live as if you will die tomorrow and dream as if you will live forever.

"Do you ever feel like you've been holding back? Like you haven't laughed as hard as you know you can laugh and run as hard as you know you can run and sung the true song of your soul? This is your year. Immerse yourself in life. Have brownies for breakfast. Skate. Enjoy old people. Jump in the deep end. Work really hard. Give with reckless abandon. Paint something. Read a book you don't yet understand. Cry till your nose runs. Love with your whole heart. Lift your face to the sun."

i turn my swag on.

dear young me.

Dear Young Me,

Don't do anything different. Think of it as a learning experience. Become a better person because of it.

-Older Me

in twenty years, what do you want to remember?

because girl you've got it.

To the woman who is reading this:

If you are young, teenaged, middle-aged, elderly, wrinkled, freckled, light-skinned, dark-skinned, tall, short, curvy, petite…whatever….just know that the unique combination of those types of words is exactly what you are….UNIQUE.

Dear, you are BEAUTIFUL! I am amazed by you even though I have never met you. You have such a great smile, a light in your eyes, and a personality that is like an original work of art- it might try to be replicated, but it can never be the same. Media is WRONG; you are a well-made, strong, intelligent, lovely woman. Don’t forget that!

Remember that looks will fade and that people are not perfect; there is no such thing as “perfect beauty”, so don’t let anyone or anything tell you that you must be this, that, or the other to be considered beautiful and desirable. YOU ARE! Stop being so critical! You are fine the way that God made you, and someday, someone else will believe you are the mostly exquisitely crafted person put on this planet.

People that say mean or negative things are insecure of themselves and are threatened by your beauty….because girl you’ve got it! You are a MASTERPIECE! Tell yourself that each day. When you get ready to leave for school/work/wherever, look at yourself in the mirror and compliment yourself, buy pretty panties (they make a difference), feel sexy because you are sexy, do something for YOU every now and then, and when someone insults you, try your hardest to smile or even say a compliment back: a lovely and kind soul is a beauty that never fades or goes out of style.

So remember….you ARE beautiful…truly.

Sincerely,

Another Woman

letters i'll never send. 

thumbs up everybody.

go confidently in the direction of your dreams.