Dear Me
Inspired by a new featuring letters of advice written by the celebs to their 16 year old selves, , packed with a lifetime of experience -- including, ". . . Socks: buy ten pairs of black cotton socks and ten woollen; and stick to black for the rest of your life, saving hundreds of hours trying to match odd socks."
Which, in turn, inspired Talk Back listeners to construct this letter: each sentence was submitted to the programme by text message.
Dear Me,
If your fuel light comes on, fill up the tank straight away, or you will run out. Never lose your childlike sense of fun.
If you jump on the haystack often enough you will eventually find the needle. What does not kill you makes you stronger. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Measure twice, cut once. Never say you are going to try, just do it. Try-ers don't succeed, do-ers, do. Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
The only people that fear power are those that dont have it. Think big and you'll be big.
Marry the woman (or man) you want not the one your mother wants. Live every day as your last because some day it will be your last.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. Wear sunscreen.
Yours sincerely,
Me
Comment number 1.
At 17th Nov 2009, graham veale wrote:"Never say you are going to try, just do it"
Texted in by Yoda, presumably.
'Do, or do not...there is no try.'
God bless you, George Lucas!
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Comment number 2.
At 17th Nov 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Dear Young git,
Take care of your teeth.
Learn to dance. (Ballroom dancing. Not that embarrassing nonsense in which drunken white men indulge).
Never, ever, moon a werewolf.
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Comment number 3.
At 17th Nov 2009, graham veale wrote:Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is
Named must your fear be before banish it you can
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering
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Comment number 4.
At 17th Nov 2009, graham veale wrote:Advice to self. Move to USA, and remember...
when you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk...
...collect blondes and bottles...
but
...in this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women...
...if a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man...
...what one man can do, another can do...
and
...man who catch fly with chopsticks accomplish anything...
but
...we're all put to the test, but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer...
so
...you've got to ask yourself one question: do I feel lucky? ...
now
...there is a difference between knowing the path and walking it...
so
...I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them...
...when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around...
...deserve's got nothin' to do with it...
finally
...Some day this country's gonna be a fine, good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.
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Comment number 5.
At 17th Nov 2009, romejellybean wrote:Is this like the bit on the News about The Queen and her corgies? Or the Bingo in the Sun - a bit light relief before we get back to the thinly veiled racism, sexism and prejudice?
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Comment number 6.
At 18th Nov 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Yes.
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