August 23, 2006
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Featured_Grownups post can be found here — Bring Me to Life
Writing challenge from the Kween_of_the_Queens:
Writing a letter to your younger self.
What would you say to your younger self? What advice would you give? Would you offer tips for changing a certain situation?
Dear 15 year old me,
I want to tell you so much. I want to tell you that even though the pain you feel at the circumstances you can’t control is bad, the pain you will end up with from trying to hide from it will grow to overwhelming proportions. You can not hide from life, you must learn to deal with it. Unfortunately, you are ill prepared for this. You have been taught to pretend, to deny and lie about your feelings. The steps you have been thinking about are the right ones. However, mom and dad aren’t as aware as you would like, so come right out and tell them – hinting at it just won’t work. You need help, ask for it.
Begin now putting the family boundaries up. Otherwise it will take years before you can begin to develop a good relationship, especially with mom.
Stay in college – whatever else you do. It is way too hard to do it after you are married with kids so when you get married, make college happen.
Speaking of marriage – open your mind a little. Such narrow ideas of the ideal person make it harder for you to accept the “one” when he comes along.
In addition – think about investing. Apple is going to BIG (apple as in Macintosh) This will make it easier for you to make your dreams come true (and your future daughters as well)
PS – when considering doing cartwheels down the hall – don’t – it’s very painful.
PPS – start a daily exercise regime now, so you don’t have to later.
PPPS – when computers get big – get in on the ground floor and learn some html dangit!
PPPPS – all those Star Wars cards and collectibles you have? They are going to be HUGE – don’t let mom throw them out. They could feasibly pay for your college. (Have her keep all the stacks of comic books too).
Please stop by the Kween_of_the_Queens blogring to read all the other great entries. Feel free to join us for fun writing challenges. Also, please comment.Question of the day:
What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self?
Comments (36)
Great letter!
It was a good challenge to do. 
MiLady,
Now why didn’t anyone else think of telling their younger self about the hugh investment opportunities?!
I guess I just didn’t think I’d take the advice! Great letter honey! I enjoyed it immensly!~K.K.
I dont know whether to cry or laugh. Your letter is awesome. Thank you for shareing. Ya, what about all the stuff good ole mom tossed? If on we knew then what we know now>…Yours in Christ, Sis Pris
good job
I liked your advice and how I wish we would have saved some of our toys from childhood too.
Wow…that’s great! I so needed some advice when I was 15. The one thing I would’ve told myself was NOT to have sex so young. Although, if I hadn’t of, I wouldn’t have my kiddos now. I love them dearly. Fantastic letter…yeah, I have to agree with the exercise routine. LOL!
Great letter and good advice!
Cute letter and great advice….
Great letter and advice so yourself. I would have to do some serious thinking to write down what advice I would give myself. That is a good challenge
loved it!! I’m going to give that question some thought. Have a great night.
I would tell my younger self to start putting mederma on your stomach at age 15 to prepare for the crazy scars you will get when you carry twins 10 years down the road.
One piece of advice? Hmmmm, I think I would tell my younger self to get help for depression ASAP, instead of waiting until a doctor finally figured it out after baby #1. My earlier years would have been much better if I had.
great letter
hugs, jen
I should have saved my walking doll and barbie dolls…:) o well.
great letter…
hugs..
vanida_ANGEL
Wish that I had told myself to have stayed in college and tuffed it out between our two kids.
Oh how I wish that I had all those toys and comic books. Would be rolling in the cash now…:lol:
Great letter.
Oh such good advice to give ‘her* ‘ just wonderful..hope ‘she ‘ is happy now* take good care and thank you for your comment* Lee
Great letter!
I love it get in at ground floor. Hinds sight is 20/20
RYC: Yes my son is nut, he makes me laugh.:lol:
LOL on the collecting advice. Why did our moms always want to get rid of our stuff????
wonderful and thoughtful letter.
Great letter. Thanks for stopping by.:)
Good advice to your younger self .. sometimes we just can’t see when we are young.. and great advice on those things on the computers and collectables.. way funny though..
I think it’s interesting that a lot of us wrote to ourselves as teenagers . . . probably shouldn’t be so surprising. I especially love the first paragraph of your letter, I could have written that for myself as well.
Thanks for reading and commenting on my letter. Take care and have a great day!
i loved the letter. especially the advice about investing and not throwing away the star wars stuff. I wish I had saved my stuff too. loved the song too by the way.:sunny:
I’m glad you liked it… stop by any time.
It looks like you had some painful circumstances in your life as well. I think that was a common theme of these letters. I hope that things are better for you now.
Yes, the letters all seem to bring out our common pain we share! Its amazing how much we all pretend, isn’t it? Like we are so used to feeling all alone in what we have ALL gone through! Nice letter. Good practical advice, too!
I loved your letter. Most everyone was so insightful that they forgot about the lucky tips but you did both!
RYC: Thank you. It’s a song I have loved for many years. Was so hard to choose one.
The trading cards have become valueless now unfortunately…at least that is what I was told when I took mine in to sell. To many issued in the nineties…Blech.
Advice to my younger self? Apply for the scholarships and ignore dad’s edicts so I can go to the college of my choice and have a life….except then I’d have missed out on Keith…darn.
HUGS!!!
I wish that I too would have paid more attention to that computer programming class I had way back when! Great letter!
Cartwheels down the hall??? Sounds like a good story there! Great letter and I do wish for that investing advise now, too bad we can’t really send a message back…or can we????????
Wouldn’t it have been great if we could have had these letters to help us over the rough spots in our younger days? I hope you were able to develop that good relationship with your mom.
Thanks for your comment about my letter. I’m not miserable as a lawyer but I sure would be more content if I was off in the jungle working with orangutans instead!
Have a great weekend.
Great letter! I enjoyed it very much!:goodjob:
Lots of great advice. I really enjoyed your letter. I wish I’d kept all the comic books my brother handed down to me, as well as the Beatles Album in German and other things. Good idea! Apple rocks.
Great letter; note…our parents want us to experience the child rearing from their point of view…and then they have the right to say…”Hon I would of done it this way or that way” it’s a fun game they play with us…we have the kids 24/7 and they get to have them for a little while here and there…hope that your eyebrows are well plucked by now…I always said that I would not use my mother’s sick sense of humor on my kids…raised 5 boys no problem..1 girl and the first time she told me to shut up I quoted my mom “On your 21st birthday”, stopped took a breath turned completly around and asked where my mom was…that is exactly how she raised 12 of us kids…a wicked sense of humor…at times it is enough to stop one in their tracks…Smile
Funny letter, especially about the stocks. I didn’t even know about stocks back when I had enough money to buy them. Now I know about them but I can only afford lotto tickets!
I really hated to be out of town for this assignment because I really wanted to read all the posts. Yours was good, and had lots of good advice without being too hard on you. I think your younger self would have taken your older self seriously.
I am almost 48 years old and am just now developing a relationship with my mom. My mom is almost 80, can’t remember things well, and is very needy. She needs help and I no longer need a mom, and can help her to the best of my ability so this works out for us… Maybe we learned something in all this to make us better parents-eh?
You did a good job with this assignment.