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5 Things I Wished I Knew At 15 — Open Letter To My Younger Self
This is my open letter to myself at 15. I learned these hard lessons and hope my daughter never has to go through them.
I remember being 15 very well. I thought I had the world figured out, but I knew nothing. I was wet behind the ears, so full of life, but I wasted my years on people and things that don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
At 15, I wanted to be a writer. After I told my grandma, who raised me, she discouraged me. She worried I would never make a livable wage, urging me to go into nursing. If I had known I hated the medical field, I would have a journalism or a creative writing degree. Instead, I have a useless BSN, something I will never use.
I worried about things that didn’t matter. If someone at school were rude to me, it would ruin my whole week. I hadn’t learned not everyone would like you. Now, if someone doesn’t like me, I think that’s not my problem, and I don’t give it a second thought.
1. Time Gets Away From You
The biggest thing I would tell my former self is I may think I have so much time left, but time gets away from you. It seems like I was in college yesterday, but that was almost 22 years ago.
