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If you are reading this, there are a few things you should know. Some of them I will tell you, but some of them you should tell yourself. Or at least hopefully you will be able to tell yourself. If you are reading this, what are your expectations for life? What are your predictions? Most of us make lists and guesses and hopes for the future, but at the end of the day we never can know for sure what will happen. If you are reading this, it is hard to say what you will do next, but I like to think that is what makes life all the more exciting.

If you are reading this:

1. You can read.

Or maybe someone is reading it to you. Either way, you had the patience to take it all in. Bravo.

2. You have access to the Internet.

Or you know someone who does. Or you have ways that the rest of us have yet to discover.

3. You speak English.

Or you got a translator. Or people are translating this article. If that's the case, this stuff sure does get around.

But why are you letting me tell you about yourself? You have lived every day of your life with yourself. Put an end to this. But you probably won't. You'll probably keep reading.

4. That's what I thought.

Sometimes we fall into the trap of believing that our lives are set in stone. Life is merely a series of to-do boxes and checklists. Once the checklist is composed, it cannot be rewritten. We let other people tell us who we are, and whether or not we are any of those things, we come to believe them. You believed me. Who else do you believe?

If you're reading this:

5. The Royal Wedding already happened.

I can only hope it was as wonderful as all the pre-wedding specials are telling me it is going to be.

6. You're closer to next year than I am.

Cheers to the new year.

7. You could tell me the weather of my tomorrow and your last week.

All I can depend on right now is the Weather Channel, so your accuracy is obviously going to win.

8. I cannot predict the state of the world.

Maybe it will be exactly the same. Maybe it will be completely different.

If I cannot make many more accurate predictions beyond those I have already made, who is to say how your life will end up or what choices you will make? There are a million different paths in front of you waiting to be chosen, a million different possibilities. Life could turn out any number of ways; one choice could make it better, another could make it worse. But life is not full of single decisions that decide our fate. We make countless decisions everyday. Let each decision influence the next and do not get trapped in the past. Do not dwell on the person who is writing this article and the world in which she lives. Focus on the person who is reading this, and the person who will read it tomorrow.

9. You get to decide what kind of life you will live.

10. Prove us all wrong.

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