Sunscreen

I'm sure you'll all recognize this "speech" because it was made into a song a few years back and has been e-mailed around like crazy. But I love it, and my friend Jenny gave me a book of it back when I turned 19 and I found it the other day and read it. And I still love it. So you should all read it....and listen to it/think about what it says.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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 restof my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy

the

P O W E R

and

B E A U T Y

of

your youth.

Oh, never mind.

You will not

understand the

power and beauty

of your youth

until they've

faded.

But trust me,

in twenty 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

f a t

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 bubble gum.

The real troubles in your life

are apt to be things that never crossed your worried

mind, the kind that blindside you at four P.M.

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 l-o-n-g 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.

s-t-r-e-t-c-h.

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 twenty-two what they wanted

to do with their lives.

Some of the most interesting

forty-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 seventy-fifth wedding anniversary.

ENJOY YOUR BODY. Use it every way you can.

Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it.

It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

D-A-N-C-E.

Even if you have nowhere to do it but your 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.

Understand that friends come and go,

but with a precious few you should hold on.

TRAVEL.

Don't expect anyone else to support you.

But trust me, on the sunscreen.