Last week I received an e-mail from a high school student named Samantha, and though I wont share the entire e-mail, this part really struck me : "And now that I'm about to graduate from high school, I was just thinking back on my life and you were a major part of it, even though we never met."
Wherever we are in life, I feel that the good always outweighs the bad when you let it. Because life will crush you and break you repeatedly when you don't hold on to something that reminds you why you need to keep your head above the surface, and keep treading. A few nice words, an aspiration, a simple gesture, a song, a poem written by a sad thirteen year old on the other side of the world, anything. People will abandon you. Your friends will go down different paths, you'll realize you can't look up to anyone in your family and they don't understand you. Your teachers will imply that you will probably amount to nothing. People who don't even know you will judge you and make you feel small. Those closest to you will be the first ones to betray your trust.
But it doesn't matter, because you are responsible for your own happiness and peace of mind in the grand scheme of things, and if you trust yourself, that's all you need.
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