wonderstruck.

Was looking back on my Facebook messages last night and found this one from a university friend of mine. She sent me these completely inspirational words after a brief conversation with her via Facebook chat while I was living in a hostel -- feeling a little bit defeated by the daunting big city of London. Thank you to her for sending these along, without them, I'm not sure if I would still be here. I hope you'll read them and be as inspired as I felt after reading them - no matter where you are in your life. 

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health and happiness to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!

So fail. Be bad at things. Be embarrassed. Be afraid. Be vulnerable. Go out on a limb or two or twelve, and you will fall & it'll hurt. But the harder you fall, the farther you will rise. The louder you fail, the clearer your future becomes. Failure is a gift, welcome it. There are people who spend their whole lives wondering how they became the people they became, how certain chances passed them by, why they didn't take the road less traveled. Those people aren't you. You have front row seats to your own transformation, and in transforming yourself, you might even transform the world, and it will be electric, & I promise you it will be terrifying. Embrace that; embrace the new person you're becoming. This is your moment. I promise you, it is now, not two minutes from now, not tomorrow, but really now. Own that; know that deep in your bones, and go to sleep every night knowing that, wake up every morning remember that, and then...keep going.