Dear younger self,

There will be times in your life when you’re going to wake up feeling as though you’ve just experienced Hell on Earth, you’ll want to get far away from your responsibilities but then in some cases you won’t and everything will turn out fine, eventually. I’m well aware that you think you have patience to spare and sure, when it comes to others, you do but you also need to be patient with your own life. Just please, for the love of God, don’t get so patient that you just sit on the sidelines waiting for life to happen. You will only hurt yourself more.

 As cliche as this may sound, you can make things happen if you just stick to them. You have so much talent that people often envy you, yet you don’t even bat an eyelash when they say so. It may seem either really difficult or way too easy to apply any of your potential depending on the situation, just do it though, hesitating has only proven to make things harder on you on an emotional level.

What I’m trying to say here is that, the longer you put things off (which you will) the more discouragement is going to control your decisions (which it has) and you will end up a lot less happy than you could have been. I’m not saying you need to make good decisions quickly and on the first try, I’m simply saying that you need to at least put some effort into your life. You will feel accomplished and satisfied and when you make mistakes, you’ll be more confident when it comes to bouncing back from them.

So please, learn this now before you spend years putting your own life on hold. You’ll thank me later.

Sincerely,
Yourself