Dear 16 year old Trisha, Girl, I know i am supposed to tell you how lovely and beautiful you are, and i suppose all of those things are true, but here, my first thought about you is that you are kind of strange. Just a little. Not so much that you have trouble blending. The truth is, i love you for it. Own your lankiness, never apologize and please, for the love, never, ever cry about it. While you are there rocking your quirks, give your friends a hug. I know, you are not a big hugger (yet) but those ones you have known since you were 5, they will ground you now and forever. These friends will be mostly responsible for honing your odd sense of humor, and that is a gift, even if no one else in the room sees it that way. Be kind to them, always. Love them for every amazing thing they are. Wanna know who else is funny? Your mom. She will teach you so much about compassion, sacrifice and how to heal every heartbreak with a new eye shadow and salon blow dry. Now, go give your mom a hug. Really confuse her and give her a kiss. She will change the world for you. Please do it now because she is not going to be there for you long enough. Okay. Deep breath. He is cute, has a Hugh Grant hairstyle, wears torn denim & leather jacket and that combination proves disastrous for you. Before long, you feel stuck. Heres the thing: you are not stuck! Your instincts are almost always right. Listen to them right now. Dont waste one more day feeling bad about yourself or pretending that everything is going to be fine when he got himself a crew cut. He is not going to grow his hair long again. Stop believing that he will do it just for you. Sometimes the kindest thing we can do is walk away. You will be amazed at the life ahead of you, so full of surprises and yeah, some pain, but mostly redemption and beauty. You have already learned how to love life well, how to notice the details and elevate them. Thanks for that. Go eat some paani puri, one of your earliest, truest loves. Read a fashion magazine. (You wont ever strut the cat walk, but you will never stop loving the idea.) Keep fighting for the under-dog - you cant imagine where that instinct will find you later on. Talk to God more, not because people say you should, but because you will find grace there, and that grace changes everything. Fierce love, Todays Trisha
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:59:31 +0000
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