Dear Deme,

It is the second of November in the year two-thousand fourteen.

You are not perfect. You will never be perfect. Stop trying to achieve perfection. Save yourself.

We started our first paid job this past week...cool right? I mean its only been two long-ish shifts so far, but I think we like it. This coming Friday we are receiving a letter that will determine exactly where you are right now. Whether we get into the Foster School of Business or not, I have high hopes for us. We are going to do big things kid.

Hey kid..

Pick your head up. Stop looking down. You might not have anyone in your corner right now, life may seem like a continuous tunnel of darkness, but beauty is coming your way. You don't need to sit in your room releasing your emotions alone; coating your face with a thin layer of salt. You can stop feeling sorry for yourself -- things will get better. The bruises on your heart, your soul, your body...those will soon begin to fade. Those days where you laid in the grass beaten and destroyed will soon become stories -- just memories. They won't plague you much longer. Just keep your chin up. Look in that mirror and see. You have stopped seeing kid; you've stopped seeing yourself. Go watch the Santa Clause. Remember that quote right? I know you do. "Seeing isn't believing -- believing is seeing." Believe in yourself.

Listen.

We will become something. It doesn't matter what people have said about us. Faggot, Nigger, Fat Ass, Mistake -- they all sound the same to me. Fear. People fear us. They are afraid of our potential. The resting energy that lies within us scares the shit out of them. We have the ability to change this world and they are afraid. They are afraid of the moment when we let it all free...that moment when we can finally see. We can never stop believing in our self.

Be Ambitious. Dream. Believe. Achieve. Give. Receive.

Be Ambitious: when the world seems like a hopeless vacancy.

Dream: when you need to escape your demons and discover your purpose.

Achieve: every ambitious daydream that resides within.

Give: your entire self to the world.

Receive: all of the beauty that you know you deserve.


You can never stop,

Deme