My dear ones
I woke up today thinking about my two little sisters.
Actually, I woke up today thinking about some behaviours that have been pushing me away from my passions and from doing what makes me feel good about myself.
So I started writing to myself, but thinking about them. In the end, it’s more of bits of advice to them as they grow up in this interesting world:
Dear ones,
Be wise about how you use your weekends, they end up in a glimpse.
Don’t watch too much Netflix or cat videos on YouTube, they’re not as interesting or useful as you think. Just get inspired by them and do something about it. Bragging around about how many series you’ve watched won’t help you to solve almost any of your problems or the world’s challenges.
Scrolling down your feed or timeline will only give you a repetitive strain injury, save your real thumbs to write love letters, appreciation emails or thank you messages to the ones that really matter to you.
Try to understand the historical context of where you are and what are all these cool companies trying to get from you by giving you so much free stuff.
Be aware of how much freedom you are loosing by not caring about your privacy and your data.
As the years pass by, you’ll miss all the available time your parents used to provide you and you spent it passively on the screen.
Try to write long texts and tutorials instead of tweets and messages. Save them somewhere else instead of the walled-gardens.
Write tutorials or create videos to help people, not to make fun of them.
Spend one or two hours a day passively on the screen. Use as many hours as you can to learn about your passions and pursue them.
Do things that you usually think you can’t but you know it would be good for you.
Don’t be afraid to make mistakes or to be wrong.
Learn how to communicate in a loving way with the NVC and the Love Speech.
Don’t spend your money buying too much useless fashion stuff. Use your money to build stuff. Build things that you love.
Learn how to build things, whatever it is.
Read books you find interesting. Don’t read anything just to say or “prove” you’re smart.
Don’t be afraid of doing something you said you would never do. People change over time, so do you.
Yours sincerely,
Yuri.
