What Five Things Would You Tell Your 16-Year-Old Self?

This is stolen from Life is a Journey, Enjoy the Ride (Big Hooves). Here are five things I'd tell my 16-year-old self:

1. Exercise and/or walk every day.
2. Use sunscreen and quit sunbathing.
3. Don't go steady with the first guy you date, and for goodness sakes don't go steady for six years! (He was a nice guy. Nothing against him. You just need to meet more people and not be in a relationship at that age.)
4. Listen to your elderly (and other) relatives' stories. Write them down in a journal.
5. Dream bigger. And start working on it NOW.

What would you tell your 16-year-old self?

Comments

[I Gallop On]

I like this post. Very much. It's the kind of thing I think about every now and then, and I find myself looking back on my sixteen year old self with compassion. I knew absolutely nothing when I was sixteen. I would tell my sixteen-year-old self to take the time to know about life before I acted and made decisions. What's the hurry? I'd tell her. Know yourself--is what I'd ask her to do.

[Lori]

take every opportunity you have to travel!
it almost doesn't matter where....