What's something you wish someone would have told you about life?

[ThatFraggle]

If you could go back in time with that knowledge, what would the knowledge be?

Kiss a few frogs before finding your Prince.

Learn to laugh at yourself.

Wear the shorts.

Don’t write off all potential partners who seem nice and pick the most challenging choice of all. It won’t be so romantic 19 years down the line.

Recognise that some people who should have your back don't and move on. It's fine to put yourself first - you're not just a bit-part player in other people's lives. Focus on school and ditch the crap jobs or you risk being stuck in them forever. Self-sabotage isn't morally superior to aspiration and high achievement. Go away to uni - you'll be fine. Get a professional qual or trade as well as a degree. Don't be a passenger in life. It's ok to want to be happy. Learn to swim before you hit 40, it'll be so much easier.

Get a trade or a skill if you can’t go to uni. Don’t just bumble from menial job to menial job.

Get a mortgage asap and stay on one. One day it will be too late to have another and you’ll be left with nothing.

Tell your dad before he dies that his wife is going to steal all his money and leave his only child with nothing.

Sitting here as an osteoporosis sufferer with a broken leg, not knowing if I will ever get full use of my leg again, I would say take HRT!

Life can and will be much, much better without drinking alcohol.

Some people can do it in moderation. If you can't, don't bloody kid yourself. Many of your problems can be traced back to this alone, or are at least made worse by it. Go to AA.

That just because someone is related to you, it doesn't compel them to be nice. In fact they can be nasty, narcissistic, heartless, abusive cunts, without a care for anyone but themselves.

In the same vein, all because you're related, you should not feel compelled to be nice to them. Or even have any kind of relationship at all.

I'd spent my whole life desperate for my male parent's love and acceptance; sadly I just received abuse of all kinds, and made to feel worthless.

When I finally cut all contact at 49 I finally felt free of the abuse and judgment. I'll forever be damaged, but finally realised the blood connection did not oblige me to maintain a relationship with him. Ironically, I'd spent my whole life feeling worthless because of him; I finally found that worth when I stopped listening and walked away.

I second this! 💕

I’m a nineties girl, so - stop plucking your eyebrows. You’ll spend your forties drawing them back in again!