SHOWNOTES EPISODE 2:

Letter To Younger Me

 

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If I could say anything to 17 year old me, it would be this:

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1. Don’t be so scared. Don’t waste your days worrying about the next day, next month, 5 years from now. Just do what you can with today. Be what you are right now, and work with it. You’re exactly in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. Trust your story, you’re going to be something wonderful one day, but also are something now. Work with that.

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2. People are everything, take care of them and treat them like treasures that will be rarer and fewer with every passing year. I know you think this journey of yours is about making it on your own. That it's about proving that you can survive on your own, become on your own, live on your own. But you can both be fine on your own AND have people.
Don’t disappear into your solitude. Treasure people. They will give you stories, lessons, wisdom and growth. Let yourself be loved, and make people feel loved. That’s all there is.

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3. Embrace the unknown.
Learn to turn fear of the unknown into excitement for what can happen.
When faced with uncertainty, with worry, a problem or simply change, you have two options:
To resist it, to fight it and do everything to keep things are they are. To let the worry control you and lose yourself to fear.
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you can make the choice to greet it with open arms and an open mind. To say ”How exciting! What can this teach me? Where will this lead me?”
When you don’t know what’s going to happen: after college, at your new job, in a new country going after your dream .... everything can happen. Embrace uncertainty.

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4. Spend time with all kinds of people, they will teach you all kinds of lessons and unravel all parts of your hidden personality. If you only spend time with like-minded people you’ll never expand your way of thinking.

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5. Learn to let go.
People, seasons, cities and feelings will come and go. it’s the natural flow of life and nature, and you must be a part of it. Nothing is static and you don’t want to be, you want to learn to grow and flow with the seasons, being in constant movement. Learn to treasure what you what when you have it. When they leave you, learn to smile, say goodbye and move on being grateful that you now will go on being one experience richer.

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6. Learn to live on as little as possible. 
You don’t know it yet, but there is a great challenge waiting for you the next couple of years. You will know no home, you will know no safety, no calm embrace to greet you every night, promising that things will be fine. You will not make money from your dream, you will not be able to afford a room of your own. You will learn to eat close to minimum. 
This lesson will be the greatest of them all. The less you need, the freer you are, and the happier you will be. When your need for material possessions or an overflow of money on the bank account is erased, you will learn to go inwards to find the same comfort and calm. You will learn that when you can find yourself stripped of all your material possessions, and still feel inspired and content, you will go on well, no matter what. 

Lastly, live a little.
Put your feet up. Laugh, loud, with strangers and friends. Take a night off. Go to the party and stay the night. Let someone kind walk you home, a warm summer night in July. Let him ask whatever he wants to ask. Don't be so guarded. Everyone's not out to get you.

Go to the cinema, read more books, visit museums. This mission of yours is really nothing else but an experience, a collection of moments and thoughts, feelings and lessons. There is no "making it". You will never feel finished. You will always want more. And that goal you think you're working towards... it will change. It will die out, and something new will appear in your head. You're always gonna search and reach for something. So while you're searching and reaching for it, don't forget to live.

Don’t waste it being tired and scared. Say yes, say no, think with you heart and go against the current. 
Life will be as wonderful as you make it, but it’s up to you to make it so. It’s on your side, you know? You just have to join it.
 
 

 

MUSIC USED IN THIS EPISODE:

- Snowfall by Idealism  >>>

- Meet Me In The Morning - The Glass Child  >>>

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