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Remember that life is good. Remember that God is there for you and is always trying to show you the next step in your journey. Remember that it is His goal to make you more astonishing than you have ever dared to hope or imagine. Remember that the sun rises every morning and the moon rises every night, and even if you think you're going to die, you're not. Remember that even though there is pain, there is also joy. Zendagi migzara--life goes on. Remember the friends who have lifted you and the family that has blessed you with love. Remember to breathe. Remember that even though right now you're impatient, someday you will look back and smile and sigh and wish you had lived more in the right now. Someday you won't be 18 and stupid anymore, you'll be grown up and wiser, but wish you had known that being 18 is fun, even if you are stupid. Don't worry so much. Don't be so focused on the future. Live beautifully, live now.

Remember that you is okay. There are all those things about yourself that either you don't like, or you have little patience for. It takes you a long time to process, to work through things. You're so very slow in that way. Remember that that is okay. Everything about you is okay. God made you that way. Don't be impatient with His work. Everything and everyone else you accept in its imperfect state and say, "God made it this way. It is beautiful. It is His handiwork." Look at yourself that way and remember you're a work in progress, and every step is beautiful.

Someday you'll change something, you'll do something really important. And you'll do it your way. Nobody else can be you, and you can be nobody but yourself.

Be happy. Enjoy little things. Notice the good things that happen in your life every day that the sun rises.

Stay lovely. And smile.


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  1. Dallin WardJuly 4, 2014 at 3:18 AM

    Thank you. Just, thank you.
    God bless you, Chip.

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    1. CatherineJuly 4, 2014 at 12:20 PM

      God bless YOU, my friend. I'm glad this helped you.

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