Now that I am 18, I feel like I have magically gained a lot
of life experience and that I should share this with the world. Some of my new found
wisdom is a little superficial but I think there is something to actually be
learnt amongst the nonsense. These are not necessarily things I regret or
things I would do differently, but they're just little pointers I think
everyone ought to know.
1. Alcohol is a great cure for feeling a little hung up on things; even if it
is a natural aphrodisiac (will smith opened my eyes to what an aphrodisiac was
when I listened to Summertime at just
11 years old, my poor parents)
2. There is no one else you should spend your
birthday with than your best friends and I sort of think that this applies for
every day off you have – even if you're going to have to get up at 8am whilst you're
on study leave; get up and go out - it will be worth it
3. Also get up at 7am and go to the damn library
and revise rather than just sitting on your ass for a week hating yourself and
worrying about how little revision you’ve done – you’ll feel a lot better for
doing it and being proactive
4. Just check the fucking weather forecast, for god’s
sake, just check it
5. Always carry a sanitary towel or a tampon in
that secret compartment in your bag – if not for you, for a friend in need
6. Enjoy whatever you want to enjoy because no one
can justifiably hate on you because you have a passion for something (to be
honest, I learnt this a year or so before I was 18 but it has been proven and
validated whilst I was 18 as well)
7. You should also stand up for yourself, if you
know you're right or feel so strongly about something, then you shouldn’t compromise
in order to conform to someone else
8. BOYS ARE LITERALLY SOME OF THE DUMBEST CREATURES
TO WALK THE PLANET AND THAT’S IN BOTH A PLANTONIC-DUMB-BUT-I-STILL-LOVE-YOU
KIND OF WAY, AND ALSO BECAUSE BOYS ARE NOT WORTH THE PROBLEMS THEY CAUSE (well
some of them)
9. Please please please just do your notes
consistently throughout the year and keep them organised, you will really
appreciate it when you come to revise and, although you can survive without
doing this, it makes things a whole load easier
10. Don’t get involved in things that don’t concern
you – sometimes its family issues and sometimes its problems your friends have
and the best way to go about these things is to give the best advice you can
but don’t be a bitch, and don’t stick your oar in when it’s not wanted or
needed
11. Put some serious effort into making a huge
playlist/masterpost of all your favourite songs on Spotify – when you have no
idea what you want to listen to, a playlist like this will be a lifesaver
12. Following on from this, learn the entire rap to
a couple of songs and when you go to parties or find yourself on a dancefloor,
you will super appreciate it because you will feel 😎 [sunglasses emoji]
13. Just hit send, stop pissing about and press send
14. If your friend recommends a film, write it down
in a note – it’s like when people say that you should always listen to a song if
someone specifically recommends it to you, the same goes for a movie. This person
thought that film would be right up your street; give it a watch
15. Make long term plans that will actually happen
and are feesable – whether it’s a little trip to the cinema, your friends
coming round to watch that film on Netflix you’ve been itching to watch, or a mini
holiday – you’ll have something to look forward to in the long term
16. If you're an arty person, buy a little journal
and draw in it, stick ticket stubs in it, tape old leaves in it, collect
stickers in it, save photos in it (or drawings of photos is good too) – and if you're
not an arty person; I don’t know go solve an equation or something
17. Invest in a portable charger, I cannot tell you
how many times that thing has saved my bacon at gigs or in the library or when
you forget to put your phone on charge overnight (and keep it charged even if
you have no immediate plans to use it!! you never know when you may need to grab
it before you dash out for a few hours on 19pc charge)
18. If you think something looks good fucking wear
it - if you feel great prancing about to that Spotify playlist at 11pm taking
selfies the night before, I can assure you that it looks just as good in the daylight
the next morning
19. Write letters when you stumble home from a party
after drinking a little too much red wine, the recipient might even keep those
letters and find them a year later or pin them on their dorm wall at uni. When you're
drunk this stuff comes straight from the heart and it’s totally unfiltered –
also don’t be afraid to redo something! You’ve already written a letter but
missed something you meant to say? Write another letter; what's the issue?
20. When revising; know when you need to take a
break, but don’t be making excuses for yourself left, right, and centre – yeah you
went to bed at 1am after watching a film on putlocker, but you knew fine well
you had to get up at 8am the next morning – you don’t deserve that lie in every
day of study leave.
21. T a k e p h o t o s , t a k e
l o t s o f p h o t o s
22. Be a little more observant and a little less
concerned about being doted over – your friends have issues too try and help
them (you can genuinely help someone and forget about your troubles for a bit
too), but don’t let yourself be ignored – friendship is a 2 way thing
23. Yeah it’s great to mix things up a bit, but
sometimes you can’t beat spaghetti bolognaise
24. “just fuck it” or alternatively “YOLO” is not
always the best policy, just trust me on this one
And last, but by absolutely no mean least, my life motto:
25. JUST DO WHAT U GOTTA DO
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