headed that's for sure

She’d be pleased that I was still as feisty and independent as I was then (even with a husband and children) but disappointed that I looked quite frumpy.

She'd be disappointed in my house, money and career, baffled by the number of children (I wasn't going to have any!) and disappointed in my sex life (what sex life?!) but impressed by the partying I did in the middle. She'd think my dress sense was beyond dull, my music taste was middle of the road and my hair was a boring colour, but she would be impressed by my tattoos and the number of places I've lived. She would like my book collection and be intrigued by my poetry, cooking ability and sense of humour. She'd be disappointed in my friendship group because it's all women and I don't think she would understand why and how that happened. Back then she was one of "the lads." She was also a pretentious image obsessed jerk. I think I'd have struggled not to slap her, tbh.

I think she'd be bemused at where my career led, as when looking at where I started out to where I've ended up, it's bizarre.
Shed be at my salary and delighted she didn't need to retake her A levels to achieve it.
Shed also wonder why theres not more children around, as let's face it, kids are easy eh?

Disappointed

She'd be annoyed that I didn't marry Matt Goss or Jason Donovan

Loving this thread! I’m going through a phase of feeling very sad and regretful and thinking what 16-year-old me would actually think of my life now is reminding me of just how far I’ve come. So, she’d be amazed it actually got to be OK in the end. She’d be impressed I made it to uni’ and got an education. She’d be unsurprised I never had children, or that I’m married to an older man. She’d be nonplussed at what I do for a living but sort of impressed too. She’d think I’m a bit posh. She’d be very disappointed that I still haven’t published any of my writing. She’d be very sad I didn’t rebel ‘properly’ and have a few wild adventures when I was young. She’d like my clothes but find my DM habit a bit strange considering she tottered around in very high heels! She’d be surprised I had lost weight. Most of all: I do wish I could get in the Tardis, go back and tell her it really would get better one day.

my 16yo would be very surprised. and in some ways disappointed, not by what I do, my life etc... but because there has been many more hardships than she expected from life!

The area im working in is completely different than what I thought I was going to do (I was VERY keen on a specific subject at that time)
Im living in a country I had never considered living in

Im also ill and in some way disabled, stuck in. relationship that doesnt quite work for me....

But I think the 16yo me would be proud of what I have done personally and how I have found my way amongst and despite everything.

She would be disappointed in how my career has panned out this far, shocked at how normal and boring I am and horrified by how much weight I’ve put on!

16 yr old me was going to live in New York City and be a famous writer. Didn’t quite work out like that .

Mine would love the life I have led with travel and adventures but hate who I am now. But then I hate myself now so I wouldn't blame her. She would probably tell me to snap out of it as she didn't understand MH issues

She would be really, really, really disappointed.

I think 16 year old me would be shocked at how my life turned out, but also made up that this year I'm finally getting myself back and doing something that 16 year old me would have loved to do, all by myself :)