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Advice I Wish I’d Heard As A Teen
2 min readJul 3, 2021
- The things that happened to you as a child are not your fault. The things you do as an adult are.
- Persistence is at least as important as talent.
- The people you date are individuals. They are not characters in your story. They are the heroes of their own.
- It’s not only okay to tell your friends you love them, it’s healthy.
- When telling jokes, punch up, not down.
- You cannot fix someone’s life by dating them.
- You have to love who you are in the relationship at least as much as you love the other person.
- As much as the truth hurts, secrets hurt more. They’ve been given time to fester.
- Suffering does not ennoble. It’s just suffering.
- Hydrate often. Moisturize.
- Call out racism, sexism, and homophobia as often as you can. You only regret it when you don’t.
- Don’t stop singing, even if it’s only in the shower.
- Insecure people shut you down to flex their power. Secure people welcome your thoughts. Seek out the secure ones.
- When unhappy, escalation of the thing making you unhappy will only increase your unhappiness.
- The things that made you happy as a child have the…
