I hope you have the confidence to be you and courage to pursue what you want with no regrets.
I hope you genuinely smile and laugh, with or without a reason.
I hope you keep learning and keep growing as a human being.
I hope you keep pushing forward.
I hope you achieve or continue to retain inner peace, and I hope you love yourself for all that you are and all that you are becoming.
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This is not a random meme and to see it decontextualised in such a way is beyond disturbing. The text above is the suicide note of MarShawn McCarrel, a poet, homelessness advocate and black lives matter activist who died at age 23 on the 8th February 2016, here is an article on mental health struggles for Black Lives Matter advocates and on McCarrel, his art, his advocacy, his life and the struggles that led to him leaving this earth.
forgive yourself. whether you fail a test, eat too many cookies, say the wrong thing, fail a class, or spend a whole day in bed — learn to forgive yourself. the next day will be better. the next day will be a day closer to your next success. you can do it.
please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future.
“You cannot care about what anyone else thinks. You must not allow for yourself to become shackled to others’ thoughts. They are not you. You are not them. Thus, it is only your own self perception that truly matters, for you are the one and only owner of yourself.”
— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
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