Last year, I had a thought and wrote it down in my journal: it seems people get depressed when either they feel like a failure or they feel like the world is failing them. So best to remember that neither is true :).
When you're young and, as they say, "bright-eyed," your eyes are shining and your dreams are vivid because you believe that things are possible - that beautiful, amazing, incredible things are both going to happen for you and are going to be brought about by you.
As you get older, for some reason, things seem less possible and you realize more of your own limits. But I think that things are still really possible -- incredible UNIMAGINABLE things! Maybe it's just that the things you grow to value most - the things that really really really matter - take a little more time and effort.
When you're a kid, you're fascinated by a shiny bracelet..when you're a little older, all you want is to hold a boy's hand. You want an A+ at first and then, later, you want to be published or promoted.
But it's worth remembering that the big things ARE possible -- both the ones you can do and the ones that have to be done for you. And, while you're waiting for those dreams to come true, it's worth remembering that the simple stuff, that you've laughed about and reveled in since you were a kid, are still pretty great too.
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