Dear Younger Me, Here Is Something I Wanted To Tell You.
Hi, there! There are a lot of things I want to share with you. May be one day (if time travel becomes a reality) when you'll read it you'll get a way out of whatever it is that's holding you up. Without wasting much of your time, here I go:
Please stop over thinking. You know you do and right now you may not be realizing it but it will give you sleepless nights, literally. Stop right now.
Have patience. You seriously lack it and it will cost you, dearly.
Don't feel lonely. True you do not have friends. But just have patience. The best is yet to come.
Don't be sad for what you don't have. You have a lot right now and you will lose a huge chunk of it. Then what? Will you be sad then also and cry and waste your time? Don't be sad.
10th or 12th or even your graduation doesn't matter much. Learn to enjoy what you love and for that learn to find what you love.
No one appreciates your sketching. Don't worry. You love doing it right? So just do it.
You don't go to those summer vacation camps and all. Don't be sad or angry at your parents. They're doing a great deal for you. You'll realize it later. Love them more.
Don't keep grudges. I know you don't but you will and it'll be wrong. Don't.
A lot of people will come in your life. And a great many will leave also. Even those you never thought would. Let them go. They were not meant to stay.
But then there would also be some for whom you should move heavens to be with them. They will teach you a lot of things and will make your life amazing. Never let them go. Never give up on them.
People have broken your trust. And yet you trust people. It’s good but keep a balance. You will find people who will respect your trust. And you should respect theirs in return.
You have learned to live in your own dream world. May be you need it right now but don't continue it. You need to go out and see other worlds.
You have an immense capacity to imagine and create stuff. Use it. Create anything. Just do it.
Never demean yourself in front of others. Or let it happen.
Never blame others. Right now you do. Don't. And in future also you'll blame yourself. Don't. Forgive yourself just as you would forgive others.
There are innumerable things I wanna tell you but I'll stop and end this with 3 most important advises:
- Blood is always thicker than water. Always.
- Be sincere with yourself and others. And especially in this fickle and fragile world. Every word you utter should be true and from your heart. If it’s not from your heart then don’t say it. And if you say it then stick by it. You'll find all that you do not have right now. Trust me on this one.
- You can overcome any adversity. Your worst nightmare will multiply itself with your other nightmares and come. Again and again. But believe me, you will overcome those too. Someone will tell you 'that you're much stronger than you think.' Listen to her for she is goddamn right.
