#DearMe / Advice to My Younger Self

Dear Teenage Dominique:

Me in 2006

You are probably sitting in your room thinking that life sucks. You work very hard to keep good grades in school. You spend long hours at a job that you somewhat like but you go anyway because you know that your family could use the extra money. You are internally dealing with a secret that you have been living with for years and don't know how to deal with it. You are probably wondering what your future is going to be like and will happiness ever find you.

Well, I have good news for you. Everything will turn out just fine. You will graduate high school and start college in the same year. You will make a ton of friends, some even lifelong, in college and will get to experience a normal young adult life. You will develop a strong sense of self worth, love and appreciation. You will make major decisions that will effect your life in the long run. You will travel the world, learn different cultures and languages. Everything you desire to happen in your life will happen and beyond what you could imagine.

So while you are worrying just know that with your faith and what God has in store for you everything will be possible. Just continue to believe in yourself and be sure to never stop just because someone else said that you couldn't do it.

Love always,

Future Dominique
xoxo