on turning twenty one-

at twenty-one i know:

 getting older is a gift, not a curse.

dreams come true, but you have to want them to the point of making them happen.

love is really what all the great poets write about, 

and heartbreak hurts just as much the third time as it did the first.

you can never love someone as much as you can miss them.

you are a reflection of your thoughts, you are only as beautiful as your heart.

words can bring life, and at the same time end it.

your parents were right.

you can travel the world and return the same, 

or you can return changed for the better, it is up to you.

never stop dancing, never stop dreaming, and always give thanks.

worship is not just singing songs, it is a lifestyle.

you'll continuously learn what friendship means.

you must constantly and courageously choose to choose love.

books have the ability to resemble your life.

you are never really far from those you love.

tomorrow can shift your course abruptly, quite significantly.

if they love you, distance is not an obstacle, it is an adventure.

breathe.

 let go.

you are brave, you are a force to be reckoned with.

give yourself more credit.

you are twenty-one years younger, twenty-one years bolder, 

twenty-one years humbler, twenty-one years more beautiful.

twenty-one years more you.