Age

If you choose to live, growing chronologically older is mandatory; growing up is a choice; feeling young is a state of mind.  Don't let other people tell you what to feel about yourself.  It is their faults and failures that they force upon you. Be who you are, become who you want to be, do what you desire as long as it hurts no one including yourself.  Be good, be kind, be free, speak freely, speak your mind, do what is important, be important because you are.  Life is full of pain and sorrow. Everyone will leave you somehow, be it through choice or by death.  Love those you love.  Love those who love you. Dance when you need to move. Feel everything, do everything, be everything.  Put all of yourself in everything you do.  Be in the present moment.  You are your past, your present, and your future all at the same time.  Do not dwell on what once was, just learn and grow.  Do not settle for less than you deserve, or what you think you might deserve.  Be free.  Freedom is our right as human beings.  Take it.  Use it.  Love it.  Stop selling yourself short. Stop putting limitations on yourself that you have been told to do.  Except no rejection as a rejection upon yourself.  You are beautiful.  You are strong, even when you feel your weakest.  Cry if you need to, just don't let the bullies see you do it. Be safe. Be sound. Just be.