To my older and hopefully more mature self,

I hope with all my heart that you are happy. I hope that whatever you have decided to do with your life is everything that you have prayed it would be plus more. I hope that when you wake up in the mornings you are excited to go to a job you love. I hope that when you come home after, you come home to a house that makes you happy; whether there's a husband and kids or just a few dogs. I hope it's everything you'd thought it be while growing up.

I know growing up was scary at times. There were a few times you questioned if you would end up happy. That however was your sixteen year old self talking; I hope you aren't still listening to her.

Up until the time I was sixteen I had my whole life planned out. I knew what I wanted to major in and I knew what I wanted to do for a living after college. A few months ago that all changed and it seemed that my world was flipped upside down. I didn't know what do to if I'm being honest.

I spent several nights looking up colleges and looking at requirements for each college. This only stressed me out more because I began realizing that I had little to know experience in the field I wanted to go in versus the field I had been telling myself I was going into.

Yeah, I probably put myself through a bunch of a needed stress at the time. The late nights were probably one to many, but I did what I thought was necessary. Hard work pays off right? I pray that this hard work will pay off.

I hope that by working my butt off now, you can be happy later on. You don't have to married or have an apartment in the Upper East Side. You just have to happy with how your life turned out.