Please, for the sake of everything good in this life, find something you love—something that feels the exact same as taking a big breath—-and do it until you physically, mentally or otherwise cannot do it anymore. Do it until they lock you up. Do it until you’re old and grey. Do it until it’s not feasibly possible. Don’t sell yourself short and don’t fill up your mouth with “I can’t”s. Listen, life is hard sometimes. There are days when you’re going to want to fistfight everything and everyone, and there are nights when all of the nightmares you keep tucked under your collar crawl back into your head. But don’t you dare wake up without some fight left in you. 

When I was thirteen, if I could have looked ahead and known that at twenty I was going to know the people I do, see the things that I have, experience all of these feelings so deeply, I would’ve passed out cold.

So please, for the sake of this sometimes rotten planet. For the sake our generation and any one that comes after it. For the sake of your happiness. Shake your fists in the face of all the things people told you that you couldn’t be, and prove them entirely wrong.

We will all thank you in the end.