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Given the current circumstances of events. There truly isn’t any advice to give. Sometimes “living life” isn’t just defined by the fun times. Living life sometimes means watching the breakdown of the heartbreak that is life. One cannot know what is around the corner. It can be beautiful or it can be tragic. Truth is, til this day I just come to realize the true meaning of those age old adages. Who as a teenager heeded the warning of “Better safe than sorry”? Advice given to a teenager just falls on deaf ears. Life is uncontrollable, erratic, beautiful, tragic, but its randomness makes it delicate and that much more precious.

We should also consider the delivery of the message. Would I be appearing to my teenage self? I’d imagine that would have an explosive impact on my life. As a teenager I was never really scared of the dark or the likelihood of living in a matrix. I honestly, thought if I ever saw a ghost or a glitch in real life. That was it. I’d quit playing a preset role in society. No longer would I want to adhere to societal norms of subpar education, sky-high interest college loans, unattainable shelter, and be a cog in this billionaire-centered capitalist doom machine that is life. But where would that land me?

A. Mentally Insane
B. Homeless

Optionally in today’s times:
C. a Backpacker
D. a Social Media Travel Vlogger/Influencer

Honestly, I’ rather hear advice from my teenage self. And while I was troubled in my youth, I did have a different non-apologetic, rebellious care-free sense of being. Where “Better safe than sorry” wasn’t a critical warning but a a dare to challenge life and actually… well, live.