The humanities and body stuff get short shrift. And they have the highest impact when you inhale them young.
So take up meditation.
Make dancing something you do often.
Hack things with your hands.
Sing.
Sing while bicycling.
Play the harmonica with soul.
Perform your poetry to others.
Hug, kiss, and shake hands with enthusiasm.
Find people that make you uncomfortable and talk with them.
Learn a non-european language well enough to dream in it.
Audition for a Shakespeare role.
Startup a new business every three months.
Wait for sex until waiting is excruciating. Then just a bit more.
Find out what's not taught in your school and invent your own private curriculum.
Go out of your way to attend life events like christenings, bar mitzvas, quinceañeras, weddings, and funerals, for people you know and people you don't.
Yoga.
Read something non-fiction written before your great, great, great, great grandparents were born.
Make a box out of wood without power tools.
Interview older relatives and strangers like they are time travelers.
Learn to cook well enough to work in a diner.
Start a lifelong diary.
Invent a religion.
Learn all the medical names for your body parts, inside and out.
This is exactly the sort of things I would say, if I could send younger me a note. Broaden your horizons, self.
Academically, professionally, it's all worked out fine- just do what you do, me-of-the-past.
But I would that I had invested a bit more effort into music, culture, arts- and a lot more effort into health & exercise. I basically wrote off physical fitness, which was a huge mistake.
FWIW I'm not the rotund sort, in fact the opposite, skinny as a bean pole in school and it developed a lot of bad habits that I am still correcting and hurt my overall performance & success (being terribly underweight dulls the mind...) I really should have developed a bit more cardio & a lot more muscle.
So take up meditation.
Make dancing something you do often.
Hack things with your hands.
Sing.
Sing while bicycling.
Play the harmonica with soul.
Perform your poetry to others.
Hug, kiss, and shake hands with enthusiasm.
Find people that make you uncomfortable and talk with them.
Learn a non-european language well enough to dream in it.
Audition for a Shakespeare role.
Startup a new business every three months.
Wait for sex until waiting is excruciating. Then just a bit more.
Find out what's not taught in your school and invent your own private curriculum.
Go out of your way to attend life events like christenings, bar mitzvas, quinceañeras, weddings, and funerals, for people you know and people you don't.
Yoga.
Read something non-fiction written before your great, great, great, great grandparents were born.
Make a box out of wood without power tools.
Interview older relatives and strangers like they are time travelers.
Learn to cook well enough to work in a diner.
Start a lifelong diary.
Invent a religion.
Learn all the medical names for your body parts, inside and out.
Write obituaries.