i cannot stress to you how important it is to listen to your own heart and to live your own life. don’t allow yourself to be influenced by what other people are doing. move at your own pace. if you want to take a gap year, do it. if you want to keep living with your parents, do it. if you don’t want to drink alcohol, don’t. if you’re not ready to have sex, don’t. living someone else’s life or giving into peer pressure will get you in trouble or down a path you wish you hadn’t gone down.
set your own rules. be authentic. rest. grow. learn. give yourself time to figure things out. give yourself time and space to be who you really are. and be just that.
(via whimsicalwander)