Enjoy your teenage years, be careful, have fun
My advice would be to ask a variety of adults (who you know) what they wish they knew when they were in the time period of being your age through their early 20s.
Not everything they say will be applicable to you, or will be impactful, but you're bound to pick up a few valuable insights that might give you head starts in several areas, if you implement them while very young.
The toughest part of youth is that you can't know what you don't yet know, and any strong life lesson shared with you by someone else who endured the pain to get it, so that you don't have to, is worth its weight in gold.
stop caring what people you don't even like think of you
it was a serious moment of clarity for me at 14
Enjoy life, friends, the world. You have no real obligations apart from school, you have no real worries. YOLO.
-Get off social media, comparison is the thief of joy. People post their best moments and they make them look better than they are in reality. It’ll make you feel bad or FOMO and subconsciously damage your confidence and happiness. The insidious thing is even though we all know social media is fake, our lizard brain deep down doesn’t so even though you know it’s all bullshit your subconscious reads it as real. Best thing to do is to get off it completely but that can be impossible socially so limit your time and exposure to it. Use it to make real world plans with friends and then call it quits for the day.
-You’re young, now is the best time to increase your bone density! Work out, lift weights, train with a weighted vest. Do so safely and your bones will thank you, that way when you’re in your 80s you won’t be so brittle. A broken hip is a life changing event- and not for the better!
-Start to play a team sport, football, netball, hockey, baseball whatever. If you git gud now as teen you’ll have the confidence to join your chosen sports amateur club in whatever city or town you end up in though your life, it’s a cheat code. You get to move to a new place and immediately have 5+ mates who are local. That’s SO good. If you can’t find a team sport, try getting into running, and join a running club, same reason, but team sports are better for bonding.
NEVER respect your elders. None of them have earned it.
Easy to say from this seat, I wonder what the next few generations will complain about for the rest of us. I'm sure we're fucking stuff up so bad right now that we don't even realize. There's also plenty we are fucking up right now.
I am in fact saying that as a teenagers' elder.
Go to parties, because of course you will, but dont get fucked up on drink and drugs, and keep a small medical kit handy (bandages, steriliser, whatever else).
You can enjoy everyone's company and you'll definitely get the chance to be a hero one sesh.
Feed your mind, stay flexible (yoga), learn how to plan, but more importantly how to readjust.
Great question!
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