16 days till your graduation and i wont be there so im writing this in advance. time flies because its 7 days till i finish my first year of college. to be honest, i dont even know where to begin, i am so proud of your accomplishments this year and how you pulled through as much as you didnt’ want to. you got into your dream school and will be living in your dream city and doing what you would love to do. i can go on but none of that matters as much as HOW you got yourself there. in college, you will meet people who walk in and out of your life but be PATIENT and NOT desperate, the right people will be in your life for the right reasons. remember the list of 30 things? rule #1 is that you don’t have to fight for a spot to be in someone’s life, if they want you there they will make room for you. there is no point in me telling you what you will experience in college because thats for you to discover but know that i did learn a lot and i am grateful for every second of it.
i read that, for the most part, you get in life what you deserve, and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy and that anything worth achieving is worth working for and that wishing for something to happen is different than working toward making it happen.
what we need to do is learn to stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you – or didn’t do for you – and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected. life isn’t always fair, you don’t always get what you think you deserve and that sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people…and you learn not to always take it personally. Know that nobody’s punishing you and everything isn’t always somebody’s fault. it’s just life happening and you learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges instead of walls.
on the last note, we must learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things we take for granted, things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about. then, you begin to take responsibility for yourself, by yourself, and you make yourself a promise to NEVER betray yourself and to NEVER EVER settle for less than you heart’s desire. Make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting, and to stay open to every wonderful possibility.
congratulations, another chapter is ending and its time to start a new one, be excited, be strong, you’re in control!! you’re almost at the finish line, just another sprint and you’ll be the winner! i love you! jia you~
