"Dear Me" - A New Book
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debris4spikeDEAR ME: A LETTER TO MY SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD SELF Release Date (US/UK/AUS)
In "DEAR ME: A LETTER TO MY SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD SELF", JAMES MARSTERS joins 75 other celebrities, writers, musicians, athletes, and actors who have written letters to their younger selves that give words of comfort, warning, humor, and advice. These letters present intimate, moving, and witty insights into some of the world’s most intriguing and admired individuals. By turns funny, surprising, raw, and uplifting, this singular collection captures the universal conditions that are youth, life, and growing up. Edited by Joseph Galliano and with a forward by J.K. Rowling, other letter writers include Hugh Jackman, Alan Cummings, Julie White, Garth Brooks, Stephen King, Gene Hackman, John Waters, Alan Rickman and many more.
"Dear Me" goes on sale October 25 in the US and October 27 in the UK and Australia. Pre-orders are available from online booksellers now.
The details were taken from here
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It got me thinking - what would I tell my 16 year old self?
I suppose it would be to say that life is good - friends do arrive - I will get to see some of the places that I have loved looking at in the pictures.
But, maybe if I could be more willing to be open with myself, not so scared to open myself up to hurt, maybe life would have been different.
However, at 16 I was happy - cushioned from life by a loving family. So to suggest that what was helping me cope with those teenage years could be something that would, long term, cause some sadness, might be a bit hard to acknowledge.
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So, I sahll be interested to see what James, and others, give their younger selves in advice.
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Date: 2011-09-22 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-22 11:05 am (UTC)At sixteen, I had my first real boyfriend. I was still in school while he was older. He wanted to get married and I didn't. I knew I didn't know much about anything and needed to live a bit of life before I got married. So I wasn't a complete dummy.
I wish I could tell that younger self I should find an education so I could support myself before I got serious with someone. That I found something that I loved to do and go for it. I wish I could tell me that I was worthy of asking for things for myself. Instead of doing for everyone and ignoring my own needs. Yeah, instead of finally doing it after being the caretaker of the family till I was in my forties. I might have had a different life if I had.
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Date: 2011-09-22 05:52 pm (UTC)But, maybe if we had done that then we wouldn't have "met" ... so someone would have been missing!
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Date: 2011-09-22 10:58 pm (UTC)I had to grow up fast at fourteen. I became the family caretaker then. I sometimes think I've never really been a kid.
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Date: 2011-09-27 05:36 pm (UTC)I think in somee ways I'm similar ... but opposite. A kid coccooned from life ... and now the carer ... so never really getting a chance to find and "be" me.
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Date: 2011-09-22 04:44 pm (UTC)Therein lies the paradox, for by begrudging giving my 16 year old self advice, cos I dont like him when I look back, I don't and end up me anyway... *sigh* I wouldn't have listened anyway back then, was too full of myself and too empty of God.
Anyhoo, that book sounds ace and I will certainly be buying it :D
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Date: 2011-09-22 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-23 12:16 am (UTC)Still, it might be amusing to see what people would write!
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Date: 2011-09-27 05:37 pm (UTC)I'm glad that life led me where it did ... in that I now have met some great friends.