Please, whatever you do, please stay young. You do not need to rush your years and act older than you are. Please do not wish the days away, for summer to end, for your next birthday or tomorrow. Enjoy the time you have right now, right where you are. As you grow older do not stop thinking that boys have cooties and do not let them take the sunshine from your world. Make sure you always keep your gal pals close to you even when the boys come knocking because at the end of the day your friends will always be there even when they boy walks out the door.

The funny thing about life is that you cannot go back. There are no re-dos. So those days that you wished would fly by- they do- they fly by and once they pass they are gone and will only be a distant memory. Make a bucket list of things you want to do. Plan to do them, enjoy them, live in the moment and take it all in. Experience this beautiful life that you have been given. Live for today- not for tomorrow or for the day before. You cannot predict the future but you do have the ability to take control of it and make it what you want. There is no time like the present to do the things that you want to do but in that remember, you will only be the age you are in the moment that you are in. Cherish that. Do the things in your 20's that will be unacceptable with you're 40 and when you're 40 make the most of being able to get up and get out because there will come a day when you can't get out anymore.

We have spent so much time creating a world where if we don't have a salary job and five kids by 30 we think we are doing something wrong. Stop right there. You do not need to fit a mold. What you need to do is live in the now and enjoy where you are. Take what is throw at you in its own time and make your own path through this wild world.