Song Title: Everyone's Free (To Sunscreen) Baz Luhrman
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '99. sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable my own experience... I dispense this advice now
Enjoy the power and beauty of youth; oh, nevermind, you not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now, how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you looked. You are NOT as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real toubles in life are apt to be things that never your worried mind; the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday
Do one thing that scares you.
Don't be reckless with peoples hearts. Don't put up with people who are with yours.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, only with yourself.
Remember you recieve. the insults. If you suceed in this, tell me how.
your old love letters. Throw away your old statements.
Do not feel if you don't know what you wanna do with your life,... the interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most ineresting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're
Maybe you'll marry, you won't. Maybe you'll have children, you won't. Maybe you'll at 40. Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on 75th wedding anniversary.... Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself - your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.
Enjoy body, use it every way you can... be afraid of it, or what other people think of it... it's the instrument you'll ever own.
Dance... even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own room.
Read the directions, even if you follow them.
Do NOT beauty magazines they will only make you feel UGLY.
Get to know your parents, you never know they might be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; They're your best link to your past, and the people likely to stick with you in the future
that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should on. Work hard to bridge the in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in California once, but, leave before it makes you soft.
Accept inalienable truths. will rise, Politicians will philander, you too will get old. And when you do, fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and respected their elders.
your elders
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a spouse; but you never when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.
Be careful advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia; dispensing it is a way of fishing the past the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than its worth.
But me on the sunscreen.