Sure. Here are the things I would tell my younger self if I had the chance:

Well, we are also changing schools for educational issues, but yeah, the friendships thing is a bonus.

Curitiba, Brazil. It is one of those places where most people live in the same street they grew up in, and they don't tend to like "outsiders" who came from other cities like us. They do socialize with my husband's friends' kids - my work friends don't have kids - and with the kids in our building. It is just the…

I had a quarter-life crisis when I was about your age and it set me on the path to where I am now, which is awesome. But it was painful as fuck. The early twenties are a weird, hard time. But then it seems to get generally better with each year.

Yes, I am hateful because I don't think the mom deserved to just leave her 6 kids at home for 6 weeks because after all, she was abused once. So that excuses all the abuse and neglect she is doling out on her own kids. If only I could be full of love and support for mothers who leave their kids to fend for themselves…

I do, but I live in a city notorious for people being unfriendly and closed off. I sign them up for clubs and activities, I throw birthday parties, and so on, but culturally, kids are not much of a priority in parents' lives here. Their kids are usually made to socialize with their friends' kids, or not at all, and…

I feel like I didn't mentally balance out until at least 27, for one thing. And it took me a long time to just like myself and be comfortable enough in my own body, and I guess I just noticed that I did after I settled in to 30.

For one thing, it makes it harder for my kids to have friends. I am no good at socializing, eek.

I'll be 32 in a couple of months and to be honest? You couldn't pay me to be 20-something ever again.

Based on the number of my friends in the 40-50 range who seemingly turned from fun-loving, humorous liberals into conservative cranks over the span of about six months, I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit on this one.

Yes, yes it is. I feel my value as a person (and as a female individual) depreciating every year.

Oh great, so I am going to be this neurotic, introverted, disagreeable loser forever. Thanks a lot, Tracy.

Bah. You're a youngin. I'm in my mid-twenties and I feel oooooollld. I hate anyone younger than me now. They make me feel bad with their countless possibilities and youth.

I have 4.5 years to change....but I'm a procrastinator so really I have 3 months.

Interesting.

My aunt, who is a highly educated (PhD plus lots of specialized training) practicing psychologist (as opposed to researcher/academic; she's been practicing for over 30 years, too), asserts that we have the option to "fix" character, and it tends to come across different times of our lives.

She says that…

Totally! But I guess the point that I was trying to make is that you really can't judge the book by its cover. Just start hanging out near libraries, I'm sure you'll find one :P

I'm in the UK too and seriously, guys who dress like that are everywhere! !! And that's definitely not hipster style.... it's just dressing like a normal guy. True hipster style is.....something else.

One time I started kind of dating a guy because I thought he was a hipster (he DRESSED like a hipster so he fooled me). After talking to him/hooking up with him for a month, he told me that his biggest goal in life was to have a fairytale wedding and have his woman waiting for him in the bedroom when he gets home, and…

guardian singles, lol

but given a choice I'd pick regular dude who looks like a hipster as opposed to actual hipster.