Dear Parents

Dear parents, if you keep guarding us from the wrong how will we learn the

right? If you keep us from the things that might make us sad or offended

how will we learn how to fight? You see it's not how we make mistakes,

it's about how we correct them that define us. The reality is people mess up.

Don't let one mistake ruin a beautiful thing. If you don't let us off our leashes

how are we supposed to know that it is okay to mess up... right now when

we mess up we feel like failures because of how you respond to it and how

you raised us.

The past is where you made your mistake and learned your lessons... the

future is where you apply the lesson... my parents never taught me this. I

taught myself. The question is, how are we supposed to apply the lesson if

you never let us do things that might lead to those same mistakes again....

it's a chance for redemption whether you see it that way or not. Success

does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same

one a second time.

I remember someone once told me to not carry my mistakes around with

me but to place them underneath my feet and use them as stepping stones.

To the kids reading this: don't let your past dictate who you are, let it be a

lesson that strengthens who you become. Parents take no offense to this

but people say that our best teachers are our parents... well, that's a lie.

Our best teacher is our last mistake. Don't try to come up here and try to

deny the things I have said, cause you need to be more accepting of who

your kids are and less concerned about what society will think of them.

If you teach them to grow up in such a way that society will accept them

then I guess you're teaching them that they need to be perfect in which

case they would end up becoming fake because nobody's perfect and no

ever will be. The world is messed up right now because the ones before

were raised to fit in the puzzle.

We need to be the generation that takes the responsibility to make the

world right again. I am tired of living in a fake world with fake people in

which... people who speak the truth get out-casted or get locked up

because of their disruptions to society because they stand for what is right.

I don't know about you but I wanna be on the side that takes the fight and

chooses the right. What about you?