You have to pursue the things that fuel your joy. You need to surround yourself with people who bring you home to yourself, with people who respect you and hug you in ways that make you feel worthy and accepted and loved. You have to do the work to heal yourself even if it hurts so that you don’t continue to approach your life within the boundaries of what is heavy within you. You have to put yourself out there and you can’t rob yourself of experience or happiness or inspiration because you’re afraid of how you’ll be seen. You should have no regrets with the way you got out of here. You have to believe that your ideas and your hopes and yourself deserve to take up space. You have to believe that you have a purpose because our existence is limited and it is as difficult as it is to understand as hard as it is to connect from time to time reminding yourself that in the most humane way we all live with loans time.