letters to myself

Today is my 19th birthday and the start of my Creative 19th year. This year is going to be all about personal creativity, self-expression and making tangible creative material. I’m going to do this by posting something creative or passionate on my blog every day (don’t hold me to that, nobody’s perfect:)). So today I’m going to write a letter to my present self for my future self. I really enjoy writing letters. There’s something old-fashioned and nostalgic about them. They are physical and timeless. Like a frozen snapshot of someones very thoughts at a certain moment in time. So one day far in the future, I can look back on today, May 31, 2018, my 19th birthday and remember what was inside my brain at this very moment in time. Here it goes.

Bella,

19 years ago today you made a transformational journey into this world. And ever since then, you have made the past 19 years more beautiful than you even know. You have lived more adventure, seen more of the world, learned more, experienced more, acquired more wisdom, knowledge, joy, and love than most people do in a lifetime. You have made the most out of every moment. You have never waited for things to come to you. You never took no for an answer and you have always taken the world on head first with an open heart and mind. There is so much passion and wisdom inside of you that needs to be shared with the world if you would just release it from its cage in your mind. Your world is full of infinite possibilities, all you have to do is reach out and grab them.

Never stop improving, never stop creating, never stop exploring, never stop learning and never stop shocking the world by daring to be different. Me, myself, and I know how rare it is to stray from the monotonous conventions of expectations. Never cease to stray from the herd. To follow your soul to higher places where white daisies grow out of grass-covered mountain peaks instead of accepting, like the rest, that nothing exists beyond the tops of the murky clouds. There’s always another way. There is always light at the other end of the tunnel because the tunnel itself only exists if you believe that it does. You create your own reality, your own journey, your own life. And I know better than anyone that you are going to create something beautiful, you already have. Happy 19th Birthday. -To me, from me