Dear Younger Me

Dear Younger Me.

I was listening to the lyrics of this song the other day and this part hit me pretty hard.

“Dear younger me. I cannot decide. Do I give some speech about how to get the most out of your life. Or do I go deep? And try to change the choices that YOU made cause they're the choices that made ME.”

Oh, how many times I’ve wished I could go back in time and dish out some really good grown up advice to Younger Me.

“Skip that, don’t miss this, go here, don’t bother with them.” You get the point.

And I think about the bad choices, miss opportunities and failed relationships. Would life have been easier with out all that “hard stuff”?

No doubt.

But every experience, encounter, relationship and decision is a stitch in the tapestry of my life.

The laughs, the tears, the arguments, the reconciliations, the failures and the victories make up the colors and textures. And without even a single one the landscape would change.

So while it sounds nice to save Younger Me from the painful moments, I know they are part of what makes me who I am today.

The good, the bad and the ugly (and the beautiful). It’s perfectly imperfect, this thing we call life.

With gratitude.