LETTER TO MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF

Hey. I'm writing to you from the future which is only 2 years away, but you know, some crazy things have happened in these years. Now you are in a senior year of high school. So first, don't worry too much about your exams in high school, they aren't as difficult as they seem to be, you will really get these grades which you've written on a little paper the day you started your senior year.You will also fall in love this year and because of that it won't be as difficult to leave high school behind as you've expected. Your prom will be beautiful, the day will be sunny and you will dance until the sun comes up and this will be the most beautiful memory from your 12 years of high school and this will be the most beautiful goodbye you could have dreamed of.
The Summer after it will be a really fantastic one and there will be moments where you will have to pinch yourself so that you believe this is really your life. Treasure these moments, you will need them in the future as a proof that good things happen in life. You will finally see Paris after waiting for more than a decade to do so and you will love it, this will be the greatest trip and you will experience many amazing memories with your best friend. Hint - Montmartre, wine, sunset and the longest conversations.
You will get into University and there will be some happy times celebrating the thought about starting a new chapter of your life. You will start University and you will quickly understand that you've made a really bad choice. Throughout the whole freshman year you will cry at night many many times, you will be really miserable there, you will be trying to find your place and won't succeed, you will be stuck in life.
At the time when the next Summer will come, remember that whatever happens, you can't give up. You will quit university and won't really know where exactly your life will go after it, the love will fade away and you will be heartbroken for a while, (remember, you still can't give up), there will be many visits to the doctors offices and many days spent in pain but you will eventually be okay. There will be times when you will be really lonely, when Summer nights won‘t seem that enjoyable because this will be the time of the day when everyone is sleeping and you are wide awake with many thoughts in your head. You will have to build your life back up again after you‘ve watched it fall apart right in front of your eyes, you will have to fall back in love with yourself. Don‘t worry, eventually you will, it will all be easier.
 You will see who your true friends are and you will thank them every day for helping you, you will see how important your family is to you, and after all you will have a great Summer.
You will get into university again and this time you will really start your life anew. There will be some wonderful moments in that year and you will see that you have finally found your place in life. You will have an amazing and incredibly precious cat which will show you how much love is inside of you and she will make you happier every single day.
Some people will leave your life, some will come back after a couple of years, some won't be back ever again, someone is smiling at you from Heaven. You will have many breakdowns, but you will finally find your inner strength which is bigger than you think, you will see how much you will grow in these years and you will become much wiser. After all of it, you will become so much happier and you will finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and you will start to cherish your life much more and you will see that dreams do actually come true. Whatever happens, don't give up because bad times don't last forever, there is always a silver lining, just learn to notice it.