If only I'd known then....

[ilovemyglo]

Hey all- anyone around here that remembers me? LOL!! I've been lurking and not posting for some time again and started thinking-
I joined Greekchat around late 1999 and back then I was a 19 year old sophomore, just joined a struggling chapter in my sorority, had NO CLUE what I had gotten myself into and I was looking for a place to find information that could help me and my chapter.

Now- fast forward I am 27, engaged, buying a house and have a great job! But I started thinking about it and sort of wish I could go back to 19 year old ilovemyglo and tell her a few things..

So this thread is for the things you wish you would have known back then (i.e. high school, college or whatever!).

So I will start:

1. You need to realize that the guy you think is so cute and you want to talk to- well, you can talk to him. It won't hurt if he isn't in to you- and rejection isn't so bad as regret. So please go talk to him so that you don't have to wonder if MAYBE you could have had a chance.

2. Those people that you are so jealous of- let it go- it isn't worth it. You have no reason to be jealous of anyone because you have everything and don't realize it. You have an incredible family, some amazing friends and this is a great time in your life for learning and exploring- so she has perfect skin and drives a 350z- learn to love yourself and you will be so far ahead of her!! (and the shallow people you meet- they will still be shallow in ten years, but 2 of them will have figured out they were jerks so continue to be nice to all of them. You never know who may end up being a cop or senator!).

3. Don't take school so seriously. Yes, good grades help you get a good FIRST job, but after that, no one cares that you had a 3.96 or that you missed that Aerosmith concert to study and get an A on your midterms!! YOU MISSED FRONT ROW AT AEROSMITH DUMBA$$!!!

4. That college boyfriend- he probably isn't THE ONE- neither is the one after him, or after that one. He's going to show up at a time you don't expect it, in a place you don't expect it and you may very well despise him when you initially meet. Don't judge a book by a cover, as you wouldn't want people to judge you that way.



Okay I have plenty more- but I want to see what everyone else shares!