This is for all of you who are older, and hopefully wiser. Haha. I'm 17, and was wondering: If you could go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be? :thewave:
I would tell myself not to hold grudges and to laugh and play more. I would also have shoved myself out of the closet before university. (not advice really but i wish i could go back and do that)
I'm with Lex on this one. I'm not that much older than you are BenIsScared, but my advice to myself at your age would be to take a deep breath and relax because as much as there seems to be imminent deadlines for things, there isn't, and as much as it seems like all the problems of the foreseeable future are absolute and insurmountable, they aren't.
To just be yourself and enjoy the moment, instead of being afraid how your peers at school will be judging you.
One piece of advice. "Dont get so caught up and aggravated with the small stuff. Its just not worth it."
Quoting Ani DiFranco. I feel like such a cliché. ---------- Post added 14th Jul 2011 at 08:14 PM ---------- And to go along with the above, don't let your decisions in life be guided by fear.
Don't think that you have to know who you are by this stage. You're not going to enter into a relationship for another four years. Enjoy being single, and you will figure yourself out in time.
"Stand up for youself. Erasing every single trace of your personnality and letting people abusing you is not how you're going to be loved and accepted. Be yourself, ans stop caring about what people thinks."
I'm not exactly very old, but I'm doing this anyway I would say, "Your life is yours to live. Don't give in to people who don't understand you."
I'm not older than you but I would hAve taken more chances and I would try Very hard not to be shy because life is like a mist appearing for a little while the vanishing basically it's too short to waste worrying abt what other ppl think
Go to public school-your gonna have a better chance at having more friends in a school of 2000 than a private school with only 200
You know that one centipede that you saw running across the bathroom floor in eighth grade? KILL IT. Don't go to bed. It will breed and there will be MULTIPLE CENTIPEDES in your room for the next few months.
1. You will figure it all out soon enough. 2. The grass really is greener on the other side. 3. All those things you thought were stupid and a bad idea.... They were but do them anyway.
Be happy with who you are and don't try to live your life to please others. It's your life, not theirs.
