If you feel things deeply,if you are going through something that is uncomfortable or painful,or hard — you often have to decide between allowing yourself to dive into those emotions, or allowing yourself to numb them. A lot of human beings choose to numb their experience of the world.  A lot of human beings tell themselves that it's all too much, that it is all too inconvenient, to deal with the circumstance that they're in. And it is often not their fault. In a world that has given us so many ways to kill our pain.  We try to protect ourselves, but if I learned one thing last year + this year, it is that pain demands to be felt. It will show up in other ways if we do not deal with it.

 And as you move forward, I hope you have the courage to do things differently, to be the kind of person who takes the risk to be the kind of person who leads with their heart and shows up in their life with a ruthless dedication to learning,and growing and enjoying the moments of their life. I hope you have the courage to trust the part of yourself that knows there's more out there for you, the part of yourself that is easy to quiet when you're trying to live by the rules and the expectations from the world that we are living in. 

  I hope you have the courage to trust the part of yourself that seeks freedom from  those trends, from those boundaries, and I hope you have the courage to go after whatever it is that genuinely makes you want to get up in the morning. I hope you have the courage to find the things in life that deepen your understanding of the world and those within it. I hope you fight for a future that inspires you, that makes you a better person from before, even if it doesn't look the way you thought it would. I hope you have the courage to change. Try to trust in the person you're becoming. Everything needs time, take your time, don't rush things.  You deserved to be chosen. You deserved to be loved the way you love others. At the end of the day, you deserve to be inspired by your life. I hope you never forget that.