What is something you wish you could tell your teenage self?
I think I have mentioned once or twice throughout this blog that I enjoy a good journal prompt now and again. More often than not, journal prompts look like questions, and they are designed to induce self-reflection which is then expressed in writing. Your response can be as long and detailed or as short and concise as you please, and you needn’t share what you have written with anyone if you don’t want. As I responded to a few prompts over the weekend, sourced from a website called Psych Central , I came across one which went like this: “If I could talk to my teenage self, the one thing I would say is…”, and the first thought that flowed out of my pen onto the page kind of took me by surprise, in a way, because it made me notice something about how I spent my teenage years. My response was this: “I am the source of my own happiness”. I couldn’t help feeling that this was quite a deep, profound thing to realise, almost 10 years on from adolescence. However, when I thought about it furt...