1. You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

I have always wanted approval from everyone about anything I do. I would
change the way I wanted to do something because someone didn’t want me to
do that. Now, I feel like I would do whatever I want and no one in the world can
tell me to do otherwise because you learn from your own mistakes and here, I
am willing to make 100 mistakes if that’s what it takes to grow.
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only
you give it power.
I have been through a rough childhood, and till last year I would blame everything
i did on my past and my mother who left me when I was little. My stepfather now,
always told me that I give power to the past and so I cant move on. It took me
quite a long time to figure out what he meant. But once you let it go, you choose
what you want to do, and no matter what you go through doesn’t affect that.

2. If a freshman asked me what I knew, I would tell them that the only thing i know for sure
is who I am.