Dear Me: A Letter to my eighteen-year-old self

Dear Me at 18, 
 
What an amazing few years you have just had! You’ve got your A Levels, you’ve kissed some beautiful boys, you’ve met some amazing women (stay in touch!) and now, scarily enough, the time has come to start applying to drama school.
 
These auditions are some of the most difficult and yet life-affirming experiences you will ever have. Some of them will make you want to dig a hole and crawl into it until the end of the day as tall, skinny girls wearing sports bras and hotpants dance around you yelling “split leap, pas de bourre, triple…!”

Rehearsing for the Olympic Homecoming Ceremony in Scotland.
Whereas others, including one in particular, will make you want to study there so much that you will do the best audition of your life to date, depsite forgetting part of your monologue and making it up (really really well!) and, spoiler alert, they are going to offer you a place! A place you cannot even dream of turning down – you know it is the right school for you – trust your instincts.

Don’t be intimidated by people who are better at things than you. You cannot be good at everything. As soon as you accept this and focus on the things you are really good at, you will be so much happier!
This is Leah. She was 2 months old and the cuddliest thing ever!

Don’t be scared about going travelling – I know going alone is really scary, but it will be one of the best things you ever do – and you will always have so many stories to tell about your trip through Afirca and South America and the mental things you get up to. Don’t be scared and don’t chicken out of anything!

You are going to learn so much about yourself over the next few years – you are going to really fall for someone and, as a result, you are going to get hurt. You are going to meet a group of 13 people who will see you at your best and at your worst and who, I hope, will be in your life for many many years to come.

New Years Eve in Edinburgh a few years back with these
wonderful people from my year at RSAMD!

You are going to push all your performing boundaries a hundred times, you are going to see yourself grow as an actress so much and you are going to learn that no matter how difficult things get – in any aspect of your life – you can always pick yourself up.

You are a strong woman – believe in yourself.

Lots of love,

Rosie (age 24) xx

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This is the second of these “Dear Me” letters. I really like doing them actually – they put a bit more of me on the page than a normal blog post – a bit more of who I am. 
 
The first of these was “Dear Me: A letter to my sixteen-year-old self” if you fancied having a read.
 
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More photos from this time in my life – couldn’t leave them out!
Curling up for a nap with Lions and chatting with Cheetahs!
There are worse places to wake up – this is one of the places I camped in Africa.
En Route up the mountains in Peru – with a cactus fruit – looks
like a kiwi but SO SOUR!!!
Graduation Day! Yay!
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10 Comments

  • Reply
    Emma Hope Newitt
    April 30, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    awesome post, i love these little letters to our present selves! 🙂

    Emma | http://www.carpediememmie.co.uk/

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    Josie Brownlee
    April 30, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    I really enjoy reading these, and they always remind me to make my own and they really help remind me that things are going to be ok!

    Josie
    josievictoriaa

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    Hayley
    April 30, 2015 at 11:23 pm

    This is such a lovely post 🙂 Great pictures!
    Hayley x
    http://tuesdaymusing.blogspot.co.uk/

  • Reply
    Djaniella
    May 5, 2015 at 3:20 am

    I love this post. And I also just read your post to your 16 year old self! Such a clever idea – my high school English teacher my senior year made all her students ask for letters from our friends and she mailed them out 4 years later… I was in awe because you wouldn't have guessed that SO much can change in just 4 years. Therefore, I love reading posts like these. Let's us get to know you a little more 🙂

    Sincerely, Dj
    http://www.sincerelydj.com

  • Reply
    Emma Ansley
    June 15, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    loved reading this! stumbled across your blog on bloglovin! really like your posts 🙂

  • Reply
    Rosie Ladkin
    July 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    I want to do one to my future self next – not sure where to start but thats the plan! 🙂
    R xx

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    Rosie Ladkin
    July 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Absolutely – things are always worse in the moment. Time passes and things that were the end of the world are nothing at all!
    R xx

  • Reply
    Rosie Ladkin
    July 9, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
    R xx

  • Reply
    Rosie Ladkin
    July 9, 2015 at 5:11 pm

    Completely – that was one of my aims for it too – to convey a little more of who I am to those who are reading it.
    I really enjoy the slight sentimentality of writing them too,
    Glad you liked it
    R xx

  • Reply
    Rosie Ladkin
    July 9, 2015 at 5:11 pm

    Glad you liked it, and thanks, I hope you are still enjoying my blog.
    R xx

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