Advice for your younger self

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Ha ha - your life must be one of constant disappointment. :grin:

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If I could tell my 10 y/o self something, it would be to get the %$#@! away from your parents if you want to have any semblance of a happy life.

Of course, thereā€™s no way I could have followed that advice. Weā€™re completely dependent on our parents at that age.

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Not at all Bruce :smile:, just waiting, to see what happens, after all the ridiculousness :grin:

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Always go out. With at least One Friend.
They watch your back. And you watch theirs.
Safe & Sound Rules.

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My advice to my younger self would have been encouraging me to continue to use common sense. I donā€™t regret any of my younger year choices except one.

I do wish I had been more openly compassionate to my friends. They needed the encouragement to know other friends were behind them, mistakes or good choices. Luckily, during the 60ā€™s, I hung out with friends of all backgrounds, as they helped me become a better person for it.

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Not sure sure about any advice, but I would tell myself this:

Smile, and stop with the nonsense. Please, please smileā€¦ especially in school!

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That the years will pass more quickly than you imagine!
However, I donā€™t think I would have listened to my own sage advice when I was sixteen.
All a bit surreal ā€¦

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ā€œHave more confidence in yourself, girlā€!

I also agree with yours Chilli, didnā€™t think years would pass so quickly and I definitely wouldnā€™t have listened to my own advice. :smiley:
Itā€™s all part of growing up though isnā€™t it, we become sage when itā€™s too late. :grinning:
Then again, wisdom is acquired from experience which we couldnā€™t have had during our teen years. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I tell you what Rose, shall we compromise and say ā€˜almost too lateā€™? :slightly_smiling_face::+1:
Ever the optimist! :wink:

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Yes, Iā€™ll take that as an inspiration Chilli, thanks, a good start to an Autumn morning. :smiley:

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Now weā€™re cooking! :wink::spaghetti:

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32

I also would have told myself: ā€œThereā€™s more to life than collecting Duran Duran posters!ā€ :laughing:

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Couldnā€™t do any more when I was sixteen, tried my hardest to get the lads away from their VHS/Betamax devices and get out, and communicate with other beings, unfortunately, they misread time :grinning:

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Off topic butā€¦They still make music today which is nice.

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I would have told myself to avoid women at all costs, and focus on maths and the piano. Those would be more than sufficient to fill your days with fun, logic and enlightenment.

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Simple advice - it all gets easier and better ā€¦ provided you challenge yourself to do the hard & scary things and put in the necessary effort & thinking. Ducking out or avoiding stuff doesnā€™t ever help.
Oh, and try to work out what the other person is feeling before you open your big mouth.

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Yes!
Intuition first, although not necessarily always in that order.
A kind of a blend I supposeā€¦

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@okfirstofall Advice? What, to a 16 year old? I would not waste my own breath.
At 16 I thought that I knew everything and advice was only for other people.
By 18, I was a completely different youth and those extra couple of years made all the difference.
Now if it was possible to put an 18 year oldā€™s head onto a 16 year oldā€™s shoulders, then that would be a fantastic rearrangement :clap::+1:

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Donā€™t worry about the spots, theyā€™re only superficialā€¦

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Not a lot more Rose! :wink:

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