Ladies and Gentlemen of the of '97. sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, would be it. The long term benefits of have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience... I will this advice now.
Enjoy the power and of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have 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 you and how fabulous you really looked... 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 troubles in your life are apt to be things that crossed your worried mind. The kind that blindside you at 4pm on some Tuesday.
Do one thing that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your on jealousy; Sometimes ahead, You're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's with yourself.
Remember the you receive, forget the insults; If you Succeed in doing this, me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do your Life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 olds I know still don't.
Get of calcium.
Be kind to knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't Congratulate yourself too much or yourself either. choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, Use it every way you can... Don't be afraid of it, or what other Think of it, It's the instrument you'll ever own...
Dance... even if you nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, will only make you feel ugly.
Brother and sister we'll make it through Someday your spirit take you and guide you there I know you've been hurting, but I've waiting to be there For you. And I'll be there, tell me now, whenever I can. free.
Get to know your parents, you never know when be gone for good.
Be to your siblings; are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that come and go, but for the precious few you should hold 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.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you Live in Northern California once, but leave before it you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will Philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children their elders.
your elders.
Don't anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, Maybe you have a spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it look 85.
Be careful whose 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 from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for than it's worth.
But me on the sunscreen...
(Brother and sister together make it through your spirit will take you and guide you there I know you've hurting, but I've been waiting to be there For you. And I'll be there, tell me now, whenever I can. free.)