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   Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 20:53:30 JST Tim 🎮

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   Especially appreciated: do you have high school age kids? Could you ask them what they'd want to hear from someone who finished school 20 years ahead of them? That'd be pretty awesome too.

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 20:53:30 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     @timixretroplays When I graduated high school I had a clear, impossibly ambitious vision of how I was going to change the world. When the original plan failed, I felt like a failure, but simce I've been happily doing a series of other things.

     I'd tell younger me to not expect life to be linear. Expect the road to wind.

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     Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 20:53:31 JST Tim 🎮

     So I ran into one of my old high school teachers this week, who recognised me immediately and, after a bit of a catch-up chat, suggested I should come back some time soon and speak to the current crop of soon-to-be school finishers about life after school and how things are going.

     The script in my head is already very "wear sunscreen", but: what advice would you give to 18-year-old yourself? What would you or your kids *want* to hear from future-you?

     Boosts and serious comments appreciated.