"Know who you are, and know its enough."
You are an anomaly. You are one of a kind. Gain strength from knowing that there is no one like you. Being unique is your greatest gift. The world doesn't know you, doesn't know the heart that was placed inside of your chest. You were designed to be something else, something this world cannot categorize or comprehend. Take joy knowing that you are different from the rest of the world. Let that be your superpower.
"It's fine, It's fine."
Don't get too worked up about those situations you had no control over.
"It's okay to give your A effort outside of school."
Not forever, but sometimes the world just brings its clobbering hand down on your life, and you're left trying to pick up the pieces. Sometimes you feel like you cannot keep up in life. It's okay to say, "I need a break," when the person next to you is saying, "I'm ready to run faster!" Getting good grades should be a goal, but it's not an end life goal, and it is definitely not the only goal. Focusing your efforts on emotional health and family health, instead of school health, is okay for a time. Taking a break from pressure, re-energizing your mind, and then jumping back into it, is totally okay.
"It's okay to leave when everyone else wants to stay."
I know that when a mass amount of people are doing something completely opposite of what you're doing or planning on doing, you feel kind of stupid and are pressured to change course. DONT. Keep doing what you're doing. It's okay to separate yourself from the pack and be a lone wolf for a while. It helps clear your mind and opens your eyes to things you would have never seen had you stayed with the group.
"It's okay to miss people you no longer want in your life."
This goes along with the one above. When leaving a group of people you have done life with, it's completely normal to miss those people. You have spent every amount of effort and energy on those people and feel like your just giving up on all that work. Truth is, if that work wasn't in vain, you would have gotten something in return from those people by now. It's okay to leave them and miss them altogether.
"It's okay to not know what you want to do or where you want to go."
Despite popular belief, it is alright to not have it figured out. If you don't know where to go to college, then don't know where to go to college. If you don't have a career picked out, then don't have a career you picked out. Sit in those donts. I dare you. No one ever does, and that's why people settle. They get grips with "reality" and just pick whatever works. When you don't know, you have EVERY OPTION OPEN. You can get away with doing any crazy, amazing thing you can think of, and who wouldn't want to do that. When you're not gripped to "reality", reality becomes this world of opportunity.
