How have you changed in the last decade?

Mist_sl said:

I never get laid.

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Understandable.

I learned that everyone on internet forums lies about everything.

Mist_sl said:

I got a lot angrier and less tolerant of stupid people.

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I got a lot less angrier and a lot more tolerant of stupid people.

I'm obviously way more rational than I was 10 years ago now. Drinking all day on my days off and skateboarding around have changed to mostly reading cook books and going out once a week. I'm a thousand times more confident in myself as I've climbed the ladder. Even 3 years ago I used to be a bulldog at work, barking orders and leaving miserable to go get wasted. I'm way more calm and even-keeled even in the most tense situations like corrective actions and dealing with someone who isn't as experienced in our field. Leading a team vs managing a team comes up a lot when I'm teaching a sous chef to someday take my position (which honestly I just stepped into.)

That biological itch to reproduce is hitting hard vs that I was honestly thinking about a vasectomy like 5 years ago.

I make more rational purchases and balance my bank account much better. I used to live paycheck to paycheck and now I'm saving up for some property when I move in the next couple years.

I left the religion I was forcefully raised in. I dumped all my shitty friends and started my life new. Starting life over at 20 years old is hard but it has been very rewarding.

I've mellowed quite a bit and stopped being so angry. On the other hand, I now have convictions. Convictions are a thing which I desperately tried to avoid 10-15 years ago. I've no doubt that in 10-15 years from now I will look back on these convictions with some mixture of nostalgia and shame. But life is change.

In some ways I've grown, in other ways regressed. I guess.

I have come to realize and accept that I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, I can't explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "pay out" the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well--let it get worse!

I learned to drive, drink, and make terrible decisions, not necessarily all at the same time.

And mmo's lost their charm somewhat.

Lost my virginity

Living in my parents house to living in my own condo.
Single to married.
Low 5 digit salary to low 6 digit salary.
1997 used Corolla CE to a new 2013 Audi A6 3.0T.
From playing EQ PoP to playing with my 4 year old son building RC airplanes and crashing them (unpurposely). <=Best lifechanger right there.

I always knew that everyone on the internet claiming to have a vagina was lying, but now I've learned that everyone who has a penis will eventually try to turn it into a vagina.

I also grew a lot as a person, mostly around my midsection.

I'm way worse at Mike Tyson's Punch Out than I was 10 years ago.

EnigmaticParadigm_sl said:

Reading over some of the old threads

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FoH threads?