To wonder what you would tell your teenage self?

[user1473509591]

This thread has probably been done before but I'm just curious. Was listening to an old play list that I used to live at 15 and it's amazing how angsty I used to be (Papa Roach - Last Resort used to be like the soundtrack of my life). Ide tell myself that it'll be okay. Mental health will always be a part of my life, but I'll learn to cope with it better. Don't move out, go to uni.

Don't worry that you have no tits, one day they will be so mahoosive they will enter the room minutes before you do.
Your mother is a vile dick, don't wait til your forties to finally get over it and stop it from ruining your life.
Yes there's been a few frogs but one day you will meet your prince (actually given his pouchy face and cushiony belly it's more the other way round, but ykwim)

Party every chance you get.

Forgive people, holding grudges makes for a lonely life.
Be adventurous, take chances, trust yourself.

He's worked his way around virtually everyone you know, be the one who he doesn't manage to get drunk and take advantage of flatter into bed

Things get so much better. You'll go to Sixth Form and things will get a bit better, and then you'll go to university and it'll get loads better.

You aren't fat.
You can dance, a bit, no one will laugh.
Be braver. Don't sit back and hope someone asks you to join in.

Your boyfriend who seems kind but so laid back, who you worry about being a perpetual poverty stricken student? It's ok, he grows up and co- runs a multimillion pound company, is a complete workaholic, and will still adore you in 25 years time.

Value education, stay on at school and do the A levels that the teachers believe you'll have no problem achieving.

Stay. Away. From. HIM. RUN! Do NOT waste 7 years of your young life on this waster! You should have left when the first raft of lies were found out and took up that unconditional university offer in another country!
Yes, your mum is lovely and there for you when nobody else was, but you should not have let yourself be so cossetted - you should have asserted your independence much younger and in a non teenage wangst way.
Don't make mountains out of molehills and sweat about the small stuff so much...
...As you'll be like the girl who cried wolf when the worse stuff happens.
But you WILL get over it and come out stronger.
Kill the procrastination and knuckle down to some serious study - it gets harder if you leave it until adulthood.
Carving out your own identity means so much more than dodgy fashion choices and bad hairstyles, but on that note - step away from the wacky hair dyes and crimpers!
Keep some things to yourself as they will be used against you.
Accept yourself for who and what you are - you were always viewed as a bit of a rebel anyway.

"Meeting the love of your life and Travelling the world doing stuff are not mutually exclusive. You can do BOTH. And since a DC is not going to put in an appearance for 11 years you have time on your side. Run away together, now"
If you asked DH this same question, he'd give exactly the same response. Biggest regret of our life. We met at 16 and felt pressured to do the whole - finish education, land job, buy flat, get married, live in domestic bliss till DC come along. Most of that was done and dusted by the time we turned 22, with a 5 year hiatus till dc1 turned up.
33 years on we still really love each other. There's no-one I'd rather spend my time with, in bed or out.
But we both turn 50 next year, and youngest DC will turn 16 and can be abandoned! Who knows what's round the corner!
[starts googling camper vans and checking what we'd get if we rented the house out...]

I feel a bit bad now. My disclaimers -

1. We've travelled plenty but with a firm focus on what the DC would enjoy/find educational.
2. I shan't abandon the 16 yr old. She's just slowly regaining Human Status after the terrible teens. I wouldn't want to miss her first 'I've tidied round, emptied the dishwasher and put some dinner on for us'

Don't do one night stands. They will make you feel like shit and you won't get anything out of them. Value yourself and wait for a guy who is crazy about you and you about him. Slow down!