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The 5 things I would tell our 16 year old selves.

Updated: Apr 25, 2022

"You are depressed because you know that you are not what you should be."

Take off that mask, reveal yourself to yourself. Why are you hiding? Are you ashamed?

Don't be. I love you.

I come to an understanding of life through the people I meet and through the experiences I've had to undergo. As I get older, the thought that dawns on me the most would be the thought of who I was at 16. I definitely can say I have grown, although I couldn't have without those mishaps.


I'd like to say I am more of a hands-on kind of learner. We all have different ways of learning and becoming wise. Although I knew something was bad for me, I still did it anyway to figure out the answer to my why. Why is it bad? Why is it not good? Why do you (humans) believe I should do one thing and not the other?


Being 21 years of age has taught me that age is just a number, maturity is up to the person, and being wise is living a life of truth based on what you believe is right for you. This wise knowledge has an effect on all once you've come to understand it yourself.


I do not regret anything in my life for it has brought me so much knowledge of self. I am proud to be who I am, for where I come from, and the experiences that shaped me.


If I was standing in front of my 16-year-old self...

"stop being a little bitch"

would be the exact first words I'd express to her, yet I'd continue on and say:


1. You're strong/ You're powerful.

You've been through so much. You've not only been affected by outside circumstances out of your control, yet you've been affected by so much within your control all because you did not know how to control it. Realize that all this anger and frustration only depletes you. Transform this anxiety into something much greater, like love, and light. You are able to do this by just changing your thoughts. Not only are you transforming the neurochemistry of your brain and getting rid of all ancestral trauma, your want to do so becomes so powerful that it becomes the magnet for all good things necessary to come to you for you and your life.


2. Please be patient.

And just like the tortes won the race, slowly, he accomplished what was necessary for him. Do not be frantic like the rabbit, always trying to win, win, win. The journey is what matters. The flight of life is what helps you achieve all that you want to do. You must be okay with soaring. Do not get caught up in the end result, it has not happened yet.


3. Be present? Where are you going? Why are you trying to go there so fast? Slowly child, Slowly.

Why are we always trying to be somewhere else rather than being content right here, right now? Why are you so pressed to be everywhere else but here? With your family, with yourself? You're everywhere and yet once you're there, you regret not being where you were. Appreciate the moment. You will never have the same moment twice.


4. You're beautiful as you are- inside and out- You're Lovable.

Many of us think we aren't good enough for people yet we fail to realize that, this thought comes from really feeling as if we are not good enough for ourselves. You are worthy. You are loveable. But these characteristics and actions are only shown through how you treat yourself and then others. Take off that makeup. Now, look at yourself in that mirror. Are you proud of yourself? It's ok if you're not but learn from this. You have not failed yet learned, therefore now you can grow from it. Do it.


5. Have an acceptance towards all things.

Things come and go. Letting go is the hardest part of life. Letting go of what you thought could be, should be, how it is and is not, the person, and that feeling, is most certainly the most difficult thing we all gotta do. This is the point of life. The more we let go, the more we grow, the more we give space for good to come in. The more you accept this truth, the more at peace you'll be. Life can be chaotic yet you cannot control what is not within you. Accept this life as it is, accept people as they are- for nothing is perfect nor does anything belong to you. Watch your life transform.


-No matter what you have gone through-

We all go through life. The only thing we can control is our reaction towards it. Don't give yourself a heart attack. You'll get there and if anything, you are there. Just believe in yourself- the universe does.

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