The choices and decisions you make, no matter how small or big, ultimately decide where in life you'll land on. Like a game of snakes and ladders, we're all trying to reach the end so that we can look back on our journey and see all ladders that we've climbed and the many, many, many snakes that we've landed on to bring us down, down, down, again.

It's one thing to act irrationally in deperation. It's another to be young, desperate and irrational.

I've come to realise that youth should be equated with courage. Go on, live dangerously. It's okay, when you're young to rebel, make mistakes and break rules. No one will give you a serious penalty for it. After all, they'd probably blame it on the fact that you were young and knew no better. So I say, go all out. Do not be afraid of consequences, you learn vastly from them and truth be told, they are life moulding experiences.

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This is for my sister, who was once upon a time, estranged from me. But I think she's found me and she's growing up to see what this cruel life can do and the oddly, beautiful things it has to offer. She's my only sister, and one that my mother has constantly had to remind me that I would be alone without. I hope for her to be able to look for the beauty in life, to have deeper vision for what all this is about. I hope that everyday brings to her something worth appreaciating. I hope for her a strong heart with passion running through every vein. And I hope for her courage, to not always follow the rules, to have a voice and to not be afraid to take chances.

I think, now, more than ever we are closer to each other. Thanks for finding me, brat.