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What advice would you give your teenage self?

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GigiGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 01-Oct-14 16:14:35

Do you want your advice & portrait to be immortalized forever as part of a new nationwide photo project for Gransnet?

Based on an earlier thread on this topic, we had some wonderful answers and then, when Galen suggested a Gransnet Calendar we wondered whether actually we could combine the two ideas (with Galen’s blessing of course). We're grateful to Venture Photography for partnering with us on this project, since logistically it would have proved impossible to do without them.

So the hunt is on – we’re looking for gransnetters who have a great piece of advice for their teenage self, and a good photo of themselves at that age!

If chosen to take part you will be invited for a professional portrait session at your nearest Venture Studios (check map of where here www.venturephotography.com/studios/ ). And then you, your advice and photo of your younger self would all be captured forever in a unique new portrait that you can keep.

We do appreciate that it won't be convenient for everyone, but Venture have very kindly helped us to set this up - and it is the best way to enable the greatest number of gransnetters to participate.

So, tell us what advice you would give your teenage self.

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rubysong Fri 19-Dec-14 23:07:14

As far as you are able, choose to be cheerful. Negative people sap all the joy from everyone they meet.

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FlicketyB Sat 20-Dec-14 18:05:28

None at all. I would not be the person I am if I had listened to my own, adult advice at 16.

I made mistakes, made wrong decisions and wrong choices at times but that is how I am whom I am today. If I had known at 16 what I know now, I would probably have been even more insufferable.

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Nansypansy Sun 21-Dec-14 06:44:03

I think my advice to my teenage self would be to have the courage of my convictions. I wish my morals weren't so bloody high - I might then have married the boy of my dreams.

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peaches41 Wed 31-Dec-14 14:34:17

Marry a very rich man.

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FlicketyB Fri 02-Jan-15 08:03:06

A judge is in the news today saying that the divorce laws should be changed so that prenuptual and postnuptual agreements should be made legally binding so that it is less easy for the wife of a successful man to have such agreements set aside and claim a larger share of the family assets than originally agreed. Her reasoning seemed to be that the career ambition of marrying a rich man stops young women having clearer and better career aims.

Personally it strikes me as an example of a judge being out of touch with reality. Yes, of course their are women who set out to get a rich husband at all costs, but they are very few and the idea that a significant proportion of young women have seriously made finding a rich husband their main career aim is ludicrous.

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