HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEST FRIEND
hopefully youāre reading this right now and i didnt fuck everything up. idk what im doing
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as you read this, I am currently in basic training (probably crying?? lol) and am missing every single important future date of my best friends life yay thnx @ military
side notes: dont be offended or upset if you dont hear from me (maybe even at all during basic), sometimes weāre not even allowed to send letters (its all up to our MTIās.) so if you dont hear from me, its not on purpose. I probably only have a 5 minute phone call a week so communicate with my mom to see how im doing.Ā
so, today is your birthday and youāre a fucking old ass lady now. welcome to adulthood. enjoy doing taxes and spending $200 on a textbook. welcome to the world of no high school. I know its hard to imagine since youre not graduated yet and this is all youve known for the past 12 years, but its coming. (its not that scary dont worry).Ā
Iām really fucking annoyed because Iām currently missing every single major life event that youre experiencing. Iām sorry Iām missing your 18th birthday, your Gradnite (if youre going) (definitely go) (seriously, go.), youre graduation (u excited hoe?), your enlistment. .. but i hope you understand.Ā
well, what can i say about my little jenny
i love you. first and foremost. youre my everything. always have been, always will be. even when weāre down each others throats, weāre still eachothers baes. youāre stronger than you give yourself credit for. i hope you realize that. youre too damn hard on yourself 24/7. stop it. youre beautiful inside and out and you can accomplish anything that you set your mind to. the world is at your fingertips now. youre almost out of high school. its up to you now to make shit happen and be the rockstar that youre destined to be.
going to change gears a bit and go on a Jesus tangent. bear with me.Ā
Ā I hope your faith hasnt diminished, but I personally believe that everything happens for a reason. if it ends up happening, it ends up happening. if it doesnt, it wasnt mean to be.Ā all the shit youve been through happened for a reason. If you never struggled with the things that you have, you never wouldāve been able to empathize with others who needed your support. Bad times only make you more knowledgable. Likewise, all of the good things youāve experienced happened for a reason. People are placed in your life for different purposes and I hope that my presence was a good one.Ā
I hope you understand that you donāt need to commit intellectual suicide in order to believe in a higher power. Humans donāt know EVERYTHING. I think spirituality is too complex for humans to wrap their heads around. I donāt know about you, but I think this world is too perfectly made to have just popped up out ofĀ āthe big bang theoryā. (its a THEORY, not fact). Every time I look at you, my faith strengthens. Every time I look at you, I realize that humans are too perfect and beautiful to have just popped up out of nothing. Have you ever looked at yourself? The way your thick, black hair flows down your back almost high-fiving your butt? The way your salmon-colored, Elvis Presley lips curl to the right every time you smile? The way your laugh can cheer anyone up? Now try to tell me that you just popped up out of nowhere. I KNOW that a higher power spent forever piecing you together & He blessed me with the opportunity to know you.Ā
As you begin your journey as an adult, you need to understand a few things.
1) You donāt need to be superwomen and save the world before your 19th birthday.
- Many people take years and years and years to fully settle into their careers, while others can jump into them in a week. That doesnāt make you less of a person for spending time trying to figure yourself out and where you want to be in life.Ā
2) Donāt work yourself to death.Ā
- Youāre the youngest youāll ever be at this exact moment and while you waste your life away working, theres an entire world out there that has been uncaressed by your eyes. Make sure you take time to appreciate the environment. Travel. Travel a lot. Learn new languages. Experience different cultures. Donāt spend too much time hanging over a fryer when you could be climbing mountains and fishing. You werenāt put on this Earth to pay bills and die.
Understand that you donāt need to make anyone proud except for YOURSELF. You donāt need to make your parents proud (although its nice). Theyre not going to like every decision you make and thats okay. Do things for YOU, not them. Love who you want to love, not who they think you should love. Pursue the career that you want to, not the ones your parents pre-determined for you before you were born. You make me proud every single day. You make me proud by waking up and facing life even when I know sometimes its hard and you may not want to. You make me proud by surviving high school even at the times that you thought you wouldnāt have. You only have a few months left and itās a breeze. It will fly by.Ā
Youāre going to do great things best friend, and even if I may not be there to see them because of unforeseen circumstances such as this one, know that Iām proud of you.Ā
Happy birthday best friend,
welcome to adulthood.
















