Dear future child

If I ever had a child,
I would hope they knew the things they will once experience.
Not sugar coat it and pretend like this world will always be blissful and innocent.
I want to tell them about the happiness they will experience,
but also the pain they will once endure.

Dear future child,
I'm not going to lie to you,
you will cry,
you will lose people,
and people will turn their backs on you.
People will be 2-faced, act like your best friend,
then throw you under the bus one day.

You will have your heart broken,
you will be extremely happy and get butterflies over someone.
You will experience depression,
and it will seem like it will never go away,
but it does.

You will experiment drugs at least once,
And people aren't always nice,
people aren't always going to be the people they seem to be.

And one day, you are going to have the same questions I asked myself everyday.
You will ask questions like "Who am I?" "What does it all mean?" "Whats the point of life?"

And the sad thing is that I can't stop any of this from happening to you..

I wish I could..

But I can only be there for you

and pick you up when you fall,
wipe away your tears when you cry,
hold you when you get hurt,
support your decisions,
and prey you make the right ones.

I wish I could protect you from all of life's pain,
future child of mine.

But it's life..
it happens to everyone,
And here is what you are going to hear throughout your entire life,
what you will get tired of hearing as you get older.
Life has ups and downs,
but it gets better.
You need bad things in life to make you stronger.
I know you won't believe it at first,

I didn't either.
But it does.
And you are going to make mistakes,
but I will hope and prey that you learn from them.

So, future child,
this is life.
Enjoy it.
Love it.
Live it.

From: Your future, Mother.
A 16 year old.