What you would tell your 16-year-old self
Jun. 25th, 2005 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"If you could go back and talk to yourself at age 16, what 5 things would you say?"
1. You're a talented person. Believe that, rather than believing that you're stupid or bad. Tell yourself positive things.
2. Don't be so ashamed of having an opinion that people disagree with. Stand up for yourself. Real friends are people who back you up on all the important stuff anyway, so you don't have anything to lose other than fear and hanging out with fake people.
3. Community is important. Care for the people around you; it's not just B.S. that the U.N. school came up with. Do something real with the CAS requirement.
4. Double check and organize your work; it'll save you SO MUCH grief later.
5. Go find a real sport (not horsebackriding) that's cardiovascular. It'll give you a better bond with other people, and it's good for you.
... all advice at which I'm sure my 16-year-old self would have nodded, smiled at, and more or less ignored, while she went along doing what she was going anyway. Okay, she might have worked at point #3, and #5, but I had to take those years from 16 to 24 to grow into most of this advice.
"If you could go back and talk to yourself at age 16, what 5 things would you say?"
1. You're a talented person. Believe that, rather than believing that you're stupid or bad. Tell yourself positive things.
2. Don't be so ashamed of having an opinion that people disagree with. Stand up for yourself. Real friends are people who back you up on all the important stuff anyway, so you don't have anything to lose other than fear and hanging out with fake people.
3. Community is important. Care for the people around you; it's not just B.S. that the U.N. school came up with. Do something real with the CAS requirement.
4. Double check and organize your work; it'll save you SO MUCH grief later.
5. Go find a real sport (not horsebackriding) that's cardiovascular. It'll give you a better bond with other people, and it's good for you.
... all advice at which I'm sure my 16-year-old self would have nodded, smiled at, and more or less ignored, while she went along doing what she was going anyway. Okay, she might have worked at point #3, and #5, but I had to take those years from 16 to 24 to grow into most of this advice.
