more notes for my daughter

Let her learn from my mistakes, please.
Part one here.

• Be you. The world will adjust.
• Say no to the things you don’t want to do – you don’t need an excuse.
• Eat junk food while your metabolism is good.
• School is great, but educate yourself on the things they leave out, too; money, things that grow, gender issues, life hacks, health, and how to make dinner out of one bendy carrot and some old pasta.
• Don’t believe everything you think.
• “If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.”
• Life is too short to worry about matching socks.
• Less is more. This is generally true of all things, but especially words and possessions.
• If it doesn’t matter, let it go.
• Tell the truth. Honesty is the highest art.
• Find the people who love like you do.
• Don’t compare yourself to strangers on the internet.
• Drink more water.
• Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
• If a feature of a woman’s appearance doesn’t have a male counterpart, it probably isn’t a real thing. See, saddlebags, VPL, thigh gap, cankles.
• Babies have cellulite. It isn’t unhealthy or shameful or something to fix – it’s normal human functioning.
• Set really good passwords, with non-dictionary words.
• Kittens are less trouble than puppies.
• Sometimes the hardest battles are between what you think and what you feel.