Embrace. It. All.

Survive. Never ask for love. Fear no more.

Survive.

Imagine your life as an expansive ocean, underneath a disastrous hurricane, with chaotic waves crashing against the shore of your existence. Instead of lamenting over the tide’s lost treasures, discover the real riches that its most destructive waves create. We must remember that if we survive an incorrigible tempest, we have already won. For it is in the eye of the storm, where the waves crash the hardest, where diamonds are made. The moments that nearly break us, the waves that whip us so hard we almost die, are the ones that make us.

When we regain consciousness, everything has changed. We wake up bruised, but not broken. Life can truly change in an instant, for better or for worse. I believe that even if we are experiencing the later, in retrospect, these moments will prove to be crucially important in God’s plan for us. Nothing is more motivating than the realization that you can only count on and trust in yourself.

Do not wear misfortune as a cloak of personal defeat. Wear it as a badge of unprecedented honor. Never let others’ opinions or deep-seated issues against you hold you down. Never let yourself exist in someone else’s reality. Never believe in the “when,” and the “we’s.” You will come to know that they will never happen. I’m so sorry to…