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What a great question. I think depending at what point you asked, the answers could be very different. I know there was a point at 19 or 20 that I was like, “What are you doing? This is not what we had discussed?!” My mid twenties to mid thirties were amazing. Right on track being healthy, vegetarian, living for the world not myself, writing, submitting, meditating, giving… being happy. My 15 year old self wanted to hang out with me then! The last 5 years I have tanked under the pressure of mothering troubled kids and missing my own Mama. But as I start to climb back up it is that knowledge that things continually evolve that let me know that my high spirited, happy, authentic self is right around the corner waiting to be found again. I’ll just keep dodging my inner 15 year old til I catch up!
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Ahhhh. As a teenager I wanted to run my own ad agency in Manhattan (I watched bewitched too!). Amazingly, I think I’m not too far off the mark either. I founded my own company (a web startup), I’m the head designer and am living in a major city (not NY, Rome… Italy).
Now if my EIGHT year old self could see me now, she’d be disappointed. She wanted to be an astronaut.
Oh well, can’t please them all. Cheers!
Wow, Tara. Rome? Sounds awesome to me! I think your teenage self would be pretty pleased. And just tell your 8 year old self that she can eat all the spaghetti she wants in Italy. She’ll get over the astronaut thing. Trust me. ha ha
Fantastic question. My teenage self would ADORE me
I hope you don’t mind but I totally used your question to write my own post. You. are. inspirational.
But I didn’t write it on my main blog, because I’m sneaky like that. Bwahahahahaha!
I’m sure your teenage self would adore you. I adore you! And you are more than welcome to use my question in your post. BUT you have to tell me where it is. You can’t leave me hanging!! So email me, dang it!
Aha. I found it.
Curious to see what Miss Jenny Decki had to say? Read it here: http://badmommyblogger.com/108/my-teenage-self-would-adore-me/
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