What were you like 5 years ago?

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,440]

I was a very angry person. I still get mad but have learned that holding onto most anger is just not worth it. So I try to mellow out. Still very grumpy when I am tense or things aren’t going right. But I don’t explode over every little thing anymore.

[Cash In 22,304]

Five years ago was 18? That feels weird to say.

To answer the question. Younger, angsty and I guess a bit of a mess. Now I'm a mature mess!

[Sovereign Leader Rarity 12,006]

I was sad, angry and afraid, to be honest. I feared for the future and overly-reminisced on my past mistakes. But I know now that I have people who care about me, and that's a privilege that many people don't enjoy.

I'm trying to be be better everyday, and it's a start. 

[Envy 6,160]

Five years ago I was stressed out finishing my senior year at college. My arthritis had just began to show and I hadn't even begun to treat it yet. I had no clue at this point 5 years ago, but the following year and a half would be one of the most major trials I had yet faced. Trying to return to my stocking job was a mistake. A big mistake. I had no idea... and it hurts just thinking back about all I was going to go through that almost completely broke me.

[Dreambiscuit 9,691]

I was more ebullient, but also more irritable and reactive. Now I'm a tad more mellow...unless I'm not. 

[TheRockARooster 51,145]

Moments ago, Dreambiscuit said:

I was more ebullient, but also more irritable and reactive. Now I'm a tad more mellow...unless I'm not. 

You're lovely, Dreamy. 

You're lovely now and you were lovely then.

Nothing has changed.

[Player the FNFL Boi 119]

I was still completely innocent and didn't understand things I know now...

[Espy Vibe 4,280]

I was annoying, dreadful, unbearable, anything along those lines 

[Dreambiscuit 9,691]

Very much the same as I am now to be honest. I was here on the forums posting the same kind of stuff and my opinions and personality haven’t changed a great deal. I may not be as bubbly as I was then, but overall I’m the same.

[Winter Storm 237]

In the same unfortunate spot I feel like I am stuck in now.

[Ice Princess Silky <3 13,885]

Sadly, not much different than I am today... Except with more insight now as to what I should do with who I am rather than selflessly focusing on family and business to my own detriment. It hasn't allowed me much character development other than my having bonded more with certain friends I should have bonded with much sooner <3 

[Longhaul 6,862]

Let's see ... in the past five years I've had some new experiences, both good and bad, and somehow wound up not changing all that much from what and who I used to be.

[Gone Airbourne 21,977]

Everything was beautiful 5 years ago... it felt like it would never end. Like sifting sand it all disappeared. Just existing now...

[Twilight Sparkle97 402]

An 18 year old high school senior boy who was misbehaving a lot, got suspended a few times, and was so close to missing graduating that year due to being suspended two weeks before graduation. Now, I'm living at my parents house, already working, and I'm also living as a girl now. 

[Ponoptikum 8]

Surely I was a completely different person - much more simple-minded and naive at least. I was constantly playing video games, rarely I took a walk with my friends or went on nature - a typical couch potato) Yet the events of recent years have changed everything drastically. My worldview is completely different now, and I got a bunch of new interests too - MLP as a example) Also I have learned to play guitar a little bit. I remeber that once, a couple of years ago, my acquaintance - that is like 10 years older than me or so - said that I am much smarter than I look.  

[Nightfall Gloam 18,258]

A lot has changed over five years.

Five years ago, I used to be a lot more depressed and envious for sure, and used to feel like I didn't fit in, even towards my own family. Much of the issues I had back in 2018, I feel like largely came from my then inability to move on from the long distance relationship I was in back in early 2017... If you didn't know me then, trust me it was a pretty big deal at the time, and, honestly, at this point, I'm glad I was finally able to move on, even if it took forever. I do, however, find it interesting how different my attitude was in 2017 (naive optimism) vs 2018 (honestly probably my lowest point in my life). Maybe there is some psychological reason for that, I dunno. At this point its the kind of thing where, since I have posted about it on the forums before, I look back on it now and think "wow, Sam, this just feels cringy looking back!"

Adding to my issues from back then mentioned above, I didn't really have any hobbies, and much of my time was just spent being terminally online. Looking back, I do also kind of feel like I ruined some perfectly good friendships I had at the time. I haven't really thought a lot about this stuff since, but, with how much I've matured and grown up since then, yeah, I messed up...

I was still going to school (well, TAFE) back then as well. Honestly I do miss my friends there, but I do occasionally hang out with one of my TAFE friends and his friend group at the city at least.

The house I live in, my lifestyle and my worldviews have also changed quite a lot since then. Unfortunately, I have also generally become a lot more cynical recently, if also a bit anxious about the future, outside of that, though, I do generally feel like I'm in a better place now than I was back then, and I do also feel like I'm more a part of my family now too...

[Ice Princess Silky <3 13,885]

I was ambitious and fiercely dedicated to my work with a lively flare. Until.... something happened. I discovered a broader world after the pandemic and now I wish to further explore it. While regaining that same ambition and focus, somehow. I'm at a crossroads at the moment and I'm hoping the next five years will be more to my ideals.

[DubWolf 17,263]

Ehh uncertain, lacking self-confidence.

I still do today. What I had before was a wee bit more innocence and a feeling of "things will probably be ok". Now it's "am I EVER getting out of this loop"? Probably, says my brain. Plus I was 5 years younger so I didn't have "almost-30" syndrome.

[Cash In 22,304]

I was really shy and struggled a lot with confidence. I avoided everything I could and as a result, I punished myself by forcing myself to feel as worthless as possible. I was a very cynical person and often followed a doom and gloom mentality. I had many bad days five years ago, but if I can look at it under a positive lens, it taught me a lot and I'm more proud of myself for rising above it.

[Rikifive 24,183]

I was more optimistic, happier and healthier. With each year that passed, everything gradually got worse. 

Just like these 5 years ago, I'm still in the same loop where I have no idea what to do with my life. 

[Sparklefan1234 170,554]

Five years ago I was the same as I am now but I don't think I had a Della Duck avatar. 

[Divine plywood 1,239]

Career vice everything is pretty much the same, been walking the same circle and repeating the same loop. But, now when I think about I'm now in much healthier headspace than back then. Soooo, yay?

[The Recherche 29,968]

So 2018 would qualify as five years ago now? Oh dear, where does the time go...

It's tough to objectively say what I was like back in my early days of MLPF. I was quite eager back then, needless to say; MLP was honestly a huge novelty for me at that stage of my life. Getting into it felt bold back then, and something that had been a long time coming ever since my adolescence.

I have never been terribly ambitious, but I thought about the future quite a lot back then. I still do now, albeit with a lot more dread and indifference. I do often admire and miss my enthusiasm, but it was frankly unlike me to act in such a loud, ostentatious way. I would say that I am overall in a better place in my life now. Even so, I wish I could muster the energy required to get to a better place than I am now. In hindsight, 2020 specifically was truly a rotten year that all extinguished any drive I had to reach new heights. I do my best to maintain my bodily and mental health, but honestly, I feel as though I am running out of reasons to do so at my lowest points.

[Iforgotmybrain 5,662]

I was just entering my first semester of college at 19. I'd say I was a different person back then but like... Not to an extreme degree. I was a lot more of a recluse and was even more anxious than today. Both of those on account of things I'd only deal with in that 5 year span. I'd certainly say I was more sure of my future back then. Now? Meh. I don't know, it is what it is.

Overall not really that different of a person. Which is to be expected I guess, 19-24 isn't as major of a development period when compared to say 13-18.

[Jesse Terrence 2,968]

Starting up a factory for my cousin. He took some really bad decisions and the project failed, ruining me, lol

Oh, I read wrong, my bad.

I was a better person. But entropy. So I'm way worse than before

Edited August 17, 2023 by Jesse Terrence