Turning back the clock

(17/04/08)

A video has just been posted on You Tube - a collection of individuals from different parts of the world all talking about "The one thing I wish I'd have known at high school"
It's been made as part of a project for kids currently at high school, and it's pretty powerful stuff.
It made me think.
There are a few things I wish I'd have known.

I guess the key ones are:
* It takes more courage to admit you don't know or don't understand something than pretend you do
* The popular kids are just as self-conscious as everyone else
* We are all just a product of our pasts. If people are horrible to you it says more about them than it does about you

It generally takes us a long time to work this stuff out, but the process of working it all out makes us who we are too. If I could go back & tell myself these things at school I don't know if I would, because finding this stuff out by myself has made me who I am. Awesome project though, fucking awesome.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2CsNFrCrs (ok so the backing track makes it seem a bit trite but the messages are great)