Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in but with what it is still possible for you to do.
As I've said many times the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years...