Advice from a 16 year-old

Dear my future self,

I'm not going to specify the age you're going to read this at, because does it really matter? I don't know what's coming when anyways so I might as well write this generally.

I sure hope that at whatever point you're reading this, you've figured out what you want to do with you life. If you're still babysitting to make money, quite frankly you need to leave the computer right now, get off your butt and do something about that. If you've advanced past that, congratulations. I really didn't know if that would ever happen so...bravo. Maybe you've chosen to do something with environmental engineering like you told everyone you were thinking about, when you really had no idea. Maybe you became a journalist like you thought Freshman year. LOLJK, we both know that didn't happen. Eh, as long as you're not still living with your parents, which you definitely are not.

I guess there's really not a whole lot of suggestions I can make to you right now, being 16 and generally apathetic, confused, and quite exausted, but if you haven't already, you need to do everything on the following list absolutely as quickly as you possibly can.

-Get your ears pierced
- Leave the country (that one time you were in Canada for about 5 minutes really doesn't count)
- Go to more concerts (This isn't a suggestion, this is concrete command. You remember how much fun you had at the Ellie Goulding concert.)
- Meet Darren Criss somehow
- Get your left, right, and center splits completely flat
- Give bangs a try
- Click here and do one of those things

Don't try to be hipster. It looks like a lot of work. And please, please, PLEASE, learn to cook more that something from a box. It's disgusting how little you can make. I mean yay for defying gender stereotypes and feminism and all that, but really. Eat some decent food. How about discovering a new source of renewable energy. It'd be nice if you did that.

I don't know what else to say. You're going to be able to give me more advice than I can give you so, come and visit some time. Time travel has been invented by now, right? If not, add "Kidnap Dr. Who" to that list up there.

Sincerely, 16 year-old you