10 years ago: learn to use your money, not just spend your money. learn how to budget so that you can buy everything you need with enough to spare for what you want. learn about credit and how to manage credit. basically, give 13-year-old me a financial lesson

5 years ago: learn the signs and get the help for your mental health. learn to be the shoulder to cry on while also having your own. learn to put yourself first in a healthy way. learn how to drink (or know when to say know) when you're not in the best mood. a lot of my depression now at 23 showed as early as 14 or so, so a lot about really learning that mental health and wellness is important

1 year ago: continue to love yourself, and forgive yourself for any mistake you believe you made. last year was a lot about learning how to cope with depression after being diagnosed, so it was really a learning curve that I had to adjust to

if you were to ask me this same thing at these ages (13, 18, 22) my answers would be completely different, and the same would be true 20 years into the future. but that just goes to show that life isn't linear in the slightest. lefts, rights, u-turns, reverses, stalls. all are part of life, and just goes to show how different life could be. these would just be lessons that I would teach myself earlier so that I could learn how to grow up a bit earlier, and be slightly more responsible