Pep Talk: If you temporarily veered off path and forgot that you’re working toward a tangible goal, that’s OK. You can start over right now. It doesn’t matter how far you may have gotten off track. As of this moment, you’re heading in the right direction again.
Today remind yourself: Recommit.
Pep Talk: You can see the benefit of a difficult choice and that is a rare, unselfish ability. It makes me glad to know that your steady compassion and unclouded judgment can be counted on even in emotional times. You make others comfortable and it’s easy to trust you, because you seem to have everyone’s best interest at heart.
Today remind yourself: I can make hard choices.
Pep Talk: Your decisions usually turn out to be right and this one will be no different. You haven’t made any fatal errors so far and I’d call that a pretty good track record. Trust your judgment. Save yourself all the hemming and hawing and just do whatever you want. You’re going to anyway.
Today remind yourself: Follow your heart.
So you got in. A million congrats, my darling. This school obviously has good taste and they’re lucky to have you. You’re going to have more exciting, bizarre experiences than you can imagine and, with your open mind, you’ll grow from them all. College will, of course, be a little different than you expect, so you’re going to roll with the punches. You’re going to be strong and brave. You’re going to protect yourself, as always, because you’re precious and your safety is important. You’re going to absorb life as it comes and learn everything you can. You’re going to be great. You already are.
So you didn’t get in. Oh fucking well, their loss. You know, rejection is very often a gift. It tells you, “Psst, you’re supposed to go this way instead. There’s something even better for you over here.” This is not a set back. This is a new chance. You’re needed elsewhere. You shine everywhere you go and in everything you do and that will continue to be true as you march into your unknowable future. You’re on to bigger and better things than you’d planned.
Either way, today remind yourself: Que sera sera.
Pep Talk: There is beauty all around you and you can choose to see it. Now, I don’t know for sure, but I’d be willing to bet that you weren’t put on this planet so that you could roll your eyes and just barely tolerate everything. You can decide to see the world as exciting place with opportunities around every corner because, for a sharp person like you, that’s precisely what it is. Stop thinking. Open your eyes. See, experience, feel. These moments are your life and they’re wonderful.
Today remind yourself: My eyes are open.
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