Compare yourself on now vs. you in 2020 on below?

[Arcadian222]

Goals: What you wanted to be back then and how it turned out? Can be education, relationship, parenthood, career etc. depending upon your stage in life.

Physical: height and weight?

Maturity: Any key experience that influenced your emotional growth or brought about any change towards life?

[Gobbyjobby52]

A lot has happened since then for me

Physical 5'10, 60ish kg, thin like plywood, now 5'10 and 1/2, 80kgish, broader and somewhat muscler

I wanted to be a successful indie game developer, have absurd amount of money and do what i loved doing. I was also a thirsty but unwell 18 year old who just wanted someone to cuddle and care about but it became symbolic and extreme from porn use and illness

Now im working on getting on a part time job, joining martial arts, developing skills and additional skills through different online courses so i can go on to do higher level job roles that might be more interesting and rewarding to do long term.

One thing that shook me was when i was hospitalised twice in 2021 and then 2023 for a breakdown i had first at college; i was bullied twice in hospital and i learned that hiding behind a cocky demeaner wouldn't work and that i looked weaker next to patients who had been working out, read the bible had a greater broader understanding of life and were skilled in martial arts. My therapist believed it was possible i was not as bright as i believed and pretended to be and that i may have been compensating with a narrow and sharp cornerstone of my real self which both was hurtful to hear but mostly true.

second at uni which didn't go on for more than 2 weeks before i collapsed (i was doing electronic engineering and was unwell and having delusion in and out of sessions) i admission myself in and i learned that i may have been taken advantage of by peers this time.

This same other fellow patient was perceptive and he warned me that if i kept playing video games and avoiding life "the streets are your home". This scared me shitless at the time and still haunts me a bit today, i learned that i had been cushioned a lot and avoided responsibility which made me more venerable to the people around me both in wards and outside. even to to this day i avoid playing more than a few hours of video games every few days because part of how im wired is that id get hooked to the inner world and stories in the games and stop caring about the world around me.

[NathanDavis]

back in 2020... and that was the pandemia year, so my ONE focus was for my business to survive, not to succeed, lmfao but to survive such unprecedented situation and well... it did, so that's good

physical... I'm already a grown ass man lmfao... I am not going to get any taller anymore

loss... is something very difficult to experience and go through, and I am not sure if one ever gets "better at it", you just go through it, I guess...

[Nikki1989]

My fortnightly wage has doubled with the job promotion I received. Our jam band has improved significantly. Apart from that, life is even better than ever. I owe a lot of it to my wonderful marriage.

[butterly248]

I ended my abusive relationship. I am highly likely going to be a mother in the next year. I'll be working again soon. I found someone who loves me fully, even my mistakes and flaws.

[BCRanger10]

Goals - Bought a house, completed my Catechist training, making a lot more money, up to 3 kids now.

Physical - Same height, have a few more pounds.

Maturity - I'm less anxious, more organized, and I think more mature in my thinking.

[Anonymous]

I'm now married and trying for a baby
The beginning of 2020 I was single and lonely the end I met my soulmate