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Okay, so here's the idea: we all write a letter to ourselves as we were ten years ago. Let me begin.
Dear 8-year-old self,
You're awesome. Never allow anyone to tell you any different. In ten years from now, you'll be prideful, intelligent, weird, good-looking, hot-tempered, funny, and likeable, and so much more. You have everything you need within your own soul.
In ten years from now, you will have survived two suicide attempts and a night spent on a train station in Brisbane. You are far stronger and far braver than anyone ever gives you credit for. But here's the catch: for that first bit I mentioned, you can never tell anyone. Your parents would disown you and your friends would never understand.
You're doomed to lose all the friends you care about the most because they're all in the year above you. They go out and they move on with their lives, but you're left behind at school and it'll almost destroy you from the inside at first. But you have everything you need in yourself.
When the storms within your own mind seem to be at their worst, just remember the following verse:
You gotta be both funny and hard,
Coz if you can only jest your way into the fold;
You aint strong enough to remain the lone wolf.
And if you're only hard;
You can't jest your way to becoming the wolf in the fold
When you need to be that the most.
You wrote that when you were 16. You learned a great deal about people and yourself in the week leading up to you writing that. Hell, the people on the forum I first post this on will question you because of what you learned, but you know within your own heart it's true.
By the way, don't expect to get along with your parents in your teenage years. Very few of us do.
Sincerely yours,
Johnnybabe
Dear 8-year-old self,
You're awesome. Never allow anyone to tell you any different. In ten years from now, you'll be prideful, intelligent, weird, good-looking, hot-tempered, funny, and likeable, and so much more. You have everything you need within your own soul.
In ten years from now, you will have survived two suicide attempts and a night spent on a train station in Brisbane. You are far stronger and far braver than anyone ever gives you credit for. But here's the catch: for that first bit I mentioned, you can never tell anyone. Your parents would disown you and your friends would never understand.
You're doomed to lose all the friends you care about the most because they're all in the year above you. They go out and they move on with their lives, but you're left behind at school and it'll almost destroy you from the inside at first. But you have everything you need in yourself.
When the storms within your own mind seem to be at their worst, just remember the following verse:
You gotta be both funny and hard,
Coz if you can only jest your way into the fold;
You aint strong enough to remain the lone wolf.
And if you're only hard;
You can't jest your way to becoming the wolf in the fold
When you need to be that the most.
You wrote that when you were 16. You learned a great deal about people and yourself in the week leading up to you writing that. Hell, the people on the forum I first post this on will question you because of what you learned, but you know within your own heart it's true.
By the way, don't expect to get along with your parents in your teenage years. Very few of us do.
Sincerely yours,
Johnnybabe
