It gets worse before it gets easier.
This is a harsh saying but it is so true in ways we may not understand yet. Dear younger me, our heart gets broken more than once in our teens. The cute rat tail boy chooses someone else after three romantic teenage months. His sister does just as much damage. The first kiss is awkward, but there's much to learn from it. We learn that letting go is the best thing we could ever do for the rest of our life.
There is a college student that we find attractive, but it doesn't work out. Due to different aspirations in life. By this time dad is gone. We get through it with a strong heart.
At eighteen we met someone who seemed like the perfect end to a fairy tale, that forever that everyone is looking for. There's so much we don't know about him at first. At this point it feels safe to say he will do the most damage to our teenage years. Next time there is any doubt about someone, we run. If they are ever cruel, ever controlling, ever say something against the things we care most about, they are not safe to have in our life. And be sure to squeeze a ketchup bottle as often as possible. If there is anything I might change at all, I would say break his heart five months earlier. It's not worth keeping contact. Or maybe I'm wrong, perhaps all things have their purpose.
Never try to impress those around you, they are not important.
Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't wear, even if it's just an opinion.
It's okay to scream, whether there are people around or not.
Drive with the windows down and music loud, even if there are other drivers and it's an embarrassing song.
When the strange woman tells you that you are beautiful, you will want to think she's crazy and just saying what any girl wants to hear, even though she says she hears from god. She might be actually be right. That statement is going to be very important one day, thanks to our last heart break before we hit twenty.
Leave the people who don't prove loyal, or honest, and keep the friends that were always there even in the hard times.
Continue with the things that matter, leave behind the things that do not.
No matter how hard things get, or how it feels like the sun will never rise again, it will. Given time.
When you are driving alone with your thoughts screaming louder than the music, and you start to doubt life and this bigger picture, you think your faith is a lie, that there really isn't a god in this torture called life, take a deep breath and see what he has put in front of you. Sometimes it's a sunset, sometimes it's a person, sometimes it's something terrifying, sometimes it's something wonderful. As his children we rebel, and he takes great measures to remind us he is always there even when we don't see him. And no one is ever going to have the knowledge to persuade you to see otherwise, even when you doubt, if someone argues you will argue that he is true and faithful, because you are faithful to him. To the end. Those people who try to turn you against him will become angry, they are stubborn but they know not how you could ever be so stubborn to believe in a higher power that doesn't exist. What they don't know yet is that he does exist, and that they simply don't have the sight to see him yet. If they grow angry, let them throw their tantrum as you remain calm and always logical. They are angry because they want what you have but they can't understand it right now.
And finally, make more wishes with dandelions.
-Aspiring Photography, Lily
