{"id":24451,"date":"2015-08-22T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/six-pieces-of-life-advice-for-our-20-year-old-selves-a-decade-later\/"},"modified":"2015-08-22T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T12:07:43","slug":"six-pieces-of-life-advice-for-our-20-year-old-selves-a-decade-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/six-pieces-of-life-advice-for-our-20-year-old-selves-a-decade-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Pieces Of Life Advice For Our 20-Year-Old Selves A Decade Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Six Pieces Of Life Advice For Our 20-Year-Old Selves A Decade Later<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Every wish you had a &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/relentlessly-gay-yard-hoaxer-returns-all-43000-raised-on-gofundme-pines-for-time-machine-20150819\">time machine<\/a>&ldquo;?&nbsp;There are so many things we wish we would have said or done differently when we were younger.<\/p>\n<p>Here are six pieces of life advice we wish we could give our 20-year-old selves 10 years later&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.&nbsp;Be nice to&nbsp;the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> you hookup with<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/iphone-teenager.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/iphone-teenager-360x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&nbsp;can be tempting, after you&rsquo;re lost interest&nbsp;in a&nbsp;dude, to simply ignore&nbsp;his texts until eventually he gets the hint. Just don&rsquo;t. If you&rsquo;re not into him anymore, just say so, kindly. Otherwise, one day, years from now, someone&rsquo;s going to do the same thing to you and it&rsquo;s going to make you feel lousy and like an idiot for ever believing it wouldn&rsquo;t. And if you&rsquo;re&nbsp;<em>really<\/em> unlucky, you&rsquo;re going to find yourself standing behind&nbsp;your one-night-stand-from-five-years-ago-who-you-totally-blew-off-afterwards&nbsp;in line at the grocery store and&nbsp;you&rsquo;re going to feel like a real <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">jerk<\/a>&nbsp;for the way you treated him. (Not that this has ever happened to us!) And you should. Because you <em>were<\/em> a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">jerk<\/a>. And he didn&rsquo;t deserve it. In fact, he looks kinda hot right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. You&rsquo;re probably not going to marry the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a> you&rsquo;re dating&nbsp;right now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/1280348424_gay-date.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/1280348424_gay-date-360x237.jpg\" alt=\"1280348424_gay-date\" width=\"360\" height=\"237\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry to break your heart, fellas, but your 20s are a period of profound growth and self-discovery. You&rsquo;re going to meet a lot of people, sleep with a lot of people, date a lot of people, and break up with a lot of people, and each time, we promise, it will get a little easier. And, yes, we are aware that there are&nbsp;occasionally <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couples<\/a>&nbsp;who meet&nbsp;fresh out of high school&nbsp;and somehow manage to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> happily ever after, but the&nbsp;vast majority of us&nbsp;have to kiss quite a few frogs throughout our lifetimes, and that&rsquo;s OK. Sometimes kissing frogs can be fun. Assuming they&rsquo;re good kissers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Stop obsessing about getting &ldquo;old&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/Man_looking_at_him_3114351b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/Man_looking_at_him_3114351b-360x225.jpg\" alt=\"Man_looking_at_him_3114351b\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s not forget it was only a few short years ago that you couldn&rsquo;t legally&nbsp;walk into a bar and order a drink.&nbsp;You&rsquo;re not &ldquo;old.&rdquo; And even if you are &ldquo;old,&rdquo; or &ldquo;older,&rdquo; who cares? It&rsquo;s better than the alternative, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.&nbsp;Go easy on the&nbsp;credit cards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/creditcards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/creditcards-360x225.jpg\" alt=\"creditcards\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just because your&nbsp;bank gave you a $5000 credit limit doesn&rsquo;t mean you actually have to spend it. Remember, it&rsquo;s credit.&nbsp;Which means you&rsquo;re <em>borrowing<\/em> it.&nbsp;Which means you have to pay it back. With <em>interest.&nbsp;<\/em>And that shit adds up fast.&nbsp;Think of it like this: The average interest rate on a credit card right now is around 15&nbsp;percent. So every time you make a purchase with your Visa,&nbsp;mentally tack on your interest rate to the bill. That crappy Zara faux leather jacket might seem like a steal at $100, but not so much at $115, compounding monthly interest until it gets paid off or simply abandoned and your credit ruined for seven years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.&nbsp;Call your mom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/740-woman-on-phone.imgcache.rev1425586570203.web_.420.270.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/740-woman-on-phone.imgcache.rev1425586570203.web_.420.270-360x231.jpg\" alt=\"740-woman-on-phone.imgcache.rev1425586570203.web.420.270\" width=\"360\" height=\"231\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can be easy, during&nbsp;the daily&nbsp;craziness&nbsp;of&nbsp;your 20s, to conveniently &ldquo;forget&rdquo; to return your mom&rsquo;s phone <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">calls<\/a> or to answer your dad&rsquo;s emails. But&nbsp;they&rsquo;re just your parents, right? They&rsquo;ve always been there and they always will be there. Until they&rsquo;re not.<\/p>\n<p>Your folks&nbsp;could die&nbsp;unexpectedly at any moment. And when they do, it&rsquo;s going to be more awful than you could ever imagine, and you&rsquo;re going to wish you had spent more time getting to know them and supporting them when you had the chance. Suddenly that overpriced&nbsp;plane ticket home that you didn&rsquo;t buy won&rsquo;t seem so expensive, and you&rsquo;ll feel a sharp pang of regret&nbsp;whenever&nbsp;you think back on those times you ignored&nbsp;your mom&rsquo;s <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">call<\/a> because you were too busy with your latest trick to&nbsp;talk to her for ten precious minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Everything will work out in the end<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/thumbsup2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/08\/thumbsup2-360x237.jpg\" alt=\"thumbsup2\" width=\"360\" height=\"237\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one of the most agonizing parts of being in your&nbsp;20s is not knowing what the hell you&rsquo;re doing with your life. You&nbsp;look at people in their 30s&nbsp;and wonder: How did they get to where they are? How did they decide on a career path? How did they make it all work?<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, they were once just as lost and confused as you are, maybe even more so. (Some&nbsp;may&nbsp;still be huge messes, actually.) Rest assured, you&rsquo;re going to be fine.&nbsp;Things&nbsp;may not work out exactly the way you had hoped or planned. In fact, they&nbsp;probably won&rsquo;t. But assuming you follow our advice, there&rsquo;s a decent chance that, a decade from&nbsp;now, you&rsquo;ll be in an even <em>better<\/em> place than you ever imagined, and you&rsquo;ll look back on your younger self and you&rsquo;ll think: What was I so worried about?<\/p>\n<p>It all worked out in the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/an-open-letter-to-ageist-gay-men-20150504\">An Open Letter To Ageist Gay Men<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=oxDc--BA3XQ:x45FhZBAY0o:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=oxDc--BA3XQ:x45FhZBAY0o:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Graham Gremore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/oxDc--BA3XQ\/six-pieces-of-life-advice-for-our-20-year-old-selves-10-years-later-20150822\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/oxDc&#8211;BA3XQ\/six-pieces-of-life-advice-for-our-20-year-old-selves-10-years-later-20150822<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Pieces Of Life Advice For Our 20-Year-Old Selves A Decade Later Every wish you had a &ldquo;time machine&ldquo;?&nbsp;There are so many things we wish we would have said or done differently when we were younger. Here are six pieces of life advice we wish we could give our 20-year-old selves 10 years later&hellip; 6.&nbsp;Be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/six-pieces-of-life-advice-for-our-20-year-old-selves-a-decade-later\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six Pieces Of Life Advice For Our 20-Year-Old Selves A Decade Later<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Six Pieces Of Life Advice For Our 20-Year-Old Selves A Decade Later - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/six-pieces-of-life-advice-for-our-20-year-old-selves-a-decade-later\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Six Pieces Of Life Advice For Our 20-Year-Old Selves A Decade Later - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Six Pieces Of Life Advice For Our 20-Year-Old Selves A Decade Later Every wish you had a &ldquo;time machine&ldquo;?&nbsp;There are so many things we wish we would have said or done differently when we were younger. 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