What do you wish you knew when you were younger…

that you know now?

(Rodney singing “Ooh La La” is on the radio…)

I wasn’t as unappealing to the opposite sex as I thought.

Almost any exam can be passed with a bit of studying. Almost any exam can be failed by not studying.

People who look and sound as if they are correct often are not.

The people who tell you recreational drugs are “bad” are those who have never taken them and talking out of that excessively tense hole between their ass cheeks.

Everything your mother does is for your benefit.

People make mistakes. Often.

Stuff you read on the internet may not always be correct 😉

That the more money you earn,the more corrupt youre likely to be, and be able to get away with it.

the cost of tattoos will keep going up, even in a recession or two.

exercise can be fun and it benefits both the mind and body

All Tories are approximately 10 times as evil as they first appear. Never trust a single solitary one of them. EVER!

That everybody’s just winging it.

Never marry a woman.

To have got a trade earlier rather than speed years in university to find I am happiest spending my day using my hands and fixing things.

How easy it would have been to jack in school and travel the world

That I didn’t have to do what my parents told me.

Not to listen to people who said I had a crap job (It was. But I liked it)

That I should have bought a motorbike a lot earlier

That bikes, ANY bikes make me happy, and time without one was wasted time

When Sarah XXXXXX who you fancied like mad came over to go clubbing with you in Derby for the night for her birthday. And when your were sleeping on the floor when you let her sleep in your bed and she said you could sleep in the bed with her, that perhaps you should have tried it on!!

That everybody’s just winging it.

This.

Plus, people who commute on race bikers aren’t necessarily idiots.

That everybody’s just winging it.

So true…

It’s not worth getting angry about stuff you read in the papers about the injustice of it all

Students have zero political clout

That the running purple patch wasnt going to last so race now as every season after this one will be buggered by illness and injury 🙁

Raven haired wimmin will cause you to lose your mind.

Shimano will cease production of Deore XT Thumbshifters – make sure you stock up!

Another vote for everyone winging it!

That the jelly bean jar theory was ABSOLUTELY TRUE 👿

What I wanted to do with my life.

that you know now?
Ah, but not that bit.

That my girlfriend won’t always be this ‘openminded’ and a polaroid camera will be a good investment.

Students people under the age of 60 have zero political clout

FTFY 😀

On a serious note…that a year flies by and that getting out of Uni and getting a job could wait a few years while you bum around the world doing the shit you’ll never have time to do later.

EDIT: I’d have moved to Manchester. Imagine the friends I’d have now. 🙂

Think about what you enjoy/are good at doing and do that, not what other people tell you is a good thing to do.

Drinking isn’t actually that good.

Don’t settle for rubbish due to being scared of change.

calculus…

Don’t settle for rubbish due to being scared of change.

Are you divorced?

🙂

Sugar makes you depressed.

a load of winning lottery numbers, and where Cheryl Cole lived

That the jelly bean jar theory was ABSOLUTELY TRUE

Just googled that. Now I’m sad.

Although thinking about it it could just mean you have an absolutely knackering, but brilliant, first year.

C and its variants, or possibly Visuall Basic, would have been a better choice of programming language to specialise in than PICK DataBasic with SB+

Sow the seeds early.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-would-you-tell-your-15-year-old-self

Joanne
Carly
Sarah
Hannah
Nicola
Nicola
Zoe
Ginny
Jenny
Julie

all would have. Just MTFU.

Oh, and get a trade.

C and its variants, or possibly Visuall Basic, would have been a better choice of programming language to specialise in than PICK DataBasic with SB+

That’s exactly what I wasn’t thinking.

The Jelly Bean theory, is that exclusive to your wife?

I wasn’t as unappealing to the opposite sex as I thought.

this

and the bit about bikes make me happy

Most people are greedy if given the chance.

With greed they turn nasty backstabbers at work.

There are very few genuinely good hearted people around.

I learn that political correctness and spin is very much the creation of greed.

Most people are greedy if given the chance.

With greed they turn nasty backstabbers at work.

There are very few genuinely good hearted people around.

I learn that political correctness and spin is very much the creation of greed.

Wow.

🙁

Wow.

You’re a lawyer – surely this can’t be news to you? 😉

Specifically It would have been –

Learned to snowboard earlier
Spent more money on a better bike earlier
Do the BUNAC Canada thing
Scrap Vicky for a girl you have some chance of making happy.
Live in the city, and don’t have a Garden.

Generally

Don’t tear the a**e out of it
Be excellent to one another.

That people are actually pretty good, really. That no matter how shocking you think people might find things about you, generally they just learn to accept and deal with it in their own little way.

That the longer you fret over a massive decision, the less time you have to reap the reward of having made it.

That Nicolai make some fab bikes.

Rachel