If you could call yourself five years ago and had 30 seconds, what would you say?

I know your question said 30 seconds but I just wrote this all out before seeing that part of the question and I just feel the need to post it. Sorry OP.

Okay so this is the year you're going to develop these horrible stomach and gastrointestinal problems. It's kind of hard to describe but I believe it started one morning where I suddenly had to go the bathroom to take a dump, making me miss my bus and then Mom had to drive me to school. Eventually this starts to happen every morning. And at some point you start having to go during school, which as of now you almost never do. But you will have to. You will be going to the bathroom multiple times a day. And not to pee, mind you but to poop. Which is not normal and sounds horrible and it is. It'll start to control your life.

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking about going to a doctor, to see what's wrong with you and prevent the problems. Now here's the thing: I've been doing that. For about four to five years. And I still have them. I went to a bunch of different doctors. I tried a bunch of different things to attempt to fix them, to make them go away. I even got this rectal prolapse surgery. But I still have them. If I couldn't find a solution, I unfortunately doubt you can.

So this isn't really a positive message as you can see. I guess I just felt like telling you of what's to come.

I'm also going to be honest with you: I'm depressed as hell right now. Like these problems have made be depressed before but it's really bad now. I'm a 20 year old virgin and a junior in college. I've never been romantically involved in any way with a girl I also still don't have a driver's license because I always put off on reading the manual and thus never took the test. I don't if that last one really has to do with the stomach and gastro problems but it just adds on you know? I feel like I want to kill myself. Because I don't see any way out of the situation I'm in. As I said I tried to solve these problems, for years! But I haven't. And I'm starting to think I never will.

Stuff that reminds me of high school makes me depressed and sometimes angry. I think of how it could have been better, in which I never got these stomach and gastro problems, where I would have been able to have a happier and funner high school life. I hate how the last three years of my high school life were basically dictated by those problems.

I guess I do have some advice to offer. It's not going to help with the stomach and gastro problems but it's still advice. On the bus you currently take to school you may notice a girl with long (like really long), brown hair that's often frizzy. You may not notice at first but she's tall. She's 5'7". Taller than a lot of the girls in your school. You'll notice these bumps on her face that look like pimples though they're not red or anything. She's also French, has an accent. You may think she's not that attractive, at least now. Talk to her. Yeah I know it's hard for you to go up to girls and talk to girls but I don't care. Talk to her. Spend time with her, become her friend. I don't know if you can go beyond being friends with her, due to the aforementioned "problems" you will face in the near future, making a relationship like that difficult. Which sucks, because you are probably, like me, going to develop feelings for her. But being just friends with her is still worth it. Because she's one of the most beautiful, awesome, and unique people I have ever met. And I didn't meet her until Senior year, in English class. I only had one year with her. You can have three.

Oh and another thing: Read that fucking driver's manual.

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