#Sunscreen March 10

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Today contribution to the 30-Day Letter Writing Coach4aday Challenge is on SUNSCREEN.

The challenge involves composing a letter to yourself when you were an earlier age. The goal is to focus on a value, habit, or choice that needs to be adopted or made.

Today’s letter is my younger self at the age of 21 about the choice to not wear SUNSCREEN while at the beach all day.

Day 10 Letter-Sunburn

Spring 1974

Dear Spring Break Dan:

Tomorrow you will be leaving for a three-day trip to the beach to Ocean Drive SC (Today North Myrtle Beach SC) with some buddies from college. You will all pack into a second-row hotel on Ocean Drive called the King George located just a few blocks away from the Spanish Galleon. The King George is shown below.

Your second day there will turn out to be beautiful with bright sunshine, sitting on the beach admiring college co-eds, drinking some low price point lagers, and not wearing SUNSCREEN. Better enjoy the moment because in about six hours you are going to become miserable with the worst sunburn of your life.

The night after you fun in the sun your torso starts to display the following:

• Redness
• Irritation of skin
• Swelling
• Blisters
• Fever and Chills

For the next three days it will be painful to have anything touch your skin. Yet after a week you were back to feeling okay. What you don’t realize is the sun is like a bank it can make your skin a loan. That big ball of fire in the sky also has very attractive terms on any advance it makes to you. Simply put the sun offers your epidermis a balloon mortgage.

When you turn 60 those payments for a bad sunburn in your 20’s will start being made in full to a dermatologist who will begin performing all type of procedures.

WEAR SUNSCREEN

Sliced and diced Grown Up Dan