Dear Teen Terra . . .
Well, I meant to post about this last week when it actually went up, but we had some technical difficulties here at terraelan.com, so it got delayed. (Everything is fixed now–yay!)
Regardless, I think the folks at Dear Teen Me are doing something pretty remarkable. For my teenager friends, I suggest you check out the site and just read some of the compelling entries. For my adult friends, I definitely recommend you give this a stab. Even digging up pictures of myself was interesting and insightful!
Here is the first bit of my entry. Click on this text to read the whole thing!
Dear Teen Me:
Let’s get the stuff I know you’re dying to know out of the way:
1. Your skin will get better. It’ll be after finding a good skincare regimen and growing out of those hormones, but it happens. If you can’t wait, then spend some of that restaurant job money on Dr. Haushka skin care products.
2. You will not always feel so bad in your body. Especially if you stop eating a dozen Fig Newtons while waiting for your mom to come pick you up from the pre-school job. With regular working out (which you actually like) and some mindful eating, you really won’t end up the behemoth you think you’re destined to be. Also, you aren’t fat right now anyway.
3. Waiting until college to Do It was a really, really good idea. And yes, you will one day be loved as deeply and passionately as you hope to be. More than once, actually, by some really interesting men. But your heart will never get broken as badly as it did that first time at the beach. (You know what I’m talking about, unless you haven’t gotten there yet, in which case pretend you didn’t read this part.)
Now for some other things . . .
Meanwhile, here are two weeks’ worth of Songs In My Head Upon Waking, since we didn’t have a post last week:
“U Got the Look,” by Sheena E; “Shadows of the Night,” by Pat Benetar; “Every Day is Yours to Win,” by REM; “Half of my Heart,” by John Mayer; “Half of My Heart,” by John Mayer*; “Can’t Say No,” by Helio Sequence; “Dream On,” by Massive Attack
“Dirt Off Your Shoulder,” by DJ Danger Mouse; “Lewis Takes Off His Shirt,” by Owen Pallett; “Little Lion Man,” by Mumford & Sons; “Read My Mind,” by the Killers; “Long Way Home,” by Tom Waits; “Uptown Girl,” by Billy Joel; Some beautiful instrumental song I don’t know the name of or who it’s by**
* Yes, that John Mayer was STUCK in there awhile.
** HATE when this happens.