05
Jun
Gisela De la Torre sent me an amazing video with a great message. I thought that it would be a great idea to share it on here. I heard the video and typed it. If you find inconsistencies, just let me know and I will fix it. I may have missed one or two words that I didn’t understand.
English version:
Ladies and gentleman of the class of 99. Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future. Sunscreen would be it. As long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists. Where the rest of my advice has no bases more reliable than my own unique experience. I will dispense this advice.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth or never mind.
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they fade it.
But trust me, in 20 years you will look back at photos of yourself in a calling away you can grasp now, how much possibility lay before you, and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagined.
Don’t worry about the future, or worry but know that worrying is effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4:00 PM at an idle Saturday. Do one thing everyday, that scares you.
SING.
Don’t be reckless with other people hearts and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.
FLOSS.
Don’t waste your time in jealousy, some times you are ahead, some times you are behind.
The race is long and at the end, it is only with yourself.
Remember compliments that you received. Forget the insults. If you succeeded in doing this. Tell me how.
keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
STRETCH…
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you wanna do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40 years old I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium….be kind to your needs…you will miss them where they aren’t.
Maybe you will marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you will have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you will divorce at 40, maybe you will dance the funky chicken in your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate your self too either.
Your choices are HALF CHANCE…so are EVERYBODY ELSE.
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can, don’t be afraid of it or other people think of it. it’s the greatest instrument that you will ever own.
DANCE…
even if you don’t have nowhere to do it but in your own living room…
read the directions, even if you don’t follow them
don’t read beauty magazine, they will only make you feel ugly.
(music playing)
Get to know your parents, you don’t know when they will be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings, they are the best link to your past. They are most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go with a precious few that you should hold on.
Work hard to reach the gaps in geography and lifestyle. Because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York city once but leave before it makes you hard, Live in Northern California once but leave before it makes you soft.
TRAVEL…
Accept certain and liable truths, prices will raise, politicians will filtrated. You too will get old, and when you do, you will fantasy that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealth spouse but you never know when either might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you are 40, you will look like 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice, the form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of dishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it is worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
