| This is one for the future generation
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| You can ignore this if you want
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| Who am I to tell you what to do or not to do?
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| But don’t do what I did
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| Do what I didn’t do
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| Make the choices I didn’t make
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| Support your community
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| Start with your neighbour and walk outward
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| Introduce yourself by name
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| Why not go for that coffee you always end the conversation on?
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| Spend time with your friends and family
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| Call them, text them, write them a letter if you’re feeling nostalgic
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| It might be hard, but tell them you love them
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| They won’t be around forever
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| Respect the ground you walk on
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| Your kids are gonna walk on it someday too
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| And their kids after that
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| And you don’t want your grandchildren
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| Only seeing elephants in picture books
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| Get up every day
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| Make the bed all nice
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| And fling open the curtains
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| Feel the sun on your face
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| Love your body
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| Look into the mirror and think, «Wow! |
| I’m amazing!»
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| Don’t dwell on Instagram
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| There far better things to do than that
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| But if I have to tell you one thing to change
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| Smile more
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| Just smile more
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| Put down your phone
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| See the world through your own eyes
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| Create memories, not JPEGs
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| Be creative
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| Draw
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| Learn a language
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| Dance
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| Even if it feels really awkward
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| Why worry about something now
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| That you won’t worry about a year from now?
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| Remember, no matter how difficult things get
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| The sun will always rise again tomorrow
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| Pay someone a compliment
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| The checkout assistant, the postman
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| You’ll probably make their day
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| I know it would make mine
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| Challenge yourself
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| Challenge others
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| Ask more questions
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| Bring something out of someone
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| That even they didn’t even know was in there
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| Look, no one knows where they’re going
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| You don’t have to follow a path or…
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| You don’t have to follow anything
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| Just do what feels right
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| But if I had to tell you just one thing to change
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| Just smile more |