If I could go back to my 15-year-old self-I would have plenty to warn him about or advice to give. Definitely as a first thing I would tell him to change friendships, I mean at that time one rather naively hooks up with the school company, after all at that age it's not like you have a car to drive around or work and meet people, there is the company of schoolmates and you want or not half the day you spend it with them, if you are not sociopathic then another 2-3 hours outside the house you still have to spend it with them you have no material way to spend it with others... only I realized that these were total idiots only a few years later, a small group that all in all seemed good and bonded to me eventually collapsed in a short time as soon as high school started: and one found a girlfriend and disappears, and one finds cooler company and one randomly disappears and doesn't answer anymore...in short at the end of a small group of 10 guys who saw each other every day for years nothing remains...a crazy waste of time in which I could have instead sought better friendships.
Another piece of advice would be to blindly trust your instincts, my instincts once saved me from a kidnapping attempt when I was about that age, a few years later I didn't listen to it but trusted a doctor who caused me permanent damage.
Other thing I would definitely say to my self would be, DON'T DO IT, you're going to have your day studded with URGENT PROBLEM11!!!11!, on-call requests, vacations you can't take because clients don't go on vacation and a thousand other things, I would say “look get a quiet administrative degree, you sit at your desk your 8 hours, Monday Friday without any pain in the ass, quiet and relaxed” because really here is one of the quietest jobs you can get and paid all in all decently.
And in conclusion, less freaking shyness with girls, throw yourself more and put yourself out there that it's all uphill from there, because it's so quick to hit 30 and then it's all uphill!
Random photos taken today at a local playground with the kid
Post in response to @galenkp Weekend-Engagement topics: WEEK 259