If you could give life advice to a 16 year old, what would it be?

i always hear people older than me saying if i were your age i would've done things differently.If you could give life advice to a 16 year old, what would it be?
When you're young, you often can't see the bigger picture when you are making decisions and choices for your life. At the time, you think you're choosing the things that will best benefit you. But when you get old, you can look back and see the mistakes you made and how they impacted your life for many more years than you originally thought.





If I could give advice to a 16 yr old, I'd say--don't tie yourself down too young with a husband and children, and get your education and a career of your own, so you never have to depend on someone else to support you. Don't worry so much about what others think, because it is who you are that counts the most.If you could give life advice to a 16 year old, what would it be?
Stay away from drugs and outside influences. Go to school, work hard to aquire a skill. Don't follow other people but be true to yourself
I would tell them to try to have some perspective, not to take themselves too seriously, and to learn the art of apologizing.
1. Care about you intelligence. School alone doesn't cut it. Find subjects your interested in and go into that.


2. Stay away from drugs, smoking and alchohol abuse.


3. Stay with a good crowd.


4. Don't be mean to people unless they say something rude first. Try to show compassion to as many people as you can.


5. Don't be to materalistic. There is more to life then celebrities and clothing or being popular. Try taking walks in the wilderness (I means actualy wilderness, not an innter city park)


6. Be yourself


7. Show kindness to animals also.


8. Care about the wilderness and nature. Don't pollute. Don't be a pot smoking hippie either though. They just complain about problems and don't actually try to do anything about them.


9. Always keep an open mind but don't turn into a vampire wanna-be nutcase either. Find a middle ground. There is no such thing as magic, vampires, werewolves ect. but be open to the fact that there may be animals discovered that we haven't seen yet in the deep ocean or other places like that.
Be who you are. When I was 16 I walked into an empty room in my school one day and found a girl playing jazz piano. I was completely enthralled. I had never heard anything so amazing in my life. I was awestruck. I felt like someone had hit me over the head with a hammer. In that moment I knew I wanted to do what she was doing and I also knew I couldn't. I thought she had to be some kind of superior being and I could never do what she was doing. I was wrong. I have it in me. But I went a whole life time believing it was out of reach and I only took up the piano at the age of 50. Don't do what I did. Don't waste your life. Be who you are. Listen to your feelings and desires. They are the key.
There ... my blessing with thee!


And these few precepts in thy memory


Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,


Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.


Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.


Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,


Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;


But do not dull thy palm with entertainment


Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg鈥檇 comrade. Beware


Of entrance to a quarrel but, being in,


Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.


Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;


Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.


Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,


But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;


For the apparel oft proclaims the man;


And they in France of the best rank and station


Are of a most select and generous chief in that.


Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;


For loan oft loses both itself and friend,


And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.


This above all: to thine own self be true,


And it must follow, as the night the day,


Thou canst not then be false to any man.


Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!





-- William Shakespeare
think things through and make sure you have decided on the right decision you have made. If you are not sure ask someone for a different point of view on your decision and recheck your thinking about your decision.


If the other person agreed with your decision, you made the right choice in your thinking.
Don't ever take life seriously. Life gets better with age. Never form an opinion of something until you've actually tried it.
Live a little, have all the fun you can because soon enough you are going to have to grow up and get a full-time job like all the other adults in the world. I don't know that I would have done anything differently but i definitely would have experienced more. I'm not saying you have a lot of sex or do a lot of drugs but don't worry about the future so much, it's probably not going to be what you expect anyway.