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Ryan Benjamin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
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Advice to Ryan Benjamin at Sixteen:
1+ Tell yourself and your friends to stop thinking about what you all are going to do when you get there, wherever it is. But what are you doing along the way?
2+ Don't forget that walk, in the snow, in the woods, with Jake. He will eventually kill himself and if you remember well enough, you will be the only one in that church with answers to a few questions. But not all the ones you want.
3+ You are going to get what you think you want in time. Rest easy. REST EASILY. Later in life, you'll realize settling down could've waited. But it's up to you to realize how to work long-term without dropping the anchor. And how uncomplicated it has to be.
4+ A relationship isn't everything. You'll never fully understand this, at any age, really. But if you could start living with this idea at sixteen, you may be much further along.
5+ You don't need prompts. Stop asking for ideas. Where did your brain go? You may have lost it in a textbook.
6+ You are going to say "I love you" too many times to one person who echoes it but doesn't necessarily want to. Kind of like a cave, but more modern. I'm not telling you not to do it, but be ready when you don't understand why you shouldn't have said anything, and how you ended up in the southwest alone on weekday afternoons.
7+ Keep on thinking that your parents are the greatest people you'll meet. You won't be wrong.
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