I'm still young and dumb, and I'm still trying to find my way. In fact, we all are. I'm not quite sure where I am or where I'm supposed to be, and some might call me a little lost. But I'm a heck of a lot less lost with you beside me. So while there's a lot of things I can't promise you, like where we'll be or how we get there, I can promise you that we'll do it together.

It won't be clean, and it won't be easy. It'll be messy and confusing and probably pretty difficult. But if things were easy we wouldn't want to do them. We'll work and work and work some more, and then we'll wonder how we can possibly work any harder. We'll be so exhausted we forget how to say our own names or tie our own shoes. And I won't always be able to answer all of your questions, or soothe all of your fears. But I'll try my hardest, and that's my word.

There's going to be times where it feels like that's just not enough, and that's okay. Some days, it'll feel like there's no way out of a dark, dark room, even though we can hear everyone calling to us from the outside. Other days it'll feel like we're suffocating under piles of the things left undone, and the words left unsaid. But the worst days are always the ones that come before the best, and I promise you we'll find a flashlight to get us out of that room, and we'll find a way out of that pile, even if it's only with each other.

There might even be days where it feels like everyone is telling us that we can't possibly go on, because we're dumb and stupid and just a couple of failures. We'll feel like we're never good enough for them, and we'll feel like everyone else has thing strange thing called life figured out except for us. We'll look at others and feel dull and lifeless in comparison, and feel like a toy that's been forgotten in the rain one too many times. But everyone has been wherever you are now, and if they haven't, they will be. You might feel alone, but I promise you that you're not.

I will be there when you need guidance, and I will be there when you need someone to trust. I will never give up on you, and I trust that you'll never give up on me. When things get frightening and you're afraid to go on, I'll be there holding your hand. When your world gets a little too stormy and you're left without an umbrella, I'll be there, ready to run head first into that pouring rain.

Life isn't easy, but that doesn't mean everything is hard, and if there's one thing I want you to take away from this, it's that I want you to know that I will never abandon you when things get dark.