What would you tell your younger self, if you could?

Me first: "You are not fat! Enjoy yourself."

(I am getting ready to go to the beach and I am squeezing my butt into a bikini that it shouldn't be in but, it's a wednesday at the beach, who am I gunna see?

I am running around looking for some kind of beach coverup and remembering me in in high school. I had a teeny tiny bikini with no supportive cups or full coverage bottoms and I wore a belly bracelet. A belly bracelet. I drew attention to my belly. But I still thought I was fat. I don't even think that belly bracelet would clasp now.)

Also: "Give a little more effort to your grades. You are smarter than you think."

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Take more chances!
Don't be so afraid!
Don't rush into things- be true to what you REALLY want.


Oh, to be able to talk to my 10 year ago or 5 yr ago self

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Be smart with credit

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Pay with cash

Wait on something for a month, if you still want it, then buy it

HS is only 4 short years of your life - the sh$t that happens there doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things

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-That guy you think is the be-all-end-all of things in the world at age 18 -- yeah he's not, you WILL love again...stop moping.

-Don't be a wuss---travel to anywhere you can and experience as much as possible

-Cut those credit cards up NOW

-Pluck your eyebrows for god's sake

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Give people a chance.
Give yourself a chance!
Relax!
Don't date him!

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You're not fat.

Don't be such a prude.........God, if I knew then what I know now .......!!

Go to Grad School immediately after Under Grad .........

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Stop dating that Jerk for 10 years

And save money!

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Stay AWAY from the credit cards!

SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE

Stop worrying about how you look... you will look back on "these" years and WISH you still looked that good.

Don't put up with his sh!t and stop thinking he is the most amazing thing EVER... BUT, do stay friends with him because if you don't you may never meet the love of your life

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You are not fat- give it ten years.
Don't care about what other people think and don't let them walk all over you

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yeah the fat thing - I don't think I will ever see my HS weight (b/c honestly 10 pounds heavier is still thin to me now!) - it was just hard with the pre-pubesant girls at 80-95 pounds - at 5'7" I was never going to be that!

other than that, I would have liked to travel a tiny bit more (I did a lot, but could have done more), live in another city - besides college, I didn't do that until late 20's, and let stupid things people say roll off your back.

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Alot of my younger self activities helped shape me into who I am today. I made lots of mistakes and learned alot of life lessons, I don't think I would change much. But if I had to give my younger self advice, I would make sure to take better care of myself, not smoke and live a healthy lifestyle.

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- i am not ugly!

- wait for the right thing

- go to college for what i want, not what my parents want

- travel before u get married

- be stronger than u r right now

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stop worrying about what people will think of you.

take yourself seriously --- at least once in a while -- you dont always have to try to make people laugh.

enjoy the simple things in life. material things do NOT determine who you are.

be nice to people, even if they arent in your group of friends.

marching band IS cool.


friends come and go but your family will ALWAYS be there.

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-you are not fat
-you are beautiful
-take what your mother says with a grain of salt
-listen more to your father
-finish school
-don't marry him (1st dh)
-laugh louder
-on 2-14-2001, don't go down the stairs at work... you're going to fall and break your ankle and you'll never be the same again.

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Isn't it sad what poor self esteems some of us had when younger?
I wish I could have seen then all I had going for me...

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-Have more fun

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go to empire (i hated suffolk and gave up for a few years until i found this college) now i'm back but i wish i would have pushed through then b/c i'd be just about done by now. better late than never but still.

and probably save more money - tuck it away.

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I actually would have told my younger self to join WW back in HS instead of after college....I wasted too many years being overweight and hating how I looked...I wasn't obese, but def. overweight and hated it.

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Stay in school to get your bachelor's (I only got an associates degree and totally regret it)

You are not fat

Save all the money you possibly can

Enjoy those boring summers, you are going to miss them when you are older

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DO NOT DATE ED!!!

Forget the full scholarship and go to a college that you want to go to - graduate on time.

She can't really hurt you.

You are not ugly, and you are not stupid.