6 Things I Wish I Could Tell My 14-Year-Old Self
#2- What you do with your time matters
My teenage years were essentially a big mess of contradictory feelings and existential crises. Like many, I’m sure.
I went through periods of joy, depression, anxiety, and hope.
There are a lot of things I regret about this time of my life, mostly things that I didn’t do rather than things that I did.
I was the stereotypical shy kid who was pretty good at school and always listened to what teachers and adults told me. I was never really someone who had a lot of friends. I never took many risks. I liked my comfort bubble of surviving the school day and coming home to play video games the whole night.
Now I’m older, and starting my journey into the real world. I’m just as lost as I was back then, to be honest, but with a lot more responsibilities and a lot less free time on my hands. Now, I have to take my life a lot more seriously than I did back then.
I’m about to turn 22 (still very young I’m aware), and this got me thinking about what advice I might give myself 8 years ago, now that I have the wisdom of those years behind me. I’m sure that when I’m thirty I’ll write something similar about my 22-year-old self, but for now, teenage Owen, here are some little snippets of…
