{"id":3816,"date":"2025-06-09T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:31:34","slug":"meerkat-prompts-if-you-could-visit-your-younger-self-what-would-you-say-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=3816","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Prompts: If you could visit your younger self, what would you say to him?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This prompt was offered to me by the ever-wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/ohai.social\/@rawenwolf@meow.social\">Rawen Wolf<\/a>, and this kind of reflection is often a fascinating exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I were to visit say, 18 year-old me, fresh out of the sixth form and entering the working world, I would suggest calming down. I could be a bit hyper, for lack of a better word, and tried too hard to be the joker of the pack. I would urge myself to be more comfortable in my own skin. I would suggest to myself that I stop fretting, and focus more on what was in front of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I would offer similar advice to 16 year-old me too, only in this instance it would be more about paying attention to coursework, knuckling down in the sixth form, and the like. I might also suggest that I go to the gym, and I would almost certainly suggest getting tattoos! Then again, that wouldn&#8217;t be legal till 18, so perhaps that advice would be for my 18 year-old self. I also suspect I&#8217;d receive serious pushback on that one, not least of all from myself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, if I could, I would also pass on the outcomes of major sporting events, with the suggestion of placing a few bets, but that might be considered less advice, and more rigging the system \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=122\">Back to Meerkat Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This prompt was offered to me by the ever-wonderful Rawen Wolf, and this kind of reflection is often a fascinating exercise. If I were to visit say, 18 year-old me, fresh out of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-stuff","tag-random-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1589.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}