Wear Sunscreen (Mau Kilauea's Tropical Remix) - Mau Kilauea/Baz Luhrmann

Ladies and gentlemen

Wear sunscreen

If I could offer you only one

Tip for the future sunscreen would be it

The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists

Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable

Than my own meandering experience

I will dispense this advice now

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth

Oh never mind

You will not understand the power

And beauty of your youth

Until they've faded but trust me

In 20 years you'll look back

At photos of yourself and recall

In a way you can't grasp now

How much possibility lay before

You and how fabulous you really looked

You are not as fat as you imagine

Don't worry about the future

My worry

But know that worrying is as effective

As trying to solve an algebra

Equation by chewing bubble gum

The real troubles in your life

Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind

The kind that blindsides you at

4 pm on some idle Tuesday

Do one thing every day that scares you

Don't be reckless with other

People's hearts

Don't put up with people who

Are reckless with yours

Floss

Don't waste your time on jealousy

Sometimes you're ahead sometimes

You're behind

The race is long and in the end

It's only with yourself

Remember compliments you receive

Forget the insults if you succeed in doing this tell me how

Keep your old love letters

Throw away your old bank statements

Stretch

Don't feel guilty if you don't

Know what you want to do with your life

The most interesting people

I know didn't know at 22 what

They wanted to do with their lives

Some of the most interesting

40-year-olds I know still don't

Get plenty of calcium

Be kind to your knees

You'll miss them when they're gone

Maybe you'll marry maybe you won't

Maybe you'll have children maybe you won't

Maybe you'll divorce at 40

Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken

On your 75th wedding anniversary

Whatever you do don't congratulate

Yourself too much

Or berate yourself either

Your choices are half chance

So are everybody else's

Enjoy your body use it

Every way you can

Don't be afraid of it or

What other people think of it

It's the greatest instrument

You'll ever own

Dance even if you have nowhere

To do it but your own living room

Read the directions even

If you don't follow them

Do not read beauty magazines

They will only make you feel ugly

Get to know your parents

You never know when they'll be gone for good

Be nice to your siblings

They're your best link to your past

And the people most likely

To stick with you in the future

Understand that friends come and go

But a precious few who should hold on

Work hard to bridge the

Gaps in geography and lifestyle

For as the older you get

The more you need the people you knew when you were young

Live in New York City once but

Leave before it makes you hard

Live in northern California once but

Leave before it makes you soft

Travel

Accept certain inalienable truths

Prices will rise politicians

Will philander you too will get old

And when you do you'll

Fantasize that when you were young

Prices were reasonable

Politicians were noble

And children respected their elders

Respect your elders

Don't expect anyone else to

Support you

Maybe you have a trust fund

Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse

But you never know when either

One might run out

Don't mess too much with your hair

Or by the time you're 40 it will look 85

Be careful whose advice you

Buy but be patient with those who supply it

Advice is a form of nostalgia

Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past

From the disposal wiping it

Off painting over the ugly parts

And recycling it for more than it's worth

But trust me on the sunscreen