When I look back at photos of my sweet chubby teenage face it’s like I’m looking at an entirely different person. Imagine if you could turn back time and give that person some advice.
This time 40 years ago I was getting ready for my 18th birthday party. It was a joint do with my bestie Brigitte at her place in Mt Waverley and it was a banger.
Four decades ago. I look at the girl in the photo and it’s like we’re not even the same person. She’s shy, studious, hasn’t met an exercise she liked since giving up synchronised trampolining. Is desperate for love, desperate to get out of suburbia and start life for real.Sparked by time passing, I talk to my friend Katrina.
This was fun. “Learn a trade,” says Jaydo. “Travel wildly and widely.” My neighbour Bro is caught heading off to run her inner-north school: “Don’t leave Paris in 1986. Move away from your family. Keep moving forward.” Teddy loves the advice about doing one thing every day that scares you. Twenty-six years ago, that made her get in touch with a bloke she’d met at a party who said he’d call but didn’t. Turns out he was waiting to be paid so he could take her out. They’re still together, their two daughters grown.
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