The Best Advice

If I were to give you advice, the most valuable advice I can ever give to you would be this:

You will never be anyone but yourself. You were born in your skin and you will die in your skin. Learn to love yourself because if you don't love yourself, you don't respect yourself. How can others respect you if you don't even respect yourself? YOU are incredibly unique because there is no other person who walks this earth that is you. They don't look like you, speak like you, or act like you. Yes, everyone has flaws and nobody is perfect. Which is why you just have to be the perfect YOU that you can be. Everyone can improve in many ways, whether it's getting better at something, losing weight, gaining weight, etc. What really hurts me is when I see blogs cluttered  with girls that are toothpick thin and comments saying "I really wish I was this small." 

STOP comparing yourself to other people. You will never look like or be that person, you will only be you. You are already extraordinary, you just can't see it yet. If you want to see it, close your eyes. Eyes can only see the exterior and material things. Close your eyes and open your heart. Open your mind to new things. Change your way of thinking. You are so incredibly amazing that it sickens me you do not see it. You can do anything you set your mind to. 

Don't drop your goals of losing weight just because I am telling you that you are perfect the way you are... but don't obsess over getting rid of everything but your flesh and bones.

If I were to give you one piece of advice that would dramatically change your life, it would be:

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

BE. YOU.

Ever Changing

I am constantly rearranging my mind. Just always trying to reprogram it so I can think of an alternative career to singing, but I keep coming back to it. I've changed my mind about it at least 18 times just to change it back. I don't understand why I cannot find anything else in this huge world that takes my interest and locks it up so I can't take it back. IT'S SO FRUSTRATING. I graduate in about 7 months. Everyone is submitting college applications, receiving scholarships, getting acceptance letters, while I am stuck here, rotting in my very own uncertainty about what I want to do with my life. I do have a plan, but I don't know how good my plan is. I suppose I should just try to get through high school first, and THEN think of things to do, but I don't want time to fly forward 5 years and I'm still pondering what it is I want to do. 

I've been trying to live in the moment as much as I can, but career wise, I only exist in the future. I don't understand why it's so hard for me. I mean, I know not everyone knows what they want to do with their life, but I am not like everyone else. I am me. I don't have to follow their pattern, I can create my own. 
This is a bit off topic but I feel like talking about this. I really need to let it out. At least have one person trace my thoughts on a screen. I am in love with old ways, and I recently met someone who is on the same page as me. We're still different, which is great, but we're similar also. I wish more teenagers looked at life like this. Nowadays everyone is wrapped up in technology and Facebook; that is lost time. And, "Lost time is never found again" -- Ben Franklin. I know, in a way I could be contradicting myself seems as how I'm currently using the internet, writing on blogger... but to me blogger is different! You get to write about your life ;) or better yet anything you want! It's not as time consuming as Facebook. I've just been thinking a lot about how life is changing as we introduce all these high-tech bidness into the world. Seriously, sixth graders have iPhones now, what's up with that? 

Lesson of the day:

Trust yourself. Don't be afraid to say what you want to say, it only takes 20 seconds of courage :)