Meeting Your Younger Self

What advice would you give your younger self if you met them?

To live a good life, we need wisdom.

We do become wiser upon growing up but this wisdom isn’t of the highest level.

It’s because we start working on ourselves only after we have become a little more mature.

But by this time, as children, we have learned many things that have already shaped the way we think, feel, and emote.

So, life when we grow up becomes a game of compromises and catching up.

Whether and how much can we improve upon the wrong things we have learned as children, start defining our lives.

But what if we met ourselves as children who are capable of learning what is taught to him or her?

What advice would you give your younger self so that he grows up to become wiser than what you are now?

It would save a lot of their time and effort by showing them the correct way.

And as a result, they would be much smarter than what you are at your current age.

By the time they finish their lives, they will be able to do a lot more than we are now capable of doing.

So, what advice would you give your younger self?

What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self

So, what advice would you give your younger self based on your life experience till now?

Develop Yourself

The first answer to ‘What advice would you give your younger self’ is to develop yourself fully and to the maximum potential.

The basic accessories of life that God has given us are our mind & body.

Everything else in our lives is a result of how developed these two basic faculties of our lives are.

The better they are developed, the bigger and better our lives will be.

If we can develop our minds & bodies anywhere close to their actual potential, we will thrive as a human being in every area of life.

It will make us calmer, and more intelligent, both mentally & emotionally, and thus would make us happier and more successful in our lives.

So, we must develop our mind and body to their full potential.

But how do we develop our mind & body close to their maximum potential?

Formal education is a way to develop you to earn your livelihood.

It doesn’t develop you to live a good life holistically.

To develop your mind & body to their full potential, we need to take care of a very important thing.

Your fears, struggles, failures, or disappointments should not be able to contain you.

You should not let them affect you, let alone let them define you.

When we get scared, we go into a shell that is not good for our personal development.

When we shy away from struggle and striving, we do not grow and do not dream big.

And when we do not want to fail, we do not even try. 

If we can get over these shackles, we will give ourselves a rich & diverse experience of life which will develop us to our full potential.

It will prepare us to achieve anything and everything we want in life.

It would make us truly capable of living our lives to its highest possibility.

Thus, when the question is ‘What advice would you give your younger self’, the first answer is to let yourself develop fully by not containing yourself.

Always Be Yourself

The second answer to ‘What advice would you give your younger self’ is to always be yourself.

If we achieve our true selves but do not stay true to ourselves, it would be a pity.

Most of the people are not able to achieve their true potential or their true selves.

Thus, if you have achieved it, you should not throw it away.

Being yourself should be your only option when you have developed yourself to your full potential.

When you are yourself, you are calm, confident, and your most intelligent and efficient self.

But when you become stressed or angry or get distracted or “corrupted” by the things that don’t define you, you risk losing yourself forever.

And if you lose yourself, it would be almost impossible to recover yourself.

You will have to redevelop yourself from scratch which would waste a lot of your precious time & effort.

Thus, ‘always being yourself’ is the most important answer to ‘What advice would you give your younger self’.

So, always stick to who you are, and your unique ways of doing things, and go only after your “first-hand” dreams.

Never get influenced by the ways of others or by their personal goals, especially not when they are soiled with wrong or evil intentions.

Stay true to yourself and life will remain simple, smooth, and easy-sailing for you.

Thus, when the question is ‘What advice would you give your younger self’, the next answer is to be yourself no matter what.

Keep Learning

The third answer to ‘What advice would you give your younger self’ is to keep learning throughout life.

You can never claim that you are complete or you don’t need to learn anymore.

Thus, developing yourself and being yourself aren’t the only things you need in life.

You also need to be mentally open so that you keep growing beyond yourself.

You should be able to make good things and important skills a part of you and your life.

You need to see what’s going on around you, especially the important things that are evolving fast, and you need to keep yourself updated to stay relevant and thriving.

You should be careful to make only good and important things a part of you, or else they may weaken your identity or who you have developed yourself into.

Thus, learn the general important things anyway, and where there is a choice, go only for those things that enhance you as a person or as a professional.

The ultimate goal of life is to use who you are and what you evolving into every moment to achieve what you want from life.

When you can do this, your life becomes fulfilled and you become a complete human being.

This is all anyone should be willing to advise their younger selves.

Thus, when the question is ‘What advice would you give your younger self’, the first answer is to keep learning constantly and keep yourself updated.

Why It’s Still Relevant

Is asking yourself ‘What advice would you give your younger self’ a futile thing to do?

It may seem a futile exercise as it’s not possible.

Your childhood is done and dusted and all that you have is the present you.

If you think so, think again.

This exercise still has meaning, relevance, and benefit to you.

First of all, remember that your inner child is still there within you.

So, whatever you teach your younger self, you also teach your inner child or yourself.

The above three pieces of advice give you the crux of life which you can implement in your life now.

There is no good time to learn about life and you can go on learning till you are here.

Secondly, think again if you aren’t already advising or going to advise your younger self currently in your life.

Isn’t your son or your daughter your younger self?

Yes, they are, and you have to teach them to live life.

Thus, the three pieces of advice given here can be taught to your children so that they do not repeat the mistakes you committed in your life.

By doing so, you would be able to make up for your own mistakes.

And when you connect with and improve your younger self, it will boost the self love within you.

Thus, asking yourself ‘What advice would you give your younger self’ isn’t futile at all.

So, connect with your younger self, teach him your important life lessons, and feel the self love within you growing limitlessly.