Dear Life I’m Living,
This week, I decided to write you because some things have happened recently that made me step back and take a good look at my own life. I wrote down some things that have some sort of meaning in my life. They keep me going because sometimes life is hard, and the only thing you can do is be positive.
The first thing I want to talk about is how who you were in high school means nothing to who you are now. This is something people don’t realize until you actually “grow up.” No one cares if you were the homecoming queen or the captain of the football team. Those things are important at that time of your life, but once they hand you that diploma, none of that matters! That chapter of your life is closed, and you now have the chance to be a new person. Take it! Don’t let that chance slip away. College is your chance to become the person you have always wanted to be. I just wanted to thank you for helping become the person I wanted to be, and throwing the person I was in high school out the door.
Next, I just want to remind you to never care what people think. Be who you want to be. Don’t ever let people put you down for living the life you want to live, and as long as you love yourself, nothing else matters. To those people out there that make you feel bad, they can stop, because no one is perfect, so they can stop acting like they are!
To follow that up, you need to remember that before you can possibly love anyone else, you need to love yourself. That may not be today or anytime soon, and that is OK. If you are not completely happy and in love with the person you are, how can you think it's even possible to let someone else in? Love is something so special, but it requires two people that are completely in love with who they are to combine those two lives and make them one. So if you aren’t in love with yourself, change. You only live once, so you better make sure you do it right. And then, when you're ready to love someone else, you will know.
The last thing I want to emphasize to you is that life is too short. If I have learned one thing so far this summer. this is it. So take chances, because you never know if you will ever get those opportunities again. It may even surprise you what amazing things can come out of those opportunities. Life is too short to not eat ice cream every day and spend every minute being the best version of yourself you can be.
So, life, I know we have had our hardcore ups and downs, but I cannot thank you enough for the amazing experiences we have had so far. I cannot wait to see what you have in store for the future, but no matter what it is, I’ll always try to look at it with a positive attitude because, well, it could be worse.
Sincerely,
The girl who showed up
