What a hard question to answer. I would
love to protect myself from all the heartbreak. Stop myself from walking down
the paths that would just lead to sadness and disappointment. Avoid meeting the
wrong people and making devastating decisions. Ones that would have an impact
on my life forever.
However, without these I would never have learned
the very valuable lessons I have in my life. I would never have known what was good. I would
never have known what made me happy. I would never have known what to stay away
from and where to gravitate. I would not have known how to fill my cup and how
to keep my heart safe.
So I guess that my advice would not be
around what to do and where to go. It would be about my state of mind. And my
state of self. I would have reassured myself from a young age that no matter
how many people say they don’t love me, I will always be loved by ME. That no
matter how unstable the world around me felt, the Universe would always have my
back. And when I fell, I would still be able to see the stars. That the people
that I met along my journey would be my greatest teachers. My greatest allies. My
greatest deceptors. My biggest hurts and my biggest loves. Just to always remember
that everything I needed was right inside. And I only had to reach inside and
it would be right where I needed it to be.
And always just to be kind to myself. I am
doing the very best I can.
