Karaoké Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) Baz Luhrmann

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ninety nine 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 twenty 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 or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind

The kind that blindsides you at four PM on some idle Tuesday

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing don't be reckless with other people's hearts don't put up with people who're 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 twenty two what they wanted to do with their lives

Some of the most interesting forty 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 forty maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your seventy-fifth wedding anniversary what ever 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 in 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 with the precious few you should hold on

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle 'cos 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 forty it will look eighty five

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