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Are You Strong Enough to Live within Yourself?
A letter to my granddaughter on her eighteenth birthday
This letter was written to my granddaughter when she was six to be read on her eighteenth birthday. I hope to be there for that big event… but in a world of uncertainty, there are no guarantees of a tomorrow, which prompted this letter.
My life has been a wondrous journey. I have been privileged to work with thousands of young adults trying to find their place and way forward in the world and I have learned much from them.
This wisdom of the years is something I want to share with my granddaughter, but there are no absolutes in life except death and no certainty of another day on earth. I may not be there for her as a person, but my words can carry the love and hope I have for her and her future.
In case I am not there to sit and talk about the big issues of life, I wrote a series of letters to her in the hope my hard acquired lessons of life might ease her journey when she is old enough to understand and perhaps learn from what I have left her.
Living within yourself
Dear Madison,
One of the most difficult things you will find in life to achieve is the ability to live within yourself. Living within yourself…
