Sandra Rohde [Balhannah, South Australia]

Age 57 advice to my 37 year old self

Enjoy your children while they are young. They grow up faster than you can imagine. Worrying will take away a lot of the pleasure.

Steve Nichols [London, England]

Age 29 advice to my 23 year old self

When you see other people earning more money and you think 'they're not doing anything more than me': You were right.

Aja Star  [USA]

Age 26 advice to my 11 year old self

Do not go and live with your grandmother in the hope that a year away will make your mother stop drinking. It will only make her drink more, causing her to die two weeks before your 12th birthday leaving you alone forever. 

Alena Kolychkina [USA]

Age 23 advice to my 12 year old self

Do not join in the bullying of the shy weird girl. This is something you will never forget and regret for many, many years.

Jen Condemned  [USA]

Age 35 advice to my 31 year old self

When Lacy calls to ask you to drive his car back from Atlanta, hang up on him! There's cocaine in the car, it will cost you $15,000 on a lawyer and 3 years in Federal prison.

Tatjana Pardin [Niš, Serbia]

Age 35 advice to my 29 year old self

Trying to help so many people is a waste of your time. They really aren’t interested and it doesn’t do them any good: Don’t try and fix other people, instead do something for you that you can control.

David W. Hutchison – [USA]

Age 25 advice to my 15 year old self

When you realize that your high school education is little more than a lesson in obedience: Don’t spend the next four years fighting the establishment. Instead follow your instinct, drop out, you’ll be better off.

Alan Palmer [Toronto, Canada]

Age 39 advice to my 26 year old self

Save the £500 you feel inclined to spend on trying to get your hair back, once it’s gone. It’s gone: You’ll need that money when Jane has cancer (you don’t know her yet).

Timothy Forsythe [USA] 

Age 40 advice to my 28 year old self

You will walk into the careers advisor with a dream of becoming a medical doctor: But you will leave red-faced. Do pursue your dream anyhow, you’re much smarter and more motivated than you realize.

Sophie Thomson [Cambridge, England]

Age 20 advice to my 17 year old self

Don't talk to Lee Smallwood. If you do he'll come into the common room and show you his dongle.