Published on 12, July, 2020
This may be more appropriate for the older members, but younger ones may find it useful and may have some advice to give.
My really big one is I wish I was less of a 'people pleaser', less compliant.
I think I have been quite easily manipulated during my life and if I hadn't been, my life would have taken a different course.
I have finally learnt to say 'no' and am trying hard to 'please myself'.
What about you?
I was quite stubborn when I was younger, so it's debatable whether I would have listened to my own advice.
Similar to Desmond, I suppose my advice would be to have no expectations.
That can be a good thing. Stubbornness can be adherence to the authentic self. I remember thinking walking home from school one day that I'd make an internal promise there and then that I'd never give up my Doctor Who fandom no matter how out of fashion and how much of a joke it became - the Nineties was a lonely time on that front! - because that adult me must never betray something that got his younger self through every day, no matter what that brought.
And still does.