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Originally Posted by SimpleRick
I'm a level beyond you guys cringing at yourselves. Why cringe? If everyone here is assuming it's normal to be a bit cringey at 20 or whatever why not just accept that? I don't cringe looking back at myself at 20. I just look at it as a normal growing period. But then again I wasn't tweeting cringey selfies and bs motivational stuff when I was that age.
It's both. One can both wince when thinking about things they did 10 years ago and also appreciate the value of it in terms of personal growth.
I kept a journal from my senior year in high school to about 24 years old. Probably tucked away on an old PowerBook in a closet. If I good fire that thing up now, I'm sure I'd react with a "WTF, I used to think
that???" My old newspaper column is readily available to me. A couple of them hold up pretty well, most of them are neither here nor there, but a few offer a glimpse into who I was at the time and it's both cringey and hilarious. But it still gets chalked up to "well, I was X age at the time."
As for the BS motivational stuff, who knows how long he'll keep doing that. I have friends heading into their 40s who still do it all over Facebook and Instagram. The ones who do it based on fitness/exercise are fine – in fact, sometimes it's an ass-kicker to get others to the gym. But some of them are just Stuart Smalley-ish self-affirmation stuff.
At one point, I couldn't help myself: