Hailey Chamberlain

I like my rough edges. Smooth women are too easy to climb.

I don’t like easy.

I want a man willing to hike mountains for me, or I don’t want a man at all.

They will try to label you one thing.

As if people can be categorized so easily.

They fail to see their systems flaw.

You are not one thing.

You are many things.

So full of personality and potential.

Bravery and intelligence.

Capability and love.

Take the labels they have so generously given you and shove them down the garbage chute.

Show them.

Show them they were wrong.

Your dreams are scattered upon the stars. People will tell you to reach for them but won’t help you get there.

You will feel alone.

You will want to quit.

But I am telling you now never to give up on them.

Nothing is more tragic than a dream wasted away and nothing more beautiful than achieving it.

Eventually you will hit a crossroads and you will have four choices with no sense of direction.

This may be the biggest decision of your life.

Please, whatever you do, do not turn around and walk back the way you came.

You didn’t come this far only to give up when your path is no longer clear.

You do not need a man to make you feel whole. You should feel that on your own.

And you need to understand that you must first love yourself before allowing another person to do so.