Writing Prompt #21

"Write a letter to the 10 year old child you had been"

Response:

Christina (young 10 year old version of what I am now),
      First and foremost, please do not take anything I say offensively! This is for your very own good and you deserve to hear this straight from me who is you. You're going to do what you want anyway and I'll be happy if you do because I feel I turned out okay for being such a... I'll refrain from finishing that insult.
     Stop listening to the bands you are listening to! N*SYNC, Britney Spears, B*Witched, and the Backstreet Boys do not constitute real music. Try listening to Pearl Jam or something, get a head start on liking good music rather than boy bands and premature sluts who eventually go mental and shave their heads. While you are doing this, Lance Bass is in fact gay now. Your entire family was right so like Justin Timberlake instead if you'll like any of them. He's the only one who ends up musically talented and stays in the game.
     Start playing sports. Girls who play sports in middle school and high school are considered awesome, not to mention you'll have a friend base that lasts forever. Your future boyfriend Brian (who's pretty cute by the way) actually played sports and has friends he still to this day talks to not to mention 95% of them are normal human beings. Imagine that.
    Keep drawing. Don't ever stop drawing. You can do so much with that talent so stop looking in the mirror and cocking your head to the side trying to look like Britney Spears and pick up a pencil. Oh and another thing, good grades are important. I figure right about now (fourth or fifth grade) you're becoming awful at school. Get to work! Get on it and stop fuckin' around!
     Oh and always remember your mother will always be right so just listen to her! You can avoid so much horse shit if you just listen to her.
     Shine as brightly as you can while you can. Do whatever you want because nothing in this world is impossible if you try hard. I love you, you're family loves you and the people surrounding you love you. Please make it a point to dress better that N*SYNC shirt is super weird.

Love you like my luggage chump-
Your future self who wrote you in hopes of making herself athletically fit and better at visual arts

P.S. Learn a foreign language fluently... preferably Slovak, you're gonna need it when you're sixteen til nowish if not later.