In honor of International Women's Day coming up on March 8,
a whole lot of female youtubers are looking back on their high school lives
and dishing out advice to their past selves.
I think this advice can be actually valuable for both men and women so--
Here I go with Martina's Dear Me
This is really important.
I know that Buffy ends at the end of Season 5 and she dies, and you were like,
"OH MY GOD MY WORLD IS OVER!!"
But don't worry, they're gonna come back with two more seasons
and they're even going to continue with comic books so--
Hey. That's not what this video is about.
This isn't to help you get over your TV dramas,
this is about real life advice that the world can apply to.
Oh. I'll start again.
Okay. Dear me,
I know a lot of other Youtubers talked about the importance of believing in yourself and
it's okay to be different and just be yourself in high school and don't be dragged down
and you are beautiful in every single way, words can't drag you down--
But hey high school Martina,
You and I both know that things like fitting in and being a part of the popular crowd
were never really an issue for us.
Not because we did fit in or were part of the popular crowd,
but because we just didn't care about fitting in.
And I know that there are probably a lot of other people out there watching
that can relate to what I'm saying.
We didn't have any giant issues of not fitting in or not being ourselves,
but that didn't mean that high school didn't have any sucky sucky suck suck problems for us.
We marched to the beat of our own flute,
wearing Halloween costumes when our friends deemed it not cool anymore.
and we were friends with whoever we liked to, whether they were labled as cool or not
But that being said, it was a really big Debbie Downer
to not find anybody to share things with that I like.
All those people I've tried to convince to read fantasy novels
because The Wheel of Time was awesome,
tried to explain Sailor Moon, or even my interest in Japanese culture for that matter
was a total lost cause.
I was pretty much convinced that there was nobody out there that had similar intrests
or taste in things as I do.
But that's because high school is kind of its own mini-universe.
You have to experience it everyday, for four to five years
so you think that it's an active representation of what life must be like.
But that's where you're wrong.
The second you leave high school forever and get a job
or go to university or travel,
you'll discover that there are so many people out there that are into the same things as you.
This tiny, little slice of life in high school,
is not representative of what life is actually like.
Where were my Sailor Moon peeps at yo?
It's okay. I have them today.
Speaking of friends-- Hey high school Martina,
I know you had a pretty rough time at the end of high school because of your friends.
You took the ending of some friendships really really hard
and it sent you into a spiraling 5-year depression.
So let me tell you what high school Martina,
I am no longer depressed after seeing a super helpful therapist and I have some advice for you.
People will enter high school and be unrecognizable by the end of the final years
People you thought were once awesome will become a##holes
and people you thought were once a##holes might just become awesome.
Some people won't change that much at all.
This will continue on after high school: at your work, at university, when you're dating,
if you get married, if you have kids, forever.
So what I've learned is that everybody changes and grows, including you
Some people grow together and some people grow apart.
I mean-- let's look at your high school self Martina.
You never wore makeup, you hated the color pink, you only wore black,
you only wore baggy tomboy clothing and now your eyebrows are pink.
Pink. They're pink on purpose. Pink I'll like to blame our Hello Kitty addiction for that.
The point is, you've changed tremendously, even in the last seven years you've been in Korea.
So what I want to say is this: If you grow apart from someone,
you need to accept it gracefully and not take it so personally.
When you leave high school, you might have zero friends, one friend, twenty friends,
but all of that will change as well.
You'll meet new people and make friends and--
some of your middle school and high school friends will remain really close awesome friends in your life.
Hi Jackie~
However, don't miss opportunities to make new friends because--
you're hanging on to old friends just because you've known each other for so long.
The reason I say this is because I've met a lot of people that are friends with the same high school circle
and when I hear their conversations, it's like they don't actually like each other.
They seemed to have remained friends out of some kind of invisible, middle school, high school duty.
I said duty... (play on words)
And the worst part is, they seem to really drag each other down
with snippy comments or jealous, petty remarks.
Look, you don't need to be dramatic about it, you don't need to announce it to the world
or put up a Facebook post and end the friendship like quitting some angry job.
Just don't limit yourself to the same experiences and make some time for new people in your life.
Alright, last very important piece of advice-- Dear me,
I want to let you know that Sailor Moon is gonna become really popular in the future.
In 2014-15, they're gonna make a remake of the show and it's gonna be amazing--
and it's gonna be based off the actual manga.
and other people are going to like it
and you're gonna talk to people online on the Internet on this thing called the Youtube.
Speaking of which, you need to invest in Youtube
and you need to invest in Apple-- Harry Potter--
There's something called Twilight, you need to buy stocks in that.
*Simon admonishes Martina for going "off-topic"
Invest in Twitter!
Okay, if you want to hear a couple more pieces of real advice I have for my high school self,
you check it out in the blog post here.
And let's get the conversation going in the comments section below:
What piece of advice would you give to your past self?
And can you relate to any of the advice I have for my high school self?
Let me know in the comments section below or on the website
And one last thing Martina:
Dear me,
Do not eat that ___ in that restaurant because you're gonna get wicked ass food poisoning
like I mean projectile arching rainbow and you'll never be able to __ for the next 10 years.
Trauma...