sunscreen

I visited a certain blog yesterday and I came across this video from youtube. The content was a little bit familiar though. I guess I've heard it or read it somewhere else... I just can't recall where.
Anyway if you visit youtube try to search for 'everybody's free to wear sunscreen'. You maybe find it soppy or it may inspire you but for me? It inspires me.
Some of my fave lines...

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to 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 year olds I know still don't.

- I especially love this line because I can relate to it. I admit that I feel bad not knowing what to do with my life.
I'm 24 and still I'm wondering where I'm leading. Sometimes I envy those who know what they really want. Some have already plans as to what they will be in the years to come.
If I'm gonna ask myself what I'll be 3 years from now, I would not be able to answer it or if I could give an answer it would be 'I don't know.'
Sometimes how I wished I could go back and planned something for my life. But if I could just unwind the hands of time, maybe I would still not know it.
Funny how my friend told me yesterday about his plans in life. That in a certain time he will be able to be what he wants. Good for him I guess.
I remember a year ago, while I was out of job, I would often go to the beach to unwind and think about my life, asking myself where would I be in the years to come.
Maybe I'm just being worried and paranoid...

Well, I guess maybe life is really like that... sometimes...it's just so confusing...

What else can I do? Maybe it's just me being me. That's just the real me I guess... confuse and lost... well, it's not that bad to be like me =)...anywayz....

Maybe when I'm 40 life is still interesting... see I'm being optimistic...
Maybe a year or two I'll read this and see what I have become or better yet someone would really be kind enough and remind me this.


Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Yeah right... but I still wanna get married and have children and grandchildren. I still wanna grow old with the person I love.



Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Certainly. No one else can give you true and unconditional love than your parents. Treasure them.
I've never been a really good daughter especially when I was a kid. I guess I've never really shown my father how much I love him.


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(here's the complete copy I found in google)

Everybody's Free
(to wear sunscreen)
Mary Schmich
Chicago Tribune

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97... wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are NOT as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.


Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.


Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed 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 want to 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 year olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in 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 inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize 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'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.