A Little Wiser

 

                                    

With every year of your life, you will realize the following. You will know more people, but less people will know you. More people may exist in your life. Many people many know of you, but very few will really know you. Most people exist in your life to know what you're up to, rather than really care for you. You will be the friend of more people, but you will have fewer friends. But your friends will be like mirrors of your soul because , by speaking to them, you are speaking to yourself. You will speak less and listen more. Way more . 

You will keep more secrets than the secrets you give. You will be more tolerant but less tolerated. You may own more things, but less things will own you. You will be the master of your emotions, and only you will be able to expose them. The older you get , the more of your childhood innocence you'll appreciate and retrieve, because children think of the result before they think of the consequences. Before they jump, they think of where they'll land and not of the wounds the fall will cause.

You will realize that you are unique in your thoughts because, most times, you will feel misunderstood. 

Because you refused to allow the world to mold you, you will always struggle to stay true to yourself in a world of people 

striving to meet the ideals that society has created. A one- size-fits-all that you refused to live up to.