One day you wake up and realize your nearly 24, you look at yourself in the mirror and become so aware of all the ways your face changed and hasn't. You look in the reflection and you find that 16 year old kid, still crying. At least there is some comfort in time and change. You can tell your old self "Mom got better, Your still just like your dad, Grandma is still around, you finally found love that matters and is real and will last. You get to be beautiful, you get to learn alot, you finally learned how to draw and you enjoy it so much. You've learned how much you love to watch the birds, you learned how smart you acutally are, and it is better."
But you also have to apologize. You have to be at peace with what you let down too. "We do get sicker, I thought we would die it gets so bad. You never lose the fear, you just grow into it. We haven't recorded any music like I said we would. We don't really have a best friend anymore, the isolation put us in a weird postion with most people. Im sorry we got skinny again, Im sorry we still have breakdowns, and Im sorry we sill feel lost."
But we are okay right? Through every change somehow im still here, Im still me. Im more me than I ever thought i would be. I think i found things and people that truly matter for my life and I think ill always have them around. Even with time moving and things going slow, its not like we ever truly stop right? Even a day where i do nothing, isn't a day I stopped. I survived. I prevailed. Im proud of that, im proud of living and the steps ive taken. Im even proud of my regrets, which were simply lessons. So yeah, Im 24 soon; so much older than I feel im ready to wear. But we made it, we will keep making it, and it will only get better.