checkin up

Hey, its me or actually you. weird huh? yeah well im here to check up on you to see how your doing. so how are you doing? i bet it doesnt seem that long ago that you wrote this. but it was you were 14!!! and going to be 15 soon! when you get this you will be 25. out of college (unless your a doctor that is then you still got a looooooooong way to go. SORRY!) so hows the love life? your not still a virgin are you? i hope not. i hope you lost that about 5 years ago. you have a girlfriend? maybe a wife... little rushed were you? any illegitimate children? job? you better not still be living with mom and papa. so where are you living? seattle? LA? New York? some awsome place in Europe? or CANADA? there are some things i want to know about in 10 years... they say that technology doubles every 18 months so how cool are ipods now? what are you doing for your birthday? hanging out with friends i hope! you better still be friends with daniel, jamie, holly, robby, emily, amia, and kyle. are you? if not what happened? if not CALL THEM THIS INSTANT!! IF YOU DONT HAVE THEIR NUMBER GET IT!!! i dont care what you have to do call them! they are awsome. that is unless they did something to deawsome them. thats not even a word but who knows maybe in 10 years it is. pretty much the point of this letter is to say. have fun. like your job. if you dont. quit. get a girlfriend. unless you have one then... DONT have good friends. take care of yourself. i want to live for a while. you are only 25 once. HAVE FUN you are only young once. ENJOY IT. the rest of this is a song that i hope you are following and paying living by Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99 (screw '99 haha, '09 is where its at) If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you imagine. Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you Sing Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.. Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. But trust me on the sunscreen… and in the words of the oh so ever nike (he whatever happened to livestrong braclets. how screwed up is britney spears's kid also? hes only eleven but i bet hes weird.) back to what i was saying in the words of nike JUST DO IT