1. Dash into an exotic land as a savage
Strong four stars with air conditioning, all-inclusive and good internet - this is for you every vacation season in the next forty years. In the meantime - low-cost airlines, hostels, hitchhiking, random fellow travelers, donkeys and camels, tickets at the last moment, pills for diarrhea, choosing a route with a tossed coin, tasty and dirty eateries for locals, strengthening international friendship through resort romances with the indigenous population - this is it.
2. Jump on a trampoline
Neighboring children will not forgive you the hole in their favorite toy, which you will make in your attempts to soar into the sky, before taking it on your chest thoroughly. No adult can resist a trampoline. Know it now, before you are heavy in body and spirit.
3. Get drunk and wake up in an unfamiliar company
This trick cannot be repeated in maturity if you are not an alcoholic - with age, the body suffers a hangover worse and worse, and you yourself will stop running into adventures. And without alcoholic adventures, what kind of youth is there in Russia? Leap from school straight to old age.
4. Be a volunteer
While there is no wife on the hump, whining about the lack of funds to repair the kitchen (the husband whining about the lack of attention on your part), try yourself in volunteering. Giving your time and energy for the benefit of other living beings is fun, if only for a change - that's how you all your life do what you consume. Good news for egoists: Help is not for the sake of abstract universal debt, but because it is nice to do it, but you will make things collected by you to poor Negroit or their corrupt customs officers - paraffia is not yours, you at least tried.
5. Change five rented apartments
A change of residence helps to restrain materialism and protects youth. A person who has settled in one apartment is overgrown with things for a long time, strives to nestle, and this can be done in ten years. It is even better to change not five apartments in Moscow, but five cities or countries - then a career will begin that requires the presence of you, irreplaceable, in the office 50 weeks a year, the question of a school for children will arise and other horrors of adult life will appear, the world outside the tourist zones is like this and you will not see.
6. Dye your hair a bright color
It's like old women at the entrances - they scold "prostitutes" for short skirts, not out of reasons of maintaining the level of public morality, but out of envy that they will never wear that again. If you have such a desire since your teenage years, feel free to lighten up, google Manic Panic and Crazy Color, and go ahead, let every first person on the street stare at you. A cheap way to feel like a star, and not like it - a wash to help you, these paints are unstable. Neon colors will not harmonize with wrinkles.
7. Sleep with a teacher
Or with the boss, or with a childhood friend of the parents. Now an older lover is an exciting experience, then there will be gerontophilia.
8. Visit both sides of the barricades
Is talking about religion annoying? Try to infiltrate the Orthodox commune and understand what faith gives them. Technophobe? Make friends with technophiles. A convinced urbanist? Go to a remote village for a month. These exercises help keep your mind in good shape, and it's best to start early, while your neurons are still awake.
9. To learn English
At least at an average level. It is not necessary to fall asleep in evening language courses after work and splurge on a tutor, just watch TV shows with Russian subtitles, then switch to English, and do not be lazy to stop the movie to look at a new expression in the dictionary. As an option for stress-free study - Rosetta Stone.
10. Be a part of the subculture
Sloppy punks, romantics-tolkienists, goths, metalheads, adepts of occult sciences - all this is an unforgettable experience of immersion in other worlds if you are in your twenties. Further, normal people cease to understand why this garbage, when they sell fur coats with a 70% discount, and you also need to read a fresh bestseller, recommended in a magazine by critics. Hurry up to feel.
11. Turn off your phone for a week
Again, you are probably in the wrong area of responsibility now that you were fired with a wolf ticket in a week without communication, so you can afford it. Tell them that you are going to the Himalayas to take away the corpse of a relative who fell off a cliff, and boldly restore the psyche that was shaken by communications.
12. Invent an alter ego
Whether for public dating or just to scare pesky coupe neighbors, but an alternative version of yourself is worth considering.
13. Dance open air until the morning
Kazantip with its balding veterans of the movement in a dozen years will turn into another platform where progressive pensioners carefully move their limbs. Club discos are an activity for children under 25, in their 40s the sky of Ibiza is not at all the same.
14. Live and travel alone
Without parents, girlfriends, boyfriend, who replaced parents in everyday life, alone with himself. Then a family will happen, and perhaps you will never understand what you are and what you want for the rest of your life.
15. Get a job in a dream company
Anyone can sit comfortably in the firm of a classmate of his father, and you try to get a place in a company that sincerely delights you. Even if you have to be a free intern for a couple of months in the beginning, this is the case when experience and a line on your resume will increase your market value, even if you do not manage to get into the state.
16. Go to a world-class star concert
You can only recognize the music of "AK-47", but if your mother drags Madonna to the concert, do not run away from your father's house with screams of horror. Superstars are the pros to impress even those who are alien to their music.
17. Go through a period of being addicted to idiotic T-shirts
Surely you paid attention to aunts and uncles, whose wrinkled faces hang over pink ruffles and prints of cats in the glow of galaxies. These are people who have not played enough, and they are a little sorry. So while you are young, do not hold back, as you should buy T-shirts with the characters of "The Simpsons", Slayer's merch, "ironic" "aphorisms", hieroglyphs and portraits of celebrities, wear them until you develop persistent disgust, so that at 35 you will not embarrass others with arshin "SAMETS" on a beer belly.
18. Get a tattoo
Yes, the partak does not suit everyone and not everyone likes it. Minus one hundred to the credit of trust of the older generation. It is worth getting a little fat, and you immediately resemble a serving eunuch. But try at least a stupid temporary sticker on vacation, or let a fellow artist paint you with a pen, suddenly it turns out that the tattoo is exactly what you lacked in order to feel yourself. At forty it will be shameful to engage in such nonsense, but for now it is possible and necessary.
19. To buy a house
Let it be just an old shed in a dacha cooperative next to the great-aunt of your institute headman, still possessing something completely of your own, on your own land, where you can hide from everyone, is a magical feeling and one of the main joys of adults, especially, if the house is not bequeathed to you, but bought with the money earned.
20. Live like a rich man
You will never force yourself to actively strive for something if you do not know exactly what the object of desire looks like. Therefore, the abstract "oh, money would" will not turn into will, energy and a plan of action, as long as wealth remains for you a distant attribute of crazy yellow newspaper stars who buy lurid expensive rags, eat strange food at vulgar resorts and collect golden loaves. Meanwhile, security is, first of all, not show-off, but saving time and everyday comfort (twenty minutes of a taxi instead of an hour of a cold packed minibus), health (compare the appearance of the average visitor to Pyaterochka and the average visitor to Azbuka Vkusa) and saving nerves for predictably polite service. Anyone who has lived at least once in a self-booked Hilton of the category "we do not work with Russian tourist groups",
21. Live like a dervish
It is useful for any modern slave of sneakers and gadgets to remember that a person needs much less for happiness than marketers claim.
22. Learn to dance
When you stop twitching woodenly and manage to move smoothly like a panther, this will be a signal for the opposite sex: you control your body, pay attention to it, are confident in yourself, that is, for sure, there is no deck in bed either. This is not to mention the fact that in polite society, the inability to dance is akin to the manners of a peyzan, laying his elbows on the table and tearing a steak with his hands.
23. Do what you dreamed of as a child
Unrealized childhood dreams are harmful for an adult - every second person fixates on them and lives on the machine, instead of having new, more productive aspirations. Did you want to become an artist, but became an accountant of equipment for agricultural exhibitions? Spend a year in a class that will show you have a drawing ability or your mom shouldn’t have praised your scribbles. Before graduating from the Institute of Food Industry, raved about flying? Try at least for category B rights to pass without a bribe and not crash the car in the first year, and then, you see, and before flying in the passenger seat of a maize plant is not far.
24. Learn to shoot
Zombie apocalypse, World War III, or just a gopnik attack - in any case, bottle shooting is a more rewarding hobby than ping-pong and Tibetan transcendental meditation courses in the basement of your house.
25. Quit the job you hate
Just stand up straight, open your mouth and honestly, cheerfully and boldly tell your boss and the entire open space what you think about this rotten office. Spit on severance pay, half your pathetic monthly wage is a small price to pay for such a wonderful way to rise in your own eyes. The main thing is to find a job in advance and practice so that the voice does not tremble: the hysterics cannot become the hero of the office, whose name and feat have been whispered to new employees in the smoking room for several years.
26. Understand if you need children
It's okay to want kids - kids are a walking comic, your personal army, an upgrade of a familiar loved one you take care of, starting with a fish in first grade. Plus, at least this way you will make you behave like an adult in the good sense of the word: you will try to be more conscious and better, not for yourself, but for an innocent creature.
It is normal not to want children - the planet is overpopulated, you are sorry to waste your youth on spinognaw, responsibility is frightening. But for God's sake, decide which of the two positions you occupy, and if the second, protect yourself, but rather sterilize. The Universe did not endow you with the right to produce random creatures that even you do not need, which means that at best they will become just unhappy people, at worst they will become hardened and go to extinguish honest people with hammers.
27. Stop depending on someone else's opinion of yourself
Parents, as it turned out already in high school, are not gods and are not always a correct example. Teachers are also not so-so people, surpassing you at best in a couple of special disciplines. Peers are not beacons of wisdom, bosses are pompous fools. So why do you still take to heart the opinions of acquaintances and strangers, if there is your position, the position of the most important person for you? Those who are called natural born leaders in popular management textbooks outgrew this dilemma at about five years old.
28. Start your own bissnes
The main expert on the political, economic and international situation in any country at any time is a pensioner at the entrance, who does not know anything about government agencies beyond the social security regime. You approach him swiftly every time you devote ten minutes to inventing a particularly witty tweet to show off in front of equally useless laymen. Meanwhile, Daenerys Targaryen in your years already commanded the dragons. An excellent vaccine against killing the best years with fruitless criticism is an attempt to start something of your own and develop it to the status of a successful project, be it a seed trade on the market or an SMM agency. It is not a fact that a blogger who has already failed at the stage of filling the project page on Facebook will stop dunking oil traders in their professional failures, but perhaps, deep down, he will begin to understand
29. Figure out what suits you
In the first fifteen years, people wear what their mother bought, in the second what they like, and then it’s time to understand: what looks beautiful on Cara Delevingne does not look beautiful on 90% of the other girls, the brand tag does not replace the sports club card, and if you dress like a retired circus performer, none of your new acquaintances will see you as a candidate phys.-mat. sciences with a quivering-seeking heart - everyone will see a freak-color blind. Open any website with style recommendations, soberly assess your type of face and figure, draw conclusions.
30. Understand what is the purpose of your life
Do not wait for a round date, on the eve of which you will surely be covered with reflections. Think very well and honestly answer yourself what purpose all this daily mouse fuss serves. And then the next thirty years will be much easier and more fun.
