Tell us: what advice do you wish you had known when you were younger?

‘Don’t you ever feel that you didn’t get the memo?’ Composite: Guardian Design Team/Getty

“Don’t you ever feel that you didn’t get the memo?” It’s a question Lauren Mechling asks in her feature on the essential advice she wished she had known when she was younger.

What if I had received marching orders that had warned me not to share my former therapist’s phone number with my close friend (who would, after a few sessions, realise that she couldn’t stand me and cease to be my close friend)? I really never got the memo.

Now, we would like to hear your own stories – however momentous or small. Do you have an instruction for your younger self that could have saved you from bad choices or steered you onto the right path? We would like to hear what fantasy memo you would write to your younger self, and why.

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