Please, if you learn nothing else, learn to wait.
Trust yourself but be patient.
Waiting is hard and it's boring and often it is incredibly lonely.
Do it anyway.
While you're waiting, take a look around. See those girls sneaking off into the shadows? They're lining up for scars that won't heal. Those girls running headfirst into the first boys to blink at them? They're speeding down a highway where every lane should be the slow lane.
So, keep waiting, my loves. Even when it feels you're being left behind. Especially when it seems you'll never get off the curb.
Because you will. I promise.
Patience will lead you to everything.
Waiting will mean you'll be standing in just the right place after the crowd clears. And you'll be the one with the clearest view of...well...of whatever you've been longing for.
Taking deep breaths and counting to ten (or ten thousand) will give you the clearest mind to fill with the things that matter - even if all that matters is knowing those jeans are not flattering despite what the ad said.
And, my sweet girls, patience is the only thing that will teach you that the first to ask is often the first to run.
Don't cling to the first hand when holding is plenty. Don't jump headlong when wading in toes first is deep enough. And, in the name of all that is holy, don't call it love when you don't even know his middle name.
Patience may be boring, but it's the only way to be sure.
And the things to be most sure about will always wait for you.
