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Introduction:
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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
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Or not to do
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 neighbor and walk outward
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Introduce yourself by name
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Why not go for that coffee
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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
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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
Love your body
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Look into the mirror and think
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?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
Interlude
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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 in JPEGS
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Be creative
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Draw, learn a language
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Dance 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
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
Ask more questions
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Bring something out of someone
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