One single piece of advice I would have given to my high school self:

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"You have to ask. If you don't ask, you won't get."

You still may not get what you want if you do ask, of course, but if you don't ask you almost certainly won't.

Comments

[allyphoe.livejournal.com]

Ah, but would you have listened to yourself? I tell my middle school daughter that all the time, and she still often won't ask.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Oh, certainly not. If I were the sort of person who'd have listened to me, I'd probably have already been asking. :)

[allyphoe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me either.