don’t give up.

Please, keep trying again and again and again and again forever.

Please, understand you’ll make mistakes, you’re not the mistake.

Please, be patient.

Please, give it your all.

Please, don’t be disappointed.

Please, keep hoping, keep believing, keep loving, because these will never disappoint.

Please, be painfully honest, with yourself, with God, and with fellow mortal stragglers.

Please, run recklessly with reason, and sit still in awe-struck abandon of this wondrous existence.

Please, be open.

Please, trust again.

Please, don’t be stubborn.

Please, don’t be arrogant.

Please, advocate for others.

Please, remember.

Please, pray.