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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.
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.
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Feed your mind, stay flexible (yoga), learn how to plan, but more importantly how to readjust.
Great question!
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.
stop caring what people you don't even like think of you
it was a serious moment of clarity for me at 14
There are two main scenarios: Preventative advice, and Advice when something has happened. For me as a teenager, i struggled with advice after something had gone wrong. I'm reading the lists below and wondering how I might have wanted to hear it
Don't go to university, unless you really want to work in engineering or teaching.
You'll be saddled with student debt and your job prospects will be worse than if you decided to start flipping burgers or stacking shelves at 18.
Open a free brokerage account now and buy an index fund. Only index funds and even if it is $20 or $4 a month keep investing in index funds. Fidelity has several with no fees. Google what an index fund is. Don't ever gamble on a regular stock, it's basically gambling and not worth it.
I thought I was too poor for the "stock market" but I was an idiot and now I'm a much older still-broke idiot who is never going to get to retire.
Also start saving for retirement now. Open a Roth IRA and fill it with index funds.
I know this sounds ridiculous and stupid and not fun but seriously preparing for your financial future is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself. I wish I had.
Don't be me kids.