Ladies and gentlemen of the of '99 Wear
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, would be it The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been by scientists Whereas the rest of my has no basis more reliable my own meandering experience, I will dispense this advice now
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth, oh, mind You will not understand the power and of your youth Until faded but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back At photos of yourself and in a way you can't grasp now How possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked You are not as fat as you
Don't worry about the Or know that worrying is as as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum The real troubles in your life are apt to be things never crossed your worried mind The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some Tuesday Do one every day that scares you
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Don't be reckless other people's hearts Don't put up with people who are reckless yours
Don't waste your on jealousy Sometimes ahead, sometimes you're behind The race is long and in the end, only with yourself Remember compliments you receive, the insults, if you succeed in doing this, tell me how Keep your old letters, throw away your old bank statements
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you to do with your life. The most interesting I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives Some of the most interesting I know still don't Get plenty of Be kind to knees You'll miss when they're gone
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you Maybe you'll have children, you won't Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll the 'Funky Chicken' On your wedding anniversary Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too Or berate either Your choices are chance, so are everybody else's
Enjoy your body, use it way you can be afraid of it or what other people think of it It's the greatest instrument ever own Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your own living Read the even if you don't follow them Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel
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Get to your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good Be nice to your siblings, they're your link to your past And the people likely to stick with you in the future
Understand friends come and go But a precious few, who should on
Work hard to bridge the gaps in and lifestyle For as the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were Live in New York City once but leave it makes you hard Live in northern California once but leave before it makes you
Accept certain inalienable will rise, politicians will philander, you, too, will get old And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were Prices were reasonable, politicians were And children their elders
your elders
Don't expect anyone else to you Maybe you have a trust fund, you'll have a wealthy spouse But you never know when one might run out
Don't mess too much with your Or by the time you're 40 it will 85
Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient those who supply it Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the From the disposal, it off, painting over the ugly parts And it for more than it's worth
But me on the sunscreen
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