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Christopher
Pacific Northwest, USA
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Advice to Christopher, age 18 or thereabouts:
1. That camera you kept picking up and putting down in high school? Start picking it up again. Don't worry that things aren't in focus, or that you can't print to save your life. Technology will soon enable you to overcome your colossal technical ineptitude.
2. Don't exert all kinds of effort trying to fit in with the cool kids at the radio station. Scenesters and musical purists like R.I. and L.D. know jack shit about what is going on in the universe outside of one or two narrow musical genres, and won't enjoy much success in post-college radio life.
3. Things with T. aren't going anywhere, despite both parties alternately hoping that they will. Break up gracefully now, instead of messily in 1992, and start looking for folks that you share more in common with, eg., the young intense woman in English 210 and your 211 seminar.
4. Persist in speaking to S., even when the two of you repeatedly get off on the wrong foot.
5. Tolerate her goofy engineer boyfriend with the appalling Grapes of Wrath hair.
6. Go see that concert together, even though she remains with goofy engineer boyfriend. You'll both have a great time; looking back from twenty years out, it will remain fresh in both your (non-speaking) minds.
7. Don't be such a rabid fan of people, and don't ever confuse people with their work.
8. Don't switch into Fine Arts from English Honors, but spend some time browsing in the Fine Arts library.
9. Keep piling books up. Eventually you will leave the library and university, even though you feel right now as if you never will.
10. Don't sell your car. It will confine you to 10 years of public transit hell.
11. Spend less time brooding, and more time outdoors. Join a mountaineering club.
12. Your depression will lift in time. You are loved.
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