Pick yourself up, every time you fall.

You’re going to be alone in this world. Whether at 9 or at 90, people are going to leave and they will never realize they took a part of you with them. You might just keep wondering what went wrong and what was your fault. You’ll feel like you’re left in the middle of an ocean, left to drown. But you won’t, because after crying for days and months, you’ll eventually make peace with the fact that it was not your fault. It never was.

You’ll learn not to break down every now and then.

You’ll learn how to be on your own.

You’ll stop putting yourself down when things don’t work out.

You’ll learn how to smile again.

You’ll learn how to be there, for yourself.

And that my friend, will bring you the ultimate happiness.

But only when you’ll learn to be on your own, they’ll come back, with all the parts of you they had taken along, just to make you feel more complete than you were ever before. They’ll come back to you, just to break you down all over again.

But this time, you’ll be wiser.

You’d have tasted happiness.

So, you wouldn’t go back to become the person you had left behind.

This time, you wouldn’t let them fool you for their happiness.

And eventually,

You’ll forget that you were broken once.

You’ll forget you had any weakness.

You’ll forget that there was something holding you back.

And you’ll learn to pick yourself up,

Every time you fall.