One: Find Your Voice
Know that not all languages contain words. Your voice could be music. It could be dance. It will be what expresses you most sincerely. Your voice is an art. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
Two: Remember that you are an artist
Regardless of how constantly the world will try to drive it out of you or how a "real job/hobby" will bury that part of you that communicates your feelings when language fails you. You are an artist. Whether it is with food or building robots. You will know your medium the instant you realize how in love you are with what it brings out of you.
Three: Apologize
You will not always be right. You will not always be wrong. You will hopefully always be learning. Atonement is a sacrifice of pride. Explanation of why you did what you did or said what you said will not vindicate you. If the cost to heal someone is only your pride then apologize and be grateful that you've received peace at such a bargain.
Four: Forgive
Realize that people are still learning. If forgiveness is not possible then think of everything you've ever wanted to be forgiven for but weren't. Hold that uneasiness in your mind until you feel your desire for complete absolution becoming a wish. Realize you can grant this wish for others. If you are waiting for forgiveness, be prepared to wait. Be prepared to stand in the path of time and wither. Respect that forgiveness is difficult. Not all trespasses are equal and not everyone will heal according to your schedule.
Five: Accept that farting is funny.
Granted it's not always appropriate and sometimes unpleasant. But if you cannot laugh, if you are more offended by a fart than by war, famine, political corruption, deforestation, racism, sexism, classism, the wrongfully imprisoned, the treatment of woman, the foreclosing of home while debts are forgiven, if a fart offends you more than any of that then you are not a person and you cannot be helped.
Six: Know that love is a vulnerability but not a weakness.
Love is the volunteer in you that raises its hand and steps forward without needing to be rewarded. Love is currency that functions in reverse because the only way to wealthy with it is to give more away.
Seven: Don't laugh to fit in
Laughter should be honest. If there is no sincerity in your joy then your happiness will be a forgery that fools only yourself
Eight: Do not fear to be hated.
But be cautious of those inhabited by hate. You will be hated. Regardless of who you are, what you say or what you do. You will be hated for your successes and your failures. For good looks or bad looks. For intelligence or stupidity. Hate is the child of the hater. Nurtured by the belief that has fed you. Often you will have no control for what you are hated for. Know that antipathy becomes the master of its owner. Know that you are going to be hated regardless of who you are and then be fearless enough to be who you want to be. Hate is no more eloquently articulated than in a poetry of the expression ' Not Your Fucking Problem. '
Nine: Try
The tiniest dream that you try to make happen is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.
Ten: be savagely thankful and continuously in awe of the power you possess.
You are alive inside of an endless cosmos with a freedom that shines brightest in the dark.
Choices. Your choices belong to you so intimately that they will never leave you. They, unlike the changing nature of love or the failing of machinery of our bodies, will never abandon you over time. Good or bad they will always stay an antique, that shows the future who you were and what you stood for. So know that what you choose to stand for is what will inform you of what you've chosen to stand against, so stand. Let each foot crashland into what you believe and plant them firmly so they may take root in your convictions, and stand .
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