Lately there has been this big "thing" about what would you tell your sixteen year old self. I was 16 three years ago. I was in grade eleven. Here's what I would tell myself:
- Don't do OP. Change straight away to Voc-Ed. Keep OP English, but seriously. CHANGE! You won't regret it because you'd probably get better grades than the shit ones you got for two years.
Don't worry about not having a boyfriend because within a year, you'll go through two relationships and come out hating the idea of being in one.
Start saving for that trip to America. It will become your life's mission to become an american citizan. And your going to need serious amounts of dough to do that.
When it comes to the end of the school year and your in the biggest friendship fight of your life. (Yes, the one that you didn't go to school for two weeks and then went to a different school to sign up for) Don't give up. It seems like the end of the world and that your never going to have any friends and that you spent 9 weeks alone all summer but when you walk up to the group on the first day of senior year and it's like that fight never happened, that moment is probably the greatest feeling you feel.
Sunny Winslow will become your hero. Right now, you just copy her look.
That day you and Rachael skipped school and went to chermside and you came home and Mrs Sullivan left a message. Thank the heavens when she calls back several weeks later, it's about Luke, not you.
Don't worry about growing up. By the time you hit 19, you still don't wanna.
You're never going to grow. 157cm for the rest of your life baby.
Contact that girl from when you were eleven and she was your best friend. Never is too late.
Become a serious vegetarian.
Finish collecting all of those Baby-Sitters Club books. They get more expensive as the years go on.
Things I love about you:
ReplyDelete1. The Daria picture. Too few of our peers are aware of who Daria is. I consider myself a bit of an authority on the topic. I was the Quinn Morgendorffer of a Daria-Quinn set for Halloween. No one knew who we were. No one.
2. BSC. Who knew that we'd be scrounging thrift stores for those? I never saw that one coming.
Being 16 sucked. For everyone. We really should be allowed to advise our retrospective selves. It'd really be doing the world a favor.
P.S. Being American is not quite all its cracked up to be. Its impossible to ignore the likes of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. Consider this. America comes with a whole lotta crazy.
daria was awesome. if i want it on dvd, i have to buy a region 1 dvd player and man, that sounds complicated but i need one them also to get freaks and geeks. i know! i once found a heap on amazon.com and ended up paying 360 in australian dollars to get like thirty of them lol
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