[fotomoose]

I'm currently doing a project called 50x50, wherein I plan to ask 50 people aged 50:

What advice would you give to yourself aged 20?

The answers (if any) given here will not be used in my project as it's a photography project and I wish to take portraits of the participants, I just thought I would ask it here to see what kind of answers I might expect.

Thanks.

Edit: can't edit typo in topic header...annoying!

[walking tourist]

I am 55.
Advice to the 20 year old me:
Do not even think of journalism school!!!! Your career will tank before it begins! You'll be sorry (and poor)!
Take the money that you would have used on that ill-advised journalism school and travel the world. Learn foreign languages. Explore your artistic side. Be happy. Be creative. And don't try to be your older sisters. You will never succeed at that.

I'm currently doing a project called 50x50, wherein I plan to ask 50 people aged 50:

What advice would you give to yourself aged 20?

The answers (if any) given here will not be used in my project as it's a photography project and I wish to take portraits of the participants, I just thought I would ask it here to see what kind of answers I might expect.

Thanks.

Edit: can't edit typo in topic header...annoying!

[jonamelio]

Do what you really like. Take chances. Have adventures. Be true to yourself. It's all about relationships, not material possessions or status. Life goes by more quickly than you realize, so savor the moments.

[Dalien]

Don't get so caught up into thinking that you have to have a relationship in order to survive.

But, I did do what I wanted to do. As always! :)

[au contraire]

The world will not just fall into your lap, Dreaming Grasshopper.

[EdR]

Being the most intelligent and most capable player at the table is not good enough. You have to be the smartest player.

[entpIdeas]

Do everything exactly the same, because the joys and the hardships endured, the mistakes and victories will together develop your character and integrity. Those very things and nothing short of experiencing them will make you the woman you will become, and you would never want to be anything else. Oh, but think twice about that tattoo you got when you were 22.

[tallgirl]

If you are lucky, you will live to be 50 years old with all of your parts in good working order. Don't assume that you won't make it past 70, because if you do, you'll wind up being 50 years old with extra aches and pains that you don't need to have.

When you have children, enjoy as much time as possible with them when they are young, because when they are older, they will think you are old, dull, boring and wrong.

Reconnect with and listen to your parents. The 20's are a great time to discover they were right, because the 50's are a bad time to discover that you miss them after they are dead.

[Sily]

Enjoy the ride.

...and I did.

[Devalight]

Please don't marry that guy you will meet in three years.