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I've been thinking a lot lately. Is it normal for a 21 year old to be nostalgic? For him to look back on a meager 21 years and already be disappointed by what he sees? I had so many things that I wanted to do in this portion of my life, wanted to become and experience and I've only gotten to so few of them. I look back and see a wake of mistakes,
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- Most people want deep and meaningful conversations, few people have them. The key is to find a small group (no more than four, in my experience) who are not hyper, not sleep deprived, and have nothing serious on their minds. Then ask a leading question. The key is to avoid humor and arguing, both things that are extraordinarily common at BSFFA. You have to understand and not dismiss points that you disagree with. Bryce was the last person at Beloit that I knew who was really talented at that.
- Do you wish you had done things differently based on what you know now, or on what you knew when you did them? That's a huge difference. The former is just an unfortunate symptom of the fact that no one is omniscient and has to learn from experience. It's the latter that's a sign you may want to work on changing your own behavior.
- Paragraphs. They are your friend.
- The most important thing I can tell you: never regret your mistakes, no matter how severe, to the extent that that regret impairs your ability to learn from those mistakes. If you don't regret a mistake, people will think of you slightly less highly. If you don't learn from a mistake, you'll make it all over again. One of these is much worse than the other.
- I agree with you completely about wanting to live the last four years over again. When people ask what super power I would want it's the ability to create parallel dimensions and go to them at will, so I can live through things multiple times and then come back to the real world and do it the right way.
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