Don’t we all have things that we want to tell to our younger and older self? I do and sometimes I wish if I was as clearer as I am today. It’s true that with life experiences comes the maturity to handle things and it’s always good to let life teach us the lessons. Isn’t it?
Here are 7 things that I would like to share with the teenager Parul:
- Start a blog. Share your words with the world and you will love the joy it brings.
- Mistakes aren’t the end of the world. Learn from them.
- Give your 100% to whatever you do and life will become easy. Whatever is the result, you will be happy.
- Forget how you look. Looks don’t matter. Thoughts do.
- Believe in yourself. It’s the start of a beautiful life.
- Continue dreaming.
- Love yourself.
I have always been honest on this space so I should share that I have worked on myself over many years. I am still work-in-progress. There are still many things I can do to improve myself. Without getting into details, know that if the younger me was confident that the 30+ me will be as I am today (I would like to think I am doing well), she would have bunked a few classes, watched a few movies and took life lightly.
This is post #5 of the 2nd edition of #BarAThon.
happiness and food 
I think these are things each one of us would like to say to our younger selves.
Measured and meaningful, Parul. Just like you.
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Thanks Naba! ❤
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I love those things. So simple yet so very important.
Thanks for sharing, these I will remember 🙂
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Great advice to your younger self. Ah, the wisdom of age and experience. Nothing like it. I’m much more content now at 57 than when I was a timid and troubled teen always worrying and being overly sensitive about how others treated me taking it way too personally. If only we could go back and do it again with that wisdom, eh? On second thought. No thanks. Don’t want to be a teen again! In my twenties maybe. I had a fun time in my twenties!
Great post, Parul! Yayy! We’re almost finished the challenge. All the best!
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Enjoyed reading those 7 things to your younger self. I loved that picture of yours too, Parul. I don’t know if it experiences or age or maturity that makes us feel more self-assured and confident. Or it could be that we are ‘settled’ in our personal lives with a loving significant other and also are comfortable in our professional lives. Whatever it is, it is a good phase to be in. 🙂
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I know it, each of the points you have mentioned. Forget the looks as well the height is what I will also tell a teenager. Another thing I will tell myself is – Don’t listen to anyone, not even the parents when they fret over the short- sightedness and the short-heightedness.
That line about your thinking that you are doing well at 30+ is an absolute truth (you know best) and deserves to be highlighted instead of being striked out. Just do me a favour. Go to the edit window of this post and remove the strike and add the underline to it and make it bold. Let this add to your conviction.
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*Forget the looks as well the height is what I will also tell a teenager me. I missed the me 😀
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You look adorbs is a little young girl. Don’t we all want to say the same things to each other.
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Oh, I have so much to tell my younger self. I wish I could turn the clock and go back. There’s so much I’d have done diferently.
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So true parul, agree with you – I would say something like what you stated, may be with different expression. Now at the current age, there is faith, hope, courage and confidence to deal with life, which has been acquired over a period of time… loving self:) still work in progress 🙂 You look so simple and sweet, thanks for sharing !!
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Such great advice. I would definitely love to go back to younger me and shake her and yell no. 2 and 7 over and over. Lol
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Thoroughly agree with all points and would tell my younger self the same. 👍🏻😊
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I love this post and would probably say similar things to a younger me….in fact I am saying pretty much everything on your list to my teen daughter. I so wish that I hadn’t spent so much time worrying about things I couldn’t change….but as you say it is maturity that allows us to see these things.
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