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Letter to My Younger Self

Dear thirteen year old me,

This is you...from fifteen years in the future. I am writing to help you prepare for the things that you will need to face in the next fifteen years of your life.

In the coming years, you will realize life is not going to be exactly the way you had read in your storybooks. Over the next years, you will need to make some important life decisions, regarding your future education, your career choices, etc. Not all of them are going to make your family always happy. Some of them will rather bring a lot of disappointment to the people you really care about. But don't worry...find your courage to fight for those dreams.

Over the next coming years, you will lose some very important people in your life. People without whom you had never imagined your life. Those won't be easy times. But you will need to get through those phases too. You will need to take care of yourself as well as your loved ones. Be prepared! You will also be losing on most of those friends with whom you have shared your classrooms, lunchboxes and all secrets for thirteen years of your life. They will move on...and so will you.

Over the next years, you will move to a new city. A strange city. You will not know the language of that place, nor will you like the food there. You will feel weak. You will feel like giving up and going back home. But don't. Because, along with the hardships of adapting to a new environment, you will also be blessed with some great friends. Friends who will end up being your family away from your family.

Dear young and innocent me, just like by now you know Santa Clause is not real, with the time you will realize those fairy tales that you currently believe in are also not real. Perfect love stories are tough to find. Not all good men you meet will be your prince charming. Time and again you will have your heart broken. You will need to fight through all those moments of pain and come out stronger every time.

Don't be scared, dear young me, life won't be bad at all. In the next fifteen years, you will learn to love yourself...and that would be one of the most important learnings for you. You will find some great companions in the way of your journey through these years. Some will stick around, some will change paths after a while, some will come back...but all of them will leave their mark and teach you something new.

With time, you will also discover your passion for traveling. You will walk through frozen rivers, climb dangerous mountains and ride through rough terrains...and will you love them all! You will learn to open those invisible wings and fly.

Dear young me, while you make this journey of the upcoming years, do thank all the people you meet for all the memories and experiences you create together. Do forgive the ones who will cause you pain. The next few years are going to be beautiful...so live as much as you can!

I will now go to explore more...and maybe write back again in another ten years. Till then, take care of yourself and be your best version...always.

~ Cheers,
Your fifteen year older version!
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