Name: Tess Thompson
Home: St. Louis
My Advice
On a local bulletin board I belong to, someone posted the question, "What advice would you give your younger self?" I will share mine with my readers, free of charge:
Enjoy who you are and where you are now.
It's exactly the same advice I would give myself now--but I figure if I went back in time and told it to myself at, say, 16, I'd have had a whole decade and a half's worth of practice by now and might actually be good at it.
Speaking of cross-temporal advice, I can remember being in elementary school and worrying about when I would be a teenager and subjected to the peer pressure to do drugs that I'd heard so much about. I wanted to write my future self a letter to warn her not to give in, but I knew even then that such a letter would be useless, since my childish self would likely get little respect from my teenage self. (Luckily, drug use did not turn out to be an issue, even without a letter.)
What advice would you give your younger self? Do you think your younger self would listen?
Enjoy who you are and where you are now.
It's exactly the same advice I would give myself now--but I figure if I went back in time and told it to myself at, say, 16, I'd have had a whole decade and a half's worth of practice by now and might actually be good at it.
Speaking of cross-temporal advice, I can remember being in elementary school and worrying about when I would be a teenager and subjected to the peer pressure to do drugs that I'd heard so much about. I wanted to write my future self a letter to warn her not to give in, but I knew even then that such a letter would be useless, since my childish self would likely get little respect from my teenage self. (Luckily, drug use did not turn out to be an issue, even without a letter.)
What advice would you give your younger self? Do you think your younger self would listen?
posted by Tess | 11:18 AM
4 Comments:
"Don't major in English. Or at least, for heaven's sake, double major in English AND something like Education or perhaps Marketing. It will be worth the extra effort and give you valuable experience when it's early enough that you don't have to worry about paying bills." OR "Go to law school instead of grad school!"
Sorry. You asked. And I'm just talking about me.
Speaking of which, I would also add, "Take some sociology classes. You'll thank me later."
"Don't stop dancing, or if you do, find another athletic activity" Maybe then I wouldn't be so darn lazy.
There is no "permanent record."
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