Letter To High Schoolers All Over The World

Don’t diet. That girl from that magazine cover that you want to look like probably has a lot of mean producers/stylists/rich boyfriends telling her she is fat, and even if people tease you about your weight and you’d do anything o look like that girl, my guess is that you’re luckier than her because you can eat. So eat what you like.

Don’t dream about IIT or Harvard or anything like that when you’re still in school. Eventually, you’ll see that these are dreams that don’t leave you heartbroken when they get shattered. Its very likely you’ll go to a normal college with normal people whose IQs don’t fly over the roof, and when that happens, you’ll see its not so bad.

Don’t ever say ‘I hate my life’. There are people in your very school that have it much worse than you. You just don’t know it because they’re not as whiny as you.

Don’t every think of yourself as ‘edgy’. This might seem like stupid advice, but its true. Four years of high school have taught me this much- being edgy isn’t easy. Watching things that have drugs and sleazy violence in them does not make you edgy. Putting on black nail polish and dressing in black from head to toe does not make you edgy. Driving motor bikes really fast definitely does not make you edgy (it makes you stupid). If you really were ‘edgy’ and ‘different’, you wouldn’t have many friends because everybody would think you’re a freak.

Get yourself a real hobby, not just hanging out with your friends. When life gets bad, your hobby will help you deal. Trust me on this one. I know what I am talking about.

In every school, there are people who get talked about all the time. Even my school had those people. What they did was important for everyone to know. Incidentally, I got a chance to interact with some of them and guess what? Even they can’t stop talking about themselves. And they never try to really get to know anybody. Its as if they are addicted to the attention. Steer clear of these people before you turn into one of them.

The bimbo in the other class is going to have a boyfriend before you. The superficial jock who plays football will have a girlfriend before you do. None of these couples will. None of these couples will last.

If you’re a full-grown adult who is reading this, I think you shouldn’t be reading it at all because this post isn’t meant for you. If you’re a parent, I guess it’s good I gave you an idea about what school is like for kids these days. If you’re a kid, then again, you don’t need to read this. But if you really are a clueless teenager from an upper-middle-class family just starting out with high school, remember the things you read here. At the end of four years, you’ll be grateful you did.