Is there something you regret not hearing at the time it was said to you?
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Don’t ever start smoking/ doing drugs/smoking weed. You’ll regret it later in life, especially when your old body fails you, particularly your lungs from smoking. Heed my advice while I hack up a lung…
Don't get those college credit cards. It will start your debts before you have a way to pay them...
Spend time thinking about what you want to do for the rest of your life.
I had depression and didn’t expect to live this long so I never thought about the future. Now I’ve switched majors twice and still hate what I’m going to have to do forever.
F*cking TAKE CARE OF YOUR TEETH. I'm out $500 so far and not even halfway through repairing what my younger self chose to neglect. Thankfully in my country, dental work is not insanely expensive... but it's still a lot of money.
Hi all, Kate here. Thanks for your responses and I sincerely hope that everyone struggling will find qualified solutions to their problems and in the meantime be gentle with yourself. You are worth the care. I found a quote from Gary Lew and I so wish someone shared this with me in my youth. “Go after what YOU want in life; otherwise you get what is left over.” Recently I shared my own thoughts with some college kids: as you go through life, however much control you have in your world, make smart choices so that you are never in a position where you have to say I don’t have a choice. Be well and find peace in every day.
Dad must have known my former roommate was a train wreck because he told me the day before I moved out, “You know, hon, you don’t have to go. You can stay home safely.” Wish I had listened to him.