Mine:
- Learn a second language and keep up with the language your parents speak. You will regret being a brat about not wanting to speak this language especially as your family members pass.
- The only opinions about you that really matter are from the people you respect and who respect you back
- Being a kind humble person, who leads their political convictions with curiosity and not self righteousness is important. As that one person said: “I am no hero and neither are you.”
- Don’t throw out your old media (mix cds, tapes, records, photos, zinee, etc) because you think they’re embarrassing. They either will not be embarrassing later or they will become expensive and you can tell them for mad bucks.
Let me tell you about some fun I’ve had twice now:
Some of a tooth snaps off. You go to the dentist, “Yep, that needs to come out.” You schedule an appointment with a dental surgeon. On that day, what’s left of the tooth is torn out of your face, and a titanium drywall anchor dusted with cadaver bone is forced into the hole. You spend a couple months with a titanium cap sticking out of where your tooth used to be. Once it’s healed enough, you go back to the dentist and the titanium cap comes out and they bolt a fake tooth to the implanted anchor, which hurts a part of your body that has never felt sensation before so it feels like it’s 3 feet behind your head. And now one of your teeth is ceramic, weirdly numb, and food can get stuck under it.
Others in here have said “brush your teeth” but one of mine broke because resorption. The tooth hollowed itself out from the inside, for no apparent reason. So, don’t randomly lose the tooth lottery either.