If You Could Go Back In Time, What Would You Do Differently In Your Early 20s?

[Complexion]

Nothing.

Those days is what laid the foundation for the greatness that followed. You gotta walk in the dark to be able to step into the light, ya dig?

 

[Ashley Banks]

Probably start dating my husband sooner and skip dating my ex and go straight to nursing school like I wanted to instead of taking my other job. It was definitely not what I wanted to do.

 

[karim]

Stayed the fukk away from the bipolar ass girlfriend I met when I was 21 and stayed the fukk out of law school.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Wait a year before attending college and learning a lot about my finance.

During my early 20s I only cared about getting nice clothes, talking to all girls and clubbing every Friday/Saturday.

I also was taking class after class and didn’t really know what I was in college for.

Also as far as college goes I would have done a better job GPA Wise and would have at least joined a college club or internship/fellowship.

My 20s was a waste but as a 28 year old now I look forward to my 30s. My mind is clear, I’m no longer materialist and just want to travel the world, find a wifey and live comfortable and invest.

 

[Mac Brown]

Bang this one chick in college that I missed out on being a dumb ass.

Not be so insecure about being broke. I'm talking like 20 years old. Hell I was a student.

Start lifting weights then instead of later. (I was skinny as hell in those days)

 

[Mac Brown]

Wait a year before attending college and learning a lot about my finance.

During my early 20s I only cared about getting nice clothes, talking to all girls and clubbing every Friday/Saturday.

I also was taking class after class and didn’t really know what I was in college for.

Also as far as college goes I would have done a better job GPA Wise and would have at least joined a college club or internship/fellowship.

My 20s was a waste but as a 28 year old now I look forward to my 30s. My mind is clear, I’m no longer materialist and just want to travel the world, find a wifey and live comfortable and invest.

The bolded is a major issue. Especially in poorer black communities, because unlike others, a lot of our elders don't know either. They just say go to college to get a good job. But what job? Its not like there were a ton of black professionals available to us to guide us at all or even be an example.

The worst thing you can do in this country is be born poor.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

No point in really dwelling on missed opportunities and failures.

Learn from the past, plan for the future. Even if you 40 you still got time to make good changes.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

The bolded is a major issue. Especially in poorer black communities, because unlike others, a lot of our elders don't know either. They just say go to college to get a good job. But what job? Its not like there were a ton of black professionals available to us to guide us at all or even be an example.

The worst thing you can do in this country is be born poor.

Yea also my Haitian ass mother demanded I go to school for engineering. Got kicked out of college for a 1.7 GPA and had to go to community college.

I was so lost that I ended duo doing an extra year at community college cause I end up taking mostly elective classes.

Once I got accepted to a 4 year college for criminology my head was screwed on correctly again.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

I went to one college that was a complete waste of time, wound up transferring

 

[King Jae]

Save money
Save money
Save money

Woman and everything else stay the same....wouldn't change shyt else...cuz then I wouldnt be me now...need for money will never go away...no matter how much u have..u still gone stress bout it regardless...I turned out alright...s/o the refiners fire...had to get them impurities out me

 

[MJ Truth]

I never would’ve dropped out of school OR never would’ve taken out loans to go in the first place.

 

[Geode]

I should have been a little more selfish.

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Have roommates instead of living on my own