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I’m turning 25 soon. Here’s the advice I’d give to my 18 year old self.
When you’re 18, you have it all figured out. You’re about to graduate from high school (if you still had the blessing of 9 years of secondary school education in Germany), or have already graduated. You’re in the middle of a new life, and everyone around you has it figured out too. Except for the fact that, well, no one does.
I’m turning 25 soon. And when you’re 25, you have it all figured out. Except for the fact that, well, you probably haven’t. I just wouldn’t know because I’m not 25 yet. Nevertheless, I seized the opportunity to take on the holier-than-thou attitude that adults sometimes have, and think about the advice that I would now give my 18 year old self.
Man, high school was a blast. Life was easy — and hard at the same time. The worries were just different. I was doing pretty decently in school, had just picked up playing Lacrosse — something I was (and still am) very proud of doing — and spent my days and nights partying, hitting the gym and playing League of Legends.
However, I probably would have spent them a little bit differently (and maybe even sometimes with a female specimen — I wasn’t very good with the girls) had somebody told me the following things. Here’s the advice I’d give to myself in 2011.
