Senior Year - A Collection of Work

Letter to Grandchilden

Dear Grandchildren,

It has been sometime since I've taken my own advice and put down in words for others to read it, but here it is. Throughout your life people and life itself will put you down, kick you under the bus, and will try to get you to quit life all together. The reality of it all is that it's life eff'd up way of getting you to become stronger than you were. As you experience troubling things in your life I only hope you look back at this letter and remember that despite all of what is going on there will always be advice for you.

Tip #1: Do not ever give up on yourself. People will do whatever they can to get you to want to give up, they will hate on you with or without reason. What really matters is that you don't give up on who you are and to never give up trying. When I was younger I was put down over and over again, I was told to quit doing what I love because it won't get me far in life and how I'll end up like my mother. I almost gave up but when I sat back and looked at what all that was happening to me that was good because of what I was doing I didn't give up. Once you realize if you be true who you are the right people will come to you.

Tip #2: Don't ever push people who are trying to help you. There are real and fake people, you have to decide who is real and who is fake, but when you are in pain and need help from other people you cannot push them away. I watched my little sister do that, when family and friends were genuinely trying to help her. I have watched family and friends go down that dark, dark path all because they decided that everyone is fake and didn't want people to help them get better. It would kill me to see my own grandchildren go down those same dark desolate paths.

Tip #3: Don't force something that isn't meant to be. This is going to be extremely hard to do, at age of 17 at the time I am writing this I personally am still having so much trouble following this own piece of advice. Once you start making friends and dating people and they start showing signs of wanting to leave you cannot force something to stick around when they don't want to be there anymore. Love, true love, will come on its own terms. You can never force someone to love them, you cannot have them reciprocate the same feelings ever. I feel terrible for saying this, but it's true, if you are using force you have become controlling and can become abusive. Please, don't force anything.

These three tips are general life tips will help you go far in your amazing life. I only want the very best for you so I can only hope you will follow these tips. If you go to other family members they will tell you almost the exact same advice as I am telling you now. It has been time since I typed this, but I will still tell you the same advice no matter what, so please respect yourself, let others help you, and don't force a single thing in life. You are you, and you need to stay that way.

With my dearest love,

Grandma