milqi:

dsudis:

lemonsharks:

what my parents told me: you can do anything if you set your mind to it

what I wish my parents had told me: sometimes you will fail, and it will be scary and it will suck, but you will probably not die

I would also have appreciated: the fact that you can do something if you try very, very hard, does not actually obligate you to spend your life putting forth maximum effort to achieve it. It is okay to not be 1000% driven by life-consuming ambition and instead be satisfied with something less difficult.

It wouldn’t have hurt to hear:  Sometimes, no matter how hard you try or how right you are, life will be unfair.  But you probably won’t die.