If I could go back in time and impart some wisdom on my teenage self I would tell her to dump her boyfriend and stop thinking about boys all together. Teenage boys don’t really contribute much to a successful woman’s life.
I would tell myself that I needed to do better in school and not waste my mind. Towards the end of high school I gave up on really trying to be amazing and settled for just scraping by. I’m not sure what was going through my mind… but I’m sure it had something to do with my oh so important ‘relationship’… I cringe just thinking about. I wonder if I will even allow my children to have relationships in high school. They might hate me for it at the time but I’m sure they will thank me for it in the long run.
I would tell myself to treasure the solitude that I sometimes had. Read more. Laugh more. Get off of MySpace and FaceBook. Ignore the idiots and stop thinking that they really matter in your life. Stop thinking that you hold less value than the other girls who have boys constantly chasing after them. As you grow, you will realize that those boys are still just that, boys. The majority of them still live in Aurora, with crappy jobs, multiple baby mamas, and it’s a wonder anyone found them desirable at some point.
The biggest thing I would tell myself… KEEP WRITING. The more you write the better you’ll be. Read, write, and focus on your dream. Don’t go to college with the intention of becoming a lawyer just because it sounds better than going for a creative writing in fiction degree.
Oh, if I could go back in time…
This post was a prompt from Mama Kat’s Writing Workshop.
I would have appreciated you sharing some of your wisdom with my high-school-self, too! 🙂 I guess it’s good that we know this now … there is a benefit to some maturity! 🙂
Visiting from Mama Kat’s 🙂
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Maturity is one of the positives to being an adult. Unfortunately not everyone matures… 🙂
I could have written this post.
Darn those boys for being so cute and stupid me for allowing myself to settle for “just scraping by” in school.
Imagine what I could have learned for FREE in high school if I had just paid more attention in class.
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Haha now we get to pay a ton of money for college to be refreshed on what we should’ve learned in high school.
Oh I WISH I had the boy problem in school!! Not on single boy ever liked me in school.
Stupid annoying boys.
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I didn’t have very much attention either. But what I did have… I should’ve done without.
I am so glad Facebook and Myspace didn’t come around til after high school. I think today would be harder to be a teenager because of all the social media. It’s like there are too many places out there to flaunt your immaturity and mistakes. Scary.
Of course, we had instant messenger, and that definitely did get me into trouble 😉
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Yeah they got popular in my later years in high school and they still managed to create trouble. Instant messenger got me into some trouble as well 😉
Teenage girls everywhere need to read this!
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Teenagers never listen. They know it all. 😉
I’m going to check back in when your kids are in high school and see how you going with that “no relationships” rule!
High school is such a minefield isn’t it? The academic side of things is such a minor part – there’s all that growing up, finding your place, negotiating relationships (both platonic and not) – it’s a wonder any of us survive it.
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Haha I’m pretty sure if the rule sticks there will be a lot of “I hate you” being thrown around. But, they would surely thank me in the long run… right? 🙂
I hear ya…I was WAY too boy crazy back in the day and wasted too many tears on douche bags!!