Letter from a wonderful girl to anyone who needs it…
“Words of hope for people trying to live out their dream or do what they want to do, what they want to accomplish. My number one thing I think I can say is that for one, it gets better. When you’re going through middle school, high school, heck maybe even college, whether it be two years or four or eight, those are chapters of your life, and those aren’t your book. I was once told that every day is a page, every era is a chapter. You live that’s the first page, and you die that’s the end. there’s no point living your life through your book, if when you get to the end of your book, you look back to the end and think wow what just happened? What did I do? What was that chapter? What was this chapter? What was that page? What was this? I was told to live a life that’s significant. To be happy. To really I guess enjoy your 100 years, your 50 years, your could be 16 or 17 years that you have of your life.
Each page is like a whole new story. You take time to turn the page. That’s your life. You have one day to turn each page. You look back and enjoy it, and think about each chapter. This isn’t a four disc series. It’s not the twilight series. There’s not going to be another book. There’s your book and whatever you’re going through right now is your chapter and it’s not going to just end that way. Just don’t think high schools so rough that I can’t get through this. “This guy bullies me. This girl picks on me, and this teacher is a piece of you know what, you know I hate going to gym because I just don’t fit in. I would rather do something else. You know I hate my parents, I hate my home life, I cut myself or I’ve tried to kill myself or I ran away from home.” You know, anything of that sort of chapter.
You feel like when you’re there, the chapters are going to keep going. Well, they don’t, and I wish someone would have told me what I’m saying now, because I feel like every chapter I was living was a book, and that was my entire book. But it’s not. I feel like I’m on my fourth chapter, fifth maybe. Hopefully I’m not on my 10th or 11th yet. I think to give you hope is to know that it’s either going to get better, or it’s going to get different, and I can guarantee you that you just have to stay strong. You have to remember who you are, even if you don’t know exactly who you are. I’m still not sure exactly who I am quite yet, but you can know who you want to be, or you can know what you want to find. You can know what you want to do. And if you don’t know what you want, you can dream. Dream big. If you want to do six different things, then do them all because you never know what could happen, or what life has to offer. I just know it gets better. So enjoy your chapter. Enjoy your page. And don’t finish your book without getting the most out of it.”
– Abby 14
