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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thankfully no Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. 
I feel for the young & foolish now—no hiding or chance to grow from past youthful stupidity[/quote]

I think about that ever d*mn day. I am so grateful we didn't have social media when I was young and brash.

I did so many reckless things when I was young. I am grateful, all the time, to have survived it. The things I have serious regrets about are more like, I blew every penny I had going traveling instead of paying down debt or saving for retirement; I stayed with terrible men for much too long and it gave me some pretty deep emotional scars. I was so entitled that even when I had the most incredible opportunities, I blew them off because I wasn't in the mood and I figured something else just as good would come along.

I knock wood a million times over that I've turned out as stable and content as I have, now in my late 40s. It certainly did not have to turn out that way.

I don't regret the sleeping around, though. That was fun and, in the end, I think turned out to be pretty harmless.

I hope you can forgive yourself, OP. Maybe try writing this down into an essay, or talk to a therapist, and see why these things from decades ago are haunting you now?[/quote]

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