What would you think of you?

[SharonDee]

What would you as a kid think of you as an adult? Would you be impressed with how you turned out? Depressed with how you turned out? Surprised you turned out at all?

(This is a poll, in case you're reading this before I finish setting it up.)

[viscousmemories]

I voted "whoa, that sucks", but that's largely because my priorities and expectations have evolved as I've aged. Which is to say that in my youth I never would've imagined I could be as content as I am with as little as I've accomplished/acquired. Not to say I'm completely satisfied, either.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

I voted "whoa, that sucks", but that's largely because my priorities and expectations have evolved as I've aged. Which is to say that in my youth I never would've imagined I could be as content as I am with as little as I've done.

Yeah, that was pretty much my rationale. If my 20-years ago self met me today, he'd try to kill me. Which is fine, because I'd try to kill that smarmy, repressed little asswipe, too.

[Sock Puppet]

I voted "Other," because it would depend on which age that kid-me saw the adult-me. From about 5-9, he'd probably say, "That's all you do for a living? Read and write stuff? Why aren't you a mad scientist inventing cool stuff?" Whereas, 10-16-year-old-me would probably say, "You're still alive? Good job, I guess."

[Pinecone]

I voted combination. Some stuff I think my kid would have been impressed with and some stuff my kid would have rolled her eyes at. I wasn't a very ambitious kid. Quiet, nose stuck in a book type. So it's not very hard to impress her.

[viscousmemories]

:laugh: @ Uthgar.

Whereas, 10-16-year-old-me would probably say, "You're still alive? Good job, I guess."
Yeah, make it 12-16 and my response would've been the same.

[Shelli]

I'm pretty happy with how I turned out and I'm pretty sure that the younger me would be impressed that she got this far. :victory:

[Plant Woman]

I put combination. I would be impressed that my work involves being creative and in two different mediums, three if you count the web. I don't read enough books now and that I would say not cool. Like Pinecone I always had my nose in a book, or collecting rocks, writing or drawing. I would be impressed with my garden as I loved gardening back then. I would be disappointed that I don't grow cherry trees. That sucks! :laugh:

[livius drusus]

I voted other 'cause I think she would have been "huh" mainly on account of the fact that I'm living in the States and not in New York or Hawaii, which is really all she knew of the country.

[Leesifer]

I voted "wow, cool". Because, obviously, I am. :beaugest:

[Shelli]

:giggle:

[Julie]

I'd be horrible scared that /i'd grow up and end up with arthritis just like my grandma (It always was my worst fear ya know)

But other than that I'd be impressed that I stuck with my off the wall kookyness and never bowed down to peer pressure to fit in.

Plus I am the cool Mom...I know that I'm the Cool mom cause not only do my kids tell me that but all the kids at my kids school tell me that.....wonder if it has anything to do with my (untill recently) purple hair...

[Stormlight]

Ohmigod, I'm my dad, probably. And in some ways it's frightening how I resemble him. I could have done a lot worse.

But, if I would look at myself from my 16 or 17 year old self ... another cog in The Machine. :chuckle:

[Ymir's blood]

:laugh: @ Uthgar.

Whereas, 10-16-year-old-me would probably say, "You're still alive? Good job, I guess."
Yeah, make it 12-16 and my response would've been the same.Make it up 28 or so...

[JoeP]

I'd be thinking "not bad, but a long way to go still" :sigh:

[Chris Porter]

Wow, cool for me. I'm glad I'm still around, and happy that I get to do cool things like draw pictures for a living. I'm sort of sad I didn't get to become a icthyologist like I wanted to, but I'm still in the science business, so that's good. And I was firmly discouraged from going into the illustration end of things, even though it's worked out fairly well. I don't get to draw as much as I fiddle around with photos, but I still get calls and requests for work with textbooks and museums, and so on, so I'm sure I would have been impressed as a kid to see a woman doing what she wants to do.

[Watser?]

Well to be honest when I was 16 or so I kinda expected the US and the USSR to blow up the world any time soon, so I am not only amazed I am still alive bit that the rest of the world is too.

Other than that I suppose I would have disappointed me in some ways and not disappointed me in other ways, though I don't really know my old self well enough to figure out how exactly.

[Joshua Adams]

Not that I remember what I was thinking in the past, but I can't imagine anyone looking at me and being impressed.

[Dingfod]

I voted "whoa, that sucks",...Me too. I can imagine my 8-9 year old self saying that. Of course, back then I thought I was either going to be the President of the United States or an astronaut or something really cool, like a fireman or a superhero. My 20-something self would really think I suck. While they might be impressed with some of my adventures and misadventures, they'd think the end result wasn't worth the fun trip, which is why ...

If my 20-years ago self met me today, he'd try to kill me. Which is fine, because I'd try to kill that smarmy, repressed little asswipe, too.... I too would try to kill that smarmy repressed little asswipe, my 20 year old self.

I voted "wow, cool". Because, obviously, I am. :beaugest:But of course, mon ami.

[Shake]

It depends on what time-frame "younger" self you mean. I could see almost any combination of the above or other reactions depending on age and such. I'm not doing anything I thought I'd be doing, work-wise, but I didn't know that I'd enjoy this.

The teenaged me would just be psyched that I got a girl to notice me, never mind marry me. I don't think a younger me would be able to understand how cool it is to be a parent.

A younger me would think all the traveling I've done is cool, though.

[biochemgirl]

I'm certain I'd be pretty damn impressed with myself :D

[Adora]

That's a stupid question.

[Dingfod]

Don't answer it then.

[Adora]

I didn't.

[Petra]

I think my young self would be pretty disappointed with my now self. I was a nerdy kid, who wanted to be a vet for a while, and then I wanted to be a journalist a la foreign correspondent. I had lots of potential and could've achieved either of those, but I squandered the lot. Even just the fact that I grew up to be a smoker would be cause for my young self to be disgusted with me. I almost wish I could apologise to that little girl for wasting her life like I did. :(

[Clutch Munny]

I voted "Other," because it would depend on which age that kid-me saw the adult-me. From about 5-9, he'd probably say, "That's all you do for a living? Read and write stuff? Why aren't you a mad scientist inventing cool stuff?" Whereas, 10-16-year-old-me would probably say, "You're still alive? Good job, I guess."

:yeahthat: