One of the things \u2013 in the last decade or so, I don\u2019t know \u2013 that\u2019s become really popular is asking people what advice would you give to your younger self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve never understood that question, and furthermore, I\u2019ve grown to hate it. Like seriously, why are you giving advice to someone you will never be again? Now that I\u2019m writing this, it just dawned on me that perhaps that question\u2019s not meant to benefit you, but the people who are currently the age of the self you\u2019re giving advice to. Maybe the concept was derived from a therapist trying to help their patient make peace with a turbulent time in their past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like I said I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every time that ridiculous question (at least I think it\u2019s ridiculous) is asked of me, I always have the same simple answer: nothing. Everything I like about myself today, I consciously cultivated when I was 17. So I like my younger self, flaws and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If anything my younger self needs to be givin\u2019 advice to the current me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My younger self would believe more in my writing. She would fight harder for my dreams. She would be bolder and more fearless. She would take more risks like it ain\u2019t no thing. She had faith that\u2019d make an atheist believe Jesus is King (she wouldn\u2019t worry about whether or not people will recognize that with that last line I took creative liberties).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But as I\u2019ve gotten older and my loss column seems to have outnumbered my wins, no matter how many wins I rack up, slowly but surely, I\u2019ve managed to lock her up. Her voice silenced by a series of life\u2019s disappointments, further imprisoned by my own complacency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet sometimes when I reminisce on how awesome she was, I\u2019m reminded that she is me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the things \u2013 in the last decade or so, I don\u2019t know \u2013 that\u2019s become really popular is asking people what advice would you give to your younger self. I\u2019ve never understood that question, and furthermore, I\u2019ve grown…<\/p>\n