To the Past Me
Dear 5 Year Old Me,
Life right now is great, you play outside all day and spend time with your best friends at the park. Your parents read to you and tuck you in still, you go on vacation every summer and have no stress. You get almost everything you ask for, you play with you dogs and that pesky cat that just shows up at your families house. Youth is something to cherish forever, don't forget you're always growing up.
Dear 11 Year Old Me,
You now are very involved in dance, its become your passion. You dance with the older teams and go to comeptitions. But don't let it take away from your friends and you social life. Don't let dance stress you out to the point it starts to not be fun. Enjoy your middle school years and the change of school you'll have next year. Most importantly don't forget you dance team, is like a second family to you.
Dear 13 Year Old Me,
You're officially a teenager, you can go to PG-13 movies alone with your friends and go to the mall alone. You've even started walking to dance, a lot has happened to you because you've gotten older. You help out at your studio with classes and see other little girls with the same passion you have. You started the wonderful part of life where you got an unpaid job at a museum. The money never really mattered to you though, you wanted to learn more about history and spend time with all of the friends you've made.
Dear 16 Year Old Me,
The magical number 16, do you feel any different? You've started looking at college's and what you want to major in. You still have no idea, and it scares you, but trust me when I say it will all work out. Dance is still a huge part of your life, your family is there supporting you everyday. Even if you didn't see it, they are always rooting for you to succeed past your life here at the studio. This year, you had to say goodbye to seniors who already left for college and it was so hard for you. These people grew to be like siblings to you and now you have to let them go an have a life of their own without you by their side.
Dear All Past Me's,
I don't really have advice for the future, you will continue to make mistakes and life won't always be great. But keep doing what you've been doing because my life is amazing and its all because of the choices from the past.
Youth is something that never comes back, and as much as you wanted to grow up and get rid of this thing called youth and your childhood. So you could become a young adult into an adult trust me, you have the rest of your life to grow up, so take things slow and enjoy your youth. You only get older, not younger.
