Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97... wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are NOT as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

tain inalienable truths, prices

" Get up and go to school tomorrow; take a good look at the faces around you. the ones you haven't seen lately, the ones you don't usually notice, the ones whose faces you think you already have memorized and understood. take a good long look at each of those faces, and realize that there is a hell of a lot more to those people than you could ever guess. take a minute and just try to imagine the secrets that they have to keep hidden. what they struggle with every day, unbeknownst to you or to the rest of the world. that maybe there is a reason for the way they act, or that they are stronger than you think they are, or that they just might be living a life more similar to yours than you ever thought possible. for once in your life, do not judge. do not be superficial, do not make assumptions, do not guess. just look. because while you are busy obsessing over your own battles, your own hardships, your own issues-- you forget that other people have them, too. and that sometimes all it takes is one person who is willing to look deeper than the surface, one person who can put his or her own fears aside and recognize the fears in others."
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If we go down we go down together, best friends means best friends forever.
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Let's be nothing, I've heard it lasts forever
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 If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them,I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

Hi chappies
I'm well chuffed because I just got the soundatlas cd and it rocks! The song that I really wanted is on there which I am well excited about. Yesterday was fun. I went job hunting with Sophie and Emily into town. We went like everywhere. I went into Gap and they said you have to apply online. So i get home log on and there is vacany for sales assisstant in Brighton so I'm filling out the application form and then it says 

'Do you have proof that you are 16?'
And i'm only 15 but will be 16 this month!! So I'm hoping the place will still be vacant by the 23rd of April!!

Anyways speak soon

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 70% The Flash 65% Supergirl 62% Robin 60% Superman 55% Catwoman 55% Batman 45% Hulk 45% Wonder Woman 37% Green Lantern 30% Iron Man 20%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

I’m an absolute worldclass twat

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not out darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?” Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let out own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-          NELSON MANDELA

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

-          NEIL GAIMAN

Because maybe, you’re gonna be the one that saves me…

 But probably not that would be way too fucking easy

And we can’t have that…

- you know you’re in love, when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams

- can we stay in this moment forever?

- I could be in a room with a 100 guys and you’d still be the only guy on my mind

- Lost in love with you

- Rather waste some time with you

- So there’s this boy and he kinda has my heart

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!