You’re 14. You’re not only still learning about
yourself, you’re still forming. This is a time for
phases, and that’s not a bad thing. Revel in phases
like you’ve never been old enough to before and never
be young enough to do again.
Try phases. Wear ugly nail polish. Dip-dye your hair. Cut
it all off. Cry about that. Wear hats and wigs or not.
Pierce your belly button with a sewing needle and ice and
have it get infected and ooze pus on your favourite shirt
and learn why you’ll get all your other piercings
done at a shop. Weep yourself sick over things you’ll
think are stupid in six months, six days or six
hours… or things that will scar your heart until
you’re eighty. Know that you’ll survive both.
Eat an entire cheesecake because your metabolism is young.
Try wine coolers and learn that they’re disgusting
and a sip of Shiraz you’ll need a job to afford and
learn that it can be disgusting too. Be a poet this week
and don’t shower and wander around barefoot at night
thinking deep thoughts until you step in dog cr/p, then be
a photojournalist, then an activist, then a vegan, then a
misanthropic nihilist. Get your heart broken. Survive it.
Be fifteen versions of yourself in sixteen weeks and try on
selves like blue jeans until you find the one that fits for
now and makes you feel amazing and know that it’s ok
if it doesn’t fit later because you’re still
growing and there are always more on the shelves and in
weird little thrift stores and you can even sew your own.
Kiss boys, kiss girls, kiss people who are neither or both,
kiss puppies and babies and photos of celebrities and old
books. Kiss being 14 – deeply, wetly, messily –
before you have to kiss it good bye and worry about what
labels stick.
-ok saw this on tumblr
& thought it was inspirational enough to post on here -
for the people that don't have tumblr
-NMF