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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I had this experience only a few weeks ago and the person just wouldn't be told! She just went around in circles telling me the same stuff over and over, while I tried to talk her out of what she was about to do. After a while I just had to say to her "You know what? I've always said that you are a younger version of me and I wouldn't have listened to someone like me now when I was your age either. I've given you my advice but I know your not going to take it, so I'm afraid that I'm just going to have to leave you to make this huge mistake and for people to get cross with you and for them to fall out with you and not like you, and I think, as it was my case it will be the only way for you to learn from your mistake." She thanked me for the advice but told me she wouldn't be taking it, to which I said "I know!".