Is there a word for this?

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I wonder if there is a word in any language to describe that exact feeling one has when one sees someone much younger doing exactly the same stupid shit one did at their age.

You know when you know exactly how the shit they are getting themselves into is going to develop and end but there is nothing you can do to create a shortcut for them to skip all the mess and save all the time. You know that there is nothing you can say that would make sense to them now and stop them. Nothing. Because those exact very simple and logical things you want to say to them were said to you over and over again at their age but somehow they didn't make any sense at all to you then and you just thought that the people who said them were very very annoying and couldn't possibly comprehend the super unique issues of your super unique life.

If there isn't a word for this, I think we should create one.

I wonder if the Germans have it. They seem to have many cool ones:
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[bichoose.livejournal.com]

I remember all those bags of advice laid at my feet poured over my head that drifted across my mind..i always thought that my generation with flowers in the hair and music from Lennon to Dylan would change the world for a better place far greater than any generation and most of all we were right to think so..sadly there were not enough of us...i recall reading about a small group whom attended the isle of white pop festival i think around 1970ish...they are now bankers and have discarded such flowers in the hair as dross....as for a single word to say it all..is perhaps kamikaze...lol...as always take care...