What message would you sent to young you?

[Mendalla]

One of the songs on Laufey's Bewitched album is titled "Letter to my Thirteen-Year-Old Self" and it is pretty much what it says on the tin. It's what Laufey would say to her young self to encourage her and let her know that all would be well and someday all the trials and turbulence they were going through will end and, as she says in the song, "little girls will scream your name."

Laufey – Letter To My 13 Year Old Self

[Verse 1] / Don't you worry 'bout your curly hair / Clothes that don't quite fit you anywhere / Voices echo in the gym / Another girl's had her first kiss / Please don't think too

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So what would your message to your younger self be? A warning of things to avoid? Encouragement? Something specific or just a general message about life?

 

[Mendalla]

Of course, Laufey is only twenty-five today (her birthday was just last week, in fact), so that thirteen-year-old self isn't really that far in the past. For some of us, that young self is much further removed. Wonder if that makes us see that past differently than someone her age does.

 

[Luce NDs]

Of course, Laufey is only twenty-five today (her birthday was just last week, in fact), so that thirteen-year-old self isn't really that far in the past. For some of us, that young self is much further removed. Wonder if that makes us see that past differently than someone her age does.

Its the thyme machinations ... cloes to the thighs ... eigh's got it ... Sgott's????

 

[JayneWonders]

interesting question. I will ponder this.

Teen years can be such a struggling time.

 

[paradox3]

Just ignore anyone who tells you the teenage years are the best time of your life.

 

[Mendalla]

Just ignore anyone who tells you the teenage years are the best time of your life.

Amen to that. If those had been my best years, I'd hate to think what the worst ones would be like.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Anxiety hangs out in your solar plexus; watch for it.

 

[Luce NDs]

AD hessian????? tacky ...

 

[WhyCzar]

Just say no to smart phones.

 

[Mendalla]

Just say no to smart phones.

LOL. We never had the option when I was young. I was in my mid-late thirties by the time the first ones (Handspring/Palm Treo, early Blackberries) came along.

 

[WhyCzar]

Always trust yourself. You are the only first-person witness to your story.

Everything you hear about yourself and the world around you is a subjective interpretation filtered through someone else’s lens – which is shaped by their own biases, interests, (sub)conscious influences and value judgements, and the biases of those who, in turn, shaped them.

The biggest fight is to not allow them to replace who you know you are, with their projections of who they think you are. The world is one gigantic courtroom – and everything is persuasion. Those who are born into privilege and can buy their way into positions of power and authority, most often get to decide the outcome of the external story. They can certify and endorse each other’s version of reality and impose it through brute force or majority-rule, but it does not make it the truth.

I came across that quote while trying to find out more about "Diagolon" and thought it fit for purpose here.

 

[Mendalla]

Always trust yourself. You are the only first-person witness to your story.

I think that would be part of my message as someone who was very much an "outsider" in my childhood and teens and took some serious self-esteem hits because of it. Be yourself and be proud of it and f--- the bullies who reject those who aren't like them.

 

[Luce NDs]

I think that would be part of my message as someone who was very much an "outsider" in my childhood and teens. Be yourself and be proud of it and f--- the bullies who reject those who aren't like them.

And where does one often find such brutal Canonist? It crosses the line ...

 

[BetteTheRed]

Anxiety hangs out in your solar plexus; watch for it.

More about anxiety: biggest life waster ever.

 

[Luce NDs]

More about anxiety: biggest life waster ever.

Its about adhering to adherence ... meaning connections to something ... maybe other than self! Some people refuse any connections for fer of strange information and learning fresh stuff ... alter self? That'd be beyond much of what's out there ... boundary layer theory! Sometimes this is known as Wahl effect ... a scientific designation and thus denied by the stoic, pious, etc. They goes a lot and yet get nowhere ... hollowed efforts ... vacant?

Word play and the populace has been led to believe you cannot play with it ... Good Grief! Thus I remain ... non-existent! Anti existentialism? Look at that heis dune gone ... MS Pelt again ... harried ... as a busy hare ... all in a naught!

Some say a French Braid ... others a twist inna bun ... a bread form? Some boiled due to decrees against baking ... myths devolve about it ... prodigally ... it goes down in the past and thus forgot! Bureaucratic function ... politicians are on the fringe of the thing ... process is unlikely ... thus we are led to not think!

 

[Nancy]

There are certain things I would tell myself not to take for granted: the ability to run up and down stairs, the ability to RUN period, the ability to get in and out of a car easily.