Ladies & Gentleman…. Wear Sunscreen.

“If I could give you one piece of advice for the future…. sun screen would be it.”  ….

When I was 18, graduating high school I remember my friends and I made fun Baz Lurhhman’s Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen”.  It was the most ridiculous “song” we had ever heard. I mean he wasn’t even singing and really? sunscreen? … that’s the best you got old man?

{Insert teenage eye-roll}

This morning while I was on my way from Pre-school drop off, I heard the silly sunscreen song come on, on my local radio station. Totally, random – I know.  I immediately laughed to myself and turned it up for some laughable 90’s nostalgia…. only 14 years later?   I found myself  being blown away by how on point and profound that silly song was.

Every piece of advice in it, I found myself thinking– I want my kids to know this. I want my teenage siblings to know this… NOW!

….When the truth is,  at 18? I didn’t even listen to the sunscreen part.

{GASP!}

When did I get … OLD?

Quotes Of Advice From Free To Wear Sun Screen

•  In 20 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
• Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes  you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.
• Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours
• Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults.
• 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 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year  olds I know still don’t.
• Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
• 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

• Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
• Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and  lifestyle because …

• Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you’re 40, it will look 85.
• Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of  fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth But trust me on the sunscreen…