Today was so beautiful with my son Diego and my spouse,
driving up into the mountains toward Mount Baker and then taking a really beautiful hike up Winchester Mountain. I found myself thinking about me at 14 and wanting to say to her:
Just hang in there; everything feels so terrible right now you want to die. Actually, you don't want to die; you just don't want to suffer so much anymore. But ... there's a good chance that happiness is ahead of you. So don't. Just wait.
And then I thought that maybe my 53-year-old self might have actually spoken to 14-year-old me. And that against all odds, I hung in there.
And, so glad she did. So glad I did.
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