Stooffi's Advice to 15 Year Olds
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The document describes the author's life and experiences when they were 15 years old. It then details their journey exploring the internet and social media, including various side projects they undertook. The author provides 10 tips of advice for 15-year-olds, encouraging them to respect others, find their passions, think beyond themselves, use the internet wisely, disconnect occasionally, listen and observe more, and take calculated risks while enjoying the present moment.
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- 2. @stooffi stooffi.wordpress.com Freelance Writer, Dancer, Web Analyst Avid fan of travelling, cafes and cats.
- 4. #angelcat
- 5. #muffinkitty
- 6. When I was 15 • Life was pre;y structured • I looked a lot to peers to evaluate my self worth • Got very angry with my family all the Bme • Was trying very hard to find my idenBty • Tried too hard to be cool (esp. in front of the boys) • Was spending too much money on Neoprints • I lost someone close to me for the first Bme • Our lives revolved around phones • I sucked at Math, Chemistry and Chinese • I saw no value in O Level ExaminaBons and hated it
- 7. My journey into the Internet & Social Media
- 11. Side Projects
- 15. Blessings Home cat adoption 2011
- 28. Advice for 15 year olds?
- 31. My 10 tips
- 32. Respect everyone and everything
- 34. Find your passions (and people who share them)
- 36. Use the Internet wisely (The possibilities are endless)
- 37. Disconnect, once in a while
- 38. Start identifying the traits you don’t like in others, and strive to be different.
- 39. Listen more. Observe more. Learn more. Ask more questions.
- 42. I beg you, to have paBence with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the quesBons themselves as if they were locked rooms or books wri;en in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the ques+ons now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noBcing it, live your way into the answer. Letters to a young poet
Editor's Notes
- Why I’m here?Not the brightest bulb in the corridor, never the top student, I haven’t really achieved greatness in life. Thought really hard about what I wanted to share! It’s a little too early to give career advice right now, so I thought I’d share about stuff that I felt would be applicable to you.Not going to give you career advice – instead tell you about myself & side projects. But I have taken quite an atypical route in choice of career so you can ask me about it if you’re curious as well.Open to questions of any kind! About my job, about dealing with parents, about dealing with friends, about boys? how being 25 is like.
- 2011
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- You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.Especially for people – everyone is dealing with their own struggles in life, I don’t believe that there’s any justification to be rude. There’s always a more civilized & better way of dealing with things.
- Rules are in place for a reason – it helps to understand what you can or cannot change, and why they are in place. Sometimes you need step back, look at the bigger picture, be the better person and step down.You can question certain things, but for some others, there’s really no point in fighting & wasting time and effort.E.G. I mentioned I really hated Os. I tried really hard to get out of it. It’s never gonna happen!!!
- Dance – taken me to many places, helped me meet many people, it helps that wherever you go you will find people who love dancing. I’ve known my best friends through dance.The experiences you go through while pursuing your passions will help mould who you turn out to be as a person – not social acceptance, not your grades. That said, passions will change as time goes by. But that’s okay!
- Shared about the internet & how it can help to start social movements. You’re in the best situation to run a social event – you have the support of your school, your fellow students, and it’ll make a great story and be picked up by the press just because you’re young.It’s easy too with wordpress, blogger, tumblr, facebook, twitter. You can do it from your home and collaborate with others without leaving your laptop
- Wealth of information and resources you can get onlineAlso… be careful of what you post, & privacy settings. People are watching. All this stuff is searchable. Think twice before posting.
- I’m really easily excited by the internet. It’s my haven – if I’m bored, I turn to it. If I need answers, Google is my no1 go to. If I’m in an awkward situation I’ll just talk to others on my phone. But it’s still important to be able to be alone, and be away from technology. You kind of need time alone to think and breathe and to understand yourself + priorities.
- You might not know what or who you want to be right now, but you will definitely know what or who you wouldn’t want to be. Ie for me I can’t stand it when people are disrespectful, or when people don’t listen. So I’ll make a conscious effort not to embody these traits.
- A lot of things I’ve achieved that I’m proud of, I’ve done without my parents permission. That said, I do things that are really low-risk, which I think is essential while you’re young because essentially, you’re still relying on your parents for a lot. I want to set up a cat café!