Where or who were you ten years ago? Tell us your story. (share a picture for extra points)

Ten years ago? I was 10, probably picking my nose and stabbing other kids with crayons.

Ohhh I was pregnant with my son, my daughter had just started preschool, and I was less happily married than I let on (to other people or to myself). I wrote every day, I was a bit of a rabid environmentalist, and I was doing volunteer copyediting in my spare time. Oh, and I was damn near constantly at home and alone. I don't think I had a single non-internet friend outside of my ex.

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I was eight and I had long fcking hair 😭 it was past my butt! Living the life in elementary just having fun because all you did in elementary was color and do nothing because its just shits and giggles 😅 I was a shy kid but yet I was hella bossy 😂 I always was telling people what to do
I was the leader in my lame little group 😂 legit was like mean girls but in elementary
Damnnn I was mean I would tell other girls they can't play with me or my friends because its only the four of us

I have no picture 😬 my grandma has them and probably burnt them all

I would have been 24. This is probably the only pic I have of myself around the time. I was in college going to be a pharmacist and working on my sister's father in laws farm. I had hair back then which was thinning since I was a teen. I was really skinny. Still weighed 119-120lbs. I had weighed that most of hs, part of the reason I was bullied so much. Had bad image issues back then and still do. I spent most of my time on my own, was and still am a really quiet person. I had a crush on my friends sister which would have been a pastors daughter. She had liked me before but stopped having feelings, then I ended up having feelings and she didnt. Since then I have lost my direction, never fished college, and still pretty much a loner with a lot more trust issues with people. Yikes pics upside down

Ten years ago I was 16, just finished school and started my first job as a car mechanic. That was the time I started to dislike myself more and more. I lost contact to most of my friends because they either moved away or I wasn't motivated to go out on the weekends anymore because work was new to me and I didn't really like the job anyway so I was happy to have at least two days of the week all to myself with absolutely nothing to do. I didn't like the way I look. I was overweight and had an awful sense of fashion and because I never had a girlfriend back then and thought it would stay like that forever I saw no point in changing anything about my appearance. And classmates in vocational school bullying me for being the quiet, shy and stupid looking loner didn't really help build up a healthy self-esteem. I can't show you a picture because I either deleted or burned them all, or most of them, to leave this time behind.

Ten years ago (2007) I was 52 years old, an attorney and an Assistant Vice President of a mortgage bank. I looked similar to what I look like now, except with less grey hair. I was about to have received an award for having served for over 20 years at the bank when it suddenly was dissolved and the owners would file for bankruptcy by the end of the year.
The timing was actually not bad, as I was able to do certain things for my family that I wouldn’t have been able to do had I been working at the bank......but I was out of work for a number of months in between temporary jobs, not getting another full-time job until 2009.

This time ten years ago, I was hurting really badly, though the worst was yet to come. (On 11/08 will make ten years ago since I woke during surgery). I was weak, naive, and had no idea what I wanted to do with myself or my life.

Ten years later- I'm stronger than I give myself credit for, not so naive, and am doing something with my life that I've always wanted to do, write a book (make that three, LOL)

10 years ago I was 31 and just moved into the house that I bought. I lived by myself for around 7 years after that. I don't have a picture of myself from back then. Thank goodness. Lol.

10 years ago, I had just turned 22; used to have like a military-style short hairstyle. I think I was significantly less mature than I am today.

It seemed like something unfortunate you asked asked "10 years ago" as I am not so proud of where I was in those days--kind of embarrassing for me actually. 😐

*Takes a breath* 10 years ago, I was finished with or just about to finish school that year--I actually finished school a few years late due to circumstances and the school I was in. It was a private (not as good as it probably sounds) school that I went to because of so-called 'OCD', but it was a different curriculum (ACE) and apparently I had learning gaps--so they put me back a few years and I never closed the gap. The school curriculum also changed a few times, if I'm not mistaken.

I'm not sure I'd be able to find a photo of me from exactly that time, but the closest I have that is also easily accessible is this one from when I was 19, almost 20 (it's an ID photo):

Ten years ago... I was 20. I had no idea who I was. I was so unsure of myself. I probably hated myself a lot back then. Physically I looked better then, but mentally I think I'm much better now. I'm a lot more confident now. Other than that I don't think I've changed that much.

Ten years ago? 🤔 I was a 1 year bitter divorced who was unable to let go, sinking into the darkest recesses of himself...but then that sounds too dramatic, so I would say I was a grumpy divorced man 10 years ago...

I was me (who else could I have been) and I was very much the same as I am now, except that I hadn't yet discovered websites like this.

10 years ago I was writing all the time and working on a lot of stuff that I was actually able to finish back then... I wasn't joyful but I was happy at least...

You were already lovely to look at. I hope some of your dreams [b]do[/b] come true.

Ten years ago I made the decision that I lived long enough and would die... I was isolated from family and friends when I didn’t want to be.. my brothers hated me, and my parents were arguing over who’s child I was.. as if they were a divorced couple, and I was a bill or something neither wanted to pay..

Idk..

Now it’s different but all the same

I was a mere small boy ten years ago.

Lol the only photo I have of me ten years ago is kinda odd I'm naked in my apartment corridor with only a towel covering my junk and the photo was taken by an ex randomly 🤓

I was 9 yr😕 and..., going to new school,moving to my parents, and trying to make new friends even if I was the most quiet and depressed kid 😕😂 btw you looked pretty😍

You look lovely. Great story and picture.

Very beautiful then now and always