Everything changes.
I mean everything. You. Me. Your parents. Your friends. Your body. Your current situation. Your culture, your country, the shape of the AC adapter on MacBooks (really, Apple, stop it). One year from now, five years from now, ten years from now everything will be different, perhaps not in ways you'll be able to recognize, but it won't be what it was. All of us, everything, is constantly changing.
That, of course, means that nothing good will last. All the warm, fuzzy, fun things and people you wish would last forever most definitely will not. They will come to an end. Eventually.
However, that also means that nothing bad will last forever either. All the crap that's bringing you down right now, that's making you feel worthless or scaring you shitless or is just plain unpleasant, it won't last forever. Will it get better? *Shrugs. We don't get to know that until it is, or isn't. But know that your shit situation will change.
The older you get, the more you'll recognize this cycle of change -- the ebb and flow of good and bad, happy and sad – and you'll begin to realize none of it is all good or all bad. It's just stuff that happens that you like or don't like, but that you have to deal with regardless. And then it's gone.
So, if you can, try to learn to roll with it without clinging. It really helps.
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