What year in your life span would you wanna go back to/why

Tbh i've never been truly happier with my life than nowdays, so absolutely no i wouldn't


It's been very fun tbh, but it's my turn now to leave, so sayonara and i wish you all good luck for the future!

and he deleted his account too...

but I still know that I’m older than u >:)

I mean i really wouldn't but if i had to...
Either 2016 - July 2017 or Early December 2017 - Early May 2018
Felt a lot of good vibes, went on a lot of trips, had fun with the squad a lot, not much drama (compared to literally anytime else within the timeframe in which i was, at least to some degree, socially conscious)

take me back to when I
jokes aside: probably nowhere, im happy to have done all the things i have. if i were forced to, i'd choose this summer because i was finally done with the worst episode of my life

Hmm. It's been ages since the last post on this thread, but I think I'll revive it since imo it has the potential to be very interesting and thought-provoking to read. My own ideas on this have changed since that time (I am the deleted user on the first page).

I would still want to become a more mature person earlier, more now since even at the time of my post I wasn't nearly as mature as I am now (and there is still quite a bit of growing to do, more learning, etc.). Although I would still have liked to take advantage of past events and stuff I could have done, but it would be less for the event itself and more for growing my social circle; since I was completely homeschooled until 2019 and almost all my church friends went to the same school and thus knew each other better than me, I definitely have felt more left out looking back, although there are a couple friendships here and there that I could not have imagined having and that I have no regrets about.

I've since moved on from that crush I had from 2017, earlier last year in fact. Quarantine brought me back down to earth since I didn't talk with her for months, and I gradually thought about her less and less. Now, even though I'm sure she's still a good person, I realize that my thoughts and fantasies of her were grossly exaggerated in places and some not realistic at all, so I hope to find someone more legitimately like the ideal 'soulmate' sooner than later. Plus the said crush has a boyfriend now, so it's all good that I don't think about her often anymore.

Now, I wish I could have relieved other moments in life that I took for granted aside from youth group things and whatnot. I wish I could have done more with my free time to find and pursue hobbies, when I would have had plenty of time to become experienced, and have that experience carry over into the present where it might be more useful to me, particularly if my hobby or hobbies involved any sort of practical skills. I wish I had deliberately left my social comfort zone, my little bubble, to talk to more people and put myself out there and do more things with others (e.g. team sports) - while any friendships I made would still undoubtedly be less than they would be if I had gone to the same school as those people or whatever, at least the friendship would actually exist beyond being simply acquaintances.

I wish I had appreciated my time with my loved ones more and looked forward to them. Back then the only things I really looked forward to with family were Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, my birthday, etc (times when I got food, candy, and presents, because I was a self-absorbed little kid), and I took other time for granted as just distractions from stuff I actually wanted to do, when I should have valued that limited, precious time I had with them (an aunt passed away in 2019 and I deeply regret having little to no desire to visit her even when she was in ill health and could barely hold conversations or recognize me; it would have been the not only human thing but the good person thing, the Christian thing to do, since that is always what I have identified with being despite having made many mistakes over the years).

Finally, I wish I had not sought out so much time for my own pleasures, particularly in the more recent years from 2016 onward. This sounds lumped in with the previous part of this post but it's not, I'm referring to things I should have never started becoming interested in (not illegal or anything, don't worry; I'll keep em unspecified though) because they consumed me, they took over my life like almost nothing else ever did, and unless I had made a change all those years back, they may continue to affect me years later. Not dr*gs or stuff like that but with the way I treated it, they might as well have been. It would have been better for me, my present and future relationships, and my other interests if I had just ignored those stupid curiosities and desires and listened to my closest friends who gave me advice, my pastor, my family. Biggest mistake I ever made, hands down. Addictions are powerful things - no matter if they are something as important as alcohol or drugs, or something seemingly as insignificant as chocolate or video games, avoid them, or you will probably regret your decision forever. If you don't somehow, then I don't know what to say to you other than ask how you avoided it and if you have somehow achieved absolute human perfection, because I believe it impossible or at least extremely difficult to escape them due to human nature.

That's probably the longest and most personal post I've ever made (lol), but also probably my most important - I am still young but perhaps I can still be useful in giving advice to particular people on particular topics. Maybe I'll regret it later, and maybe it's a little too much for a lounge thread on a forum about a $2 block game, but if it 'speaks' to someone or helps them somehow for a greater good, even if it's just one person, it was all worth it to me, despite being kinda incredulous on why I made this post in general and of how many complicated words I've used (lol again). It might amount to nothing, but then again, maybe it won't - I'll just leave it up to God, or just to you if you don't believe in that.