July 19, 2012
Free, Unsolicited Advice
Ahhh, to be 16 again! If you’re young, try to go out and do everything and be silly and wonderful and revel in your own glory, even if you have to remind people just how beautiful and awesome you are. You never get your youth back. All that stuff about only being as old as you feel is a half truth. No, a quarter truth or less. It’s pushing it to say it’s true at all. You are young once for a reason. When you get older, you may have bills and mortgages and insurance and correspondence and responsibilities, and quite right, too. Those are privileges of being old, earned through time and money and labor and purposes, some that will seem to young people to make sense, but only in theory. Loosen your young mind from such worries, and admit you can’t and won’t understand them for a while. You don’t want to. Go out, meet people, make friends, make connections, make memories. Go to a museum and look at old art with your young eyes. You need it, and it needs you. Old art for old eyes will only get older. Play games. Make a ruckus. Annoy the shit out of someone. Play with your life. Fall in love and/or lust. Budget your time to include passion. At some point, if the opportunity presents itself, leave a job and tell someone who needs to be told it to go fuck themselves. Smoke, drink, fuck around. Make sure to get good at something. Brag about it. Do something memorable for a friend so that when you are both old, you can tell that story to one another over and over again. trust me, it will get better with each telling when you’re older. Wear silly hats, own one outfit that is utterly of the time you are in and find a way to keep it forever. At least take a photo. Take pictures of all your friends, and get strangers to take your pictures together in all your favorite places. Lose occasionally. You need to be immunized against loss, not that it will ever get easier. Hug some people, kiss some people. Have someone’s back and let them know it. Have a favorite of some kind, like a food or a beer or a gum. It will either be around forever and you’ll have nostalgia available to you like a cheap drug or they’ll stop making it and you can let it grow rosy in your memories and become better than anything ever was.
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Why do I feel like it’s too late for me?
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