3 Big Lessons to Share With Your Younger Self, If You Could…

Wisdom From The Field

Emily Klein
Change Your Mind Change Your Life

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Image: Photo by Emily Klein

If you could go back and share wisdom with your younger self, would you?

Sometimes I say no, often I say yes, other days I could care less.

It’s a funny thing raising kids and then living with teenagers. You start to remember acutely what life was like back then: the joys, the frustrations, the challenges, remembering how absurd it all was.

I was saying to a friend the other day, how happy are we that we made it through the angst of our teens, twenties and thirties.

Not something I’d want to go back to again but it sure gives you wisdom if you’re willing to absorb the lessons.

And what of this wisdom, what would I share with my younger self if I could?

That Was Me Then: Photo by Emily Klein

I think about this in terms of parenting— how much should be shared with kids about the adventurous lives of Generation X?

Not being supervised, early years of riding bikes with friends everywhere, endless hours in the woods, not coming home until dinner, life without a mobile phone —and that’s not even the half of…

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Emily Klein
Change Your Mind Change Your Life

Growth Strategist. GenXer. Photographer. Passion for writing about the changes we're all facing, moving through transformation & becoming conscious leaders.