So the last few years have been a little difficult for you haven't they! Trying to pass exams, finding out who you are and finding out who you can trust. The best piece of advice I think I can give you which I have learnt over the last 2 years is to not worry so much about trying to fit in! Use your head and your heart, you know who your real friends are and they will help you through the next few months. I'm afraid you are going to struggle with depression for the next 4 or 5 months, it will seem like everyday you just can't see a way out but I know that if you put even more focus into helping others and you really push yourself to overcome your fears everything will be amazing!
Dear Me
Look at you, angry at your parents, your friends, your teachers. Thinking the world has let you down. You think everyone is being difficult but the truth is, you do need to study more, and think about boys less, (because believe me there is plenty of time for that).
You are beautiful but relatively short and a bit too thin. You feel awkwardness about your body, like the bits don’t really fit together. Try and enjoy what you have been given, because down the track you will grow into yourself and develop beautiful womanly curves which you won’t like either.
You are beautiful but relatively short and a bit too thin. You feel awkwardness about your body, like the bits don’t really fit together. Try and enjoy what you have been given, because down the track you will grow into yourself and develop beautiful womanly curves which you won’t like either.
Dear Geta
You have just finished high school and are looking forward with excitement and trepidation to going out into the big wide world and starting university.
During your first semester, treat it just like school. Be there most of the day. Don’t take on too much. Find a part-time job as soon as you can and save like hell. Don’t let your parents ever get their hands on your money. Never disadvantage yourself financially for the benefit of your parents or anyone else.
During your first semester, treat it just like school. Be there most of the day. Don’t take on too much. Find a part-time job as soon as you can and save like hell. Don’t let your parents ever get their hands on your money. Never disadvantage yourself financially for the benefit of your parents or anyone else.
Dear Me
Today, another spot. Bugger it!! And tomorrow, another audition. It seems like all I seem to be doing is going to go-see's. I'm sixteen, and I've been in show biz for a whole bloody year.
So, I audition for a play. In South Yarra, Melbourne, and it's called a Bunch of Ratbags.
That sounds like me. I have to read, cold read, this embarrassing monologue about pubic hair. Which I'm discovering in all the oddest places. Around my willy, balls. Wow. So I can relate.
But I don't get cast.
So, I audition for a play. In South Yarra, Melbourne, and it's called a Bunch of Ratbags.
That sounds like me. I have to read, cold read, this embarrassing monologue about pubic hair. Which I'm discovering in all the oddest places. Around my willy, balls. Wow. So I can relate.
But I don't get cast.
Dear Me
At 16 you’ve not really discovered who you are but fear not as you will soon. Don’t be afraid of 6th Form, Uni, Boys, Sex etc etc – the next few years will be the best. You’ll find new friends and find yourself. Then Uni will beckon and you’ll love that soooooo much more than you could imagine (and you won’t really miss home!). One small piece of advice (although I know you won’t listen) - study hard and don’t drop Maths.
Dear Me
Yes, a tough 16th birthday, I know. Right now, you're living away from home, just a baby, doing stuff you hate doing. You don't have a clue what you want to do with your life, do you? 16 feels like it should be a good time, but it isn't...
The most important thing you need to know, right now tho, is that I totally love you. It might seem to you that I don't, but I really do. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better... you're going to do a bunch of really stupid things, but you will survive + that's the main thing. You'll realise that every apparently crap thing that ever happens to you is to show you how many people are there for you + love you as much as I do.
The most important thing you need to know, right now tho, is that I totally love you. It might seem to you that I don't, but I really do. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better... you're going to do a bunch of really stupid things, but you will survive + that's the main thing. You'll realise that every apparently crap thing that ever happens to you is to show you how many people are there for you + love you as much as I do.
Dear Leonard
As I am on my 44th year and 362nd day it seems a good time to talk to my sixteen-year-old self.
What an adventure you were about to begin. You knew that the very act of getting your first passport at sixteen was going to be just the start of getting away from Edinburgh. In your sixteenth year you had your first flight, your first trip abroad, your first full time job and your second trip abroad, but the first all on your own. You also managed to fail nearly all of your ‘O’ level exams – but hey, travelling was going to educate you.
What an adventure you were about to begin. You knew that the very act of getting your first passport at sixteen was going to be just the start of getting away from Edinburgh. In your sixteenth year you had your first flight, your first trip abroad, your first full time job and your second trip abroad, but the first all on your own. You also managed to fail nearly all of your ‘O’ level exams – but hey, travelling was going to educate you.
Dear Dan
Written 17 Jan 2010, London
To be delivered 17 Jan 1996, Nottingham
You are in the first year of the sixth form, studying Maths, Further Maths, Physics, and Computing. You won’t get any cleverer, but you’ll become a lot wiser by the time you’re 30.
Your life will change forever on 18th September 2002, but you won’t realise how much for many years after that. I was about to suggest how to cope with that change and how you could deal with it sooner rather than later, but maybe that would be unhelpful. If you aren’t ready to face that change when it happens, then maybe waiting for the right time is all you can hope to do. Fair enough; that’s what I did. In fact, mostly I’m still progressing very cautiously.
Dear Me
There is actually very little I want you to change. Even the bits when you completely fucked up were sorted in the end. The logical part of me would suggest you spent a little less of your 6th form humping, and a little more of your 6th form studying. But had I done that, I would not have met our husband and we would not be now living in New York with him and our fantastic 4 children.
Dear Bex
I know you're angry inside & don't know who to tell. Your dad is different & you'll take a long time to accept it. I struggle even at 30. Don't worry about what other people think, if you start to accept it, it will feel like the hardest thing, but it will be liberating. He/She is still your dad, and does love you.
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