What's some advice you would tell your 16 year old self ?

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  • SugarNtheRaw
    SugarNtheRaw Posts: 191 Member
    1) Put down the cookies!
    2) Kick Jo-El in the taint, NOW!
    3) Tell Denise to GTF over herself, and DO NOT HELP HER. EVER!
    4) Get everything in writing!!!
    5) Don't buy the Cabrio
    6) Life experiences are great, even though they suck at the time, they DO happen for a reason, and in a few years, you'll have a steely gaze and metaphorical balls of solid effing rock. You'll be able to handle damn near anything, from being a fire-fighter, to a wife, and you will be totally ok after you move a few thousand miles away. If anything, you'll be better for it.
  • atjays
    atjays Posts: 797 Member
    Nail every girl that offered it up, because looking back on it now I wish I would have!
  • lgtahoe
    lgtahoe Posts: 96
    Dear 16 year old me:

    You are smoking hot -- let the boys chase YOU! But maybe get your eyebrows waxed : /
    Your hormones are raging, enjoy it, safely, but stay away from Stuart, Jason, and Ty.
    You have a fabulous metabolism now, enjoy it, but know it doesn't last forever. When it starts to wane in your 20's, get a grip on your appetite and learn about portion control. And stay in the gym consistently. You CANNOT eat whatever you want the way you used to!
    Cry less over the boys, save more money, don't get credit cards, major in something useful like business.
    Oh, and when Chris sends you a drink that night in college, get up and go thank him. Maybe you'll both learn about your mutual crushes on each other, rather than months later when you're both dating other people. Who knows what might happen.
  • Fitnthin101
    Fitnthin101 Posts: 25 Member
    Dear 16 year old me,

    Your high school boyfriend is not the one! Don't stay with him for the next 6 YEARS! Have fun and date! When you go to college have the chance to be single! Then, eventually you'll find the one. ( I did find the one by the way. But with a huge heartbreak previously from that 6 year relationship).
  • WhittRak
    WhittRak Posts: 567 Member
    Dear 16 year old me:

    Stop hanging out with such weirdos who do drugs all day, they are making you look bad. Oh, and stop being such a little *kitten* to your parents, you are acting like an ungrateful heathen! And put down those cigs, you do not look cool smoking them and they make you smell like @ss. If you would just apply yourself more in school, you would have better than average grades! Oh, and that skater guy, has an eating disorder...that is why all he eats is cantaloupe and is turning orange (stop dating him). Straighten the hell up and stop being such a friggin brat all the time, not everything can be your way 24/7.
  • JennaM222
    JennaM222 Posts: 1,996 Member
    you must ALL read the book, 'what I would have known then" letters to my former self.
  • Aperture_Science
    Aperture_Science Posts: 840 Member
    It doesn't make you blind.
  • skinnieminniemouse
    skinnieminniemouse Posts: 118
    Things are about to get real bad, but keep your head up and you will get through it a better person :)
  • Jen32285
    Jen32285 Posts: 281 Member
    Quit caring about partying and work harder at school. Go to college... yep i'm 27 and haven't gone yet. Be wiser with your money. I would love to go back and redo things. Oh well... live and learn.
  • mrsnathanandrew
    mrsnathanandrew Posts: 631 Member
    Dear 16 year old me,

    What he did to you wasn't your fault, and it isn't worth trying to kill yourself over. I promise it does get better, and in just 6 short years, you'll be marrying the man of your dreams.

    Love,
    Me
  • Bahet
    Bahet Posts: 1,254 Member
    Buy stock in Apple.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I'd tell my 16 year old self to buy more clothes that are a bit too big on me... they'll be back in style in another 24 years. :laugh: But there's no way I'll be under 110 pounds again.
  • amberpaigee
    amberpaigee Posts: 74
    Boys LIE. ALL OF THEM.
    Keep going to the gym.
    Your friends are right! Spend loads of time with them when you go to college!
    Most importantly - wear your retainer for the love of God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Memster1
    Memster1 Posts: 13
    16 year old self......

    Do NOT date that girl your Senior Year in High School. She is not the girl for you, and you will lose 2 years of your young life.

    Stay in college and go out for the Cross Country team - you would have been good!

    Buy that stock in NIKE. A few bucks now will allow you early retirement.
  • StarvingDiva
    StarvingDiva Posts: 1,107 Member
    Life gets better after high school, learn to love yourself as once you love you, everything else falls into place and don't marry your first boyfriend.
  • bangersnmash90
    bangersnmash90 Posts: 78 Member
    Dear 16 year old self,

    Stop skipping PE classes, you'll regret it when you STILL can't do a proper push up 6 years later!

    P.s You're not fat! Eat more and bloody exercise!

    Yours, older self (still working on that push up)
  • Lasityttö
    Lasityttö Posts: 79 Member
    Don't teach yourself how to deliberately throw up. And always clear web browser history.
  • XFitMojoMom
    XFitMojoMom Posts: 3,255 Member
    DON'T DO THAT!
  • princessruthiebelle
    princessruthiebelle Posts: 165 Member
    prepare for even more heartache! but your hard work will pay off in the end!

    don't be such a scardy cat

    dont find comfort in food, it will bite you on the *kitten*!
  • GemmaRowlands
    GemmaRowlands Posts: 360 Member
    Hey 16 year old me :-).

    Drop the guy. He's playing you! He likes that he makes you feel good, and he loves that you'd do anything for him. He does it on purpose. Don't fall out with your best friend over him. If you don't read this in time, she will forgive you, but only 4 years later. It's not worth it.

    I know you hate the way you look. Do a bit of exercise, cut down on the chocolate. In the future, you lose six and a half stone. You get beautiful. All the haters, all the bullies, they know nothing. When you see them in their dead end jobs, they look at you in shock. Make sure you thank them for being horrible; because they gave you the power and motivation to achieve this.

    Don't give up on music. I know you go through a rough patch because you feel as though your brother is much more talented, better looking, funnier, richer than you- but that doesn't matter. Don't give it all up because of that. Yes he will achieve better grades than you. Yes he'll be a better performer than you, but that doesn't mean you have to stop. I'm sure your friends didn't mean to leave you out in favour of him. Talk to them instead of just retreating meekly and quitting everything that was special to you.

    Work hard at university. You were capable of a first, but you got lazy. Yes things were tough, but that's just life. In first year you could have worked harder, revised more. In second year you hardly tried at all, and then by third year you'd already lost too many marks to get a first. You will still get an amazing degree if you ignore this advice, but you could have done even better if you'd just pushed yourself a bit more.

    Finally, don't give up on your dreams. People will tell you that they're never going to come true, and you'll probably think that yourself many, many times; but they're all wrong. Dreams can come true, and you deserve them to.

    Hold on xx

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