Comedian and actor Dylan Moran takes the challenge to pen a letter of advice to his 16-year-old self. The letters are part of a series by Street Roots’ sister paper, the Big Issue UK.
I’d tell my 16-year-old self not to take everything so seriously. I’m stunned when I look back at how monumentally important I thought everything was. I was incredibly intense, ridiculously up myself. I was the lone horseman. It was all about me, and books and poetry. Not that those things aren’t important to me any more but in those days it felt like do or die. Now I want to say to my younger self, if you think of life as a play, you’re the bumbling forgetful character who appears in Scene 7 looking for his keys.