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I'm seeing if I can work through this list of prompts through this first month of the new year.
The second prompt is:
If I could talk to my teenage self, the one thing I would say is…
The one thing I would talk to my teenage self about is finding a better balance between what felt possible to handle socially versus what didn't. Very honestly, I was a little overly confident in presenting myself as an equal partner with young adults online as a teenager in some ways that left lasting scars mentally, particularly in how that decision influenced my decisions "IRL" when I started attending public high school when I was fifteen.
There is a particular moment when I wish I had walked into an anime club meeting a few minutes late rather than running away and, instead, running into a person who would only serve to have a severely damaging impact on the past decade of my life. And I think that if I had a better-balanced idea of what I could withstand in terms of mild embarrassment versus being a little more comfortable in the moment in a way that was ultimately damaging.
The second prompt is:
If I could talk to my teenage self, the one thing I would say is…
The one thing I would talk to my teenage self about is finding a better balance between what felt possible to handle socially versus what didn't. Very honestly, I was a little overly confident in presenting myself as an equal partner with young adults online as a teenager in some ways that left lasting scars mentally, particularly in how that decision influenced my decisions "IRL" when I started attending public high school when I was fifteen.
There is a particular moment when I wish I had walked into an anime club meeting a few minutes late rather than running away and, instead, running into a person who would only serve to have a severely damaging impact on the past decade of my life. And I think that if I had a better-balanced idea of what I could withstand in terms of mild embarrassment versus being a little more comfortable in the moment in a way that was ultimately damaging.
