So what's your point?

[xyzzysqrl]

The last few days I've been having dreams that are variants on a theme.

Once, I was back in Maryland and rather younger, and spent the day driving around with my old friends from there.
Once, I was back in high school, and the teacher was bringing various old classmates to the front of the room to tell me what a moron I was.
Once, I was back in middle school and the teachers themselves were lined up to tell me how badly I was failing.
And today's dream, I was trying to write but kept getting phone calls from my younger self through a time telephone.

Dear brain: I don't know what you're trying to tell me, but stop already.

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[fleetfur.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking about this very subject this morning even before I read this. I was wondering, if I could go back in time and meet my younger self, whether I could guide him and stop him from making the awful mistakes that I did (thinking "I could be rich and successful -and- still ensure that I repeated the things that I got right". Then I remembered that who I am now is the sum of both the bad and the good, and the bad times gave me knowledge that I've used to help other people with their own lives.

So even if you don't view yourself as being as successful as you had hoped for, it's still not too bad a life after all. Turn the lemons of the past into lemonade by using the wisdom gained from failures to have a better chance of success in the present and future!