"10 Things I Will Tell My Daughter" | a beautiful tumblr post

Hello lovely reader! Today's post is a bit different from something I would normally do because most of the content was not written by me, so let me explain. I saw this post on tumblr a couple of weeks ago and thought that it was absolutely beautiful and profound. The title of it was "10 Things I Will Tell My Daughter" Now, whether you are a daughter or a mother, a young girl or an older lady, I think these 10 things are so relatable and almost comforting. I personally do not have kids nor will I anytime soon, but I still do imagine what it will be like if am blessed to become a mother one day. I wonder how different the world will be for them compared to how it is now and such. And as a young lady these thoughts are something to remind myself of for sure. I will leave the link to her tumblr below so be sure to check out the source of these lovely thoughts.

10 things I will tell my daughter. 

1. Do not date a boy who does not care what your favourite song is. The boy who does not care what melodies ignite your heart strings with love and wonder while staring at passing street lights on the last train home, will not care if it’s 2 a.m. and your heart is breaking.

2. Do not let anyone fold you up like last winters tattered scarf and put you away with the others in a neatly labeled box. Even when there’s thunder and the sky is crying, you are your mum’s favourite summer dress. You are to wear yourself like you believe it.

3. We are all stories. Write yours how you want. Make today’s chapter about purposely taking the wrong bus and discovering a tiny blue tea shop, or folding origami paper hearts over and over on your window sill. Just make sure it’s something you’d enjoy reading.

4. I will always try to save you.

5. Someday you will be 19 and lost and heartbroken and you will think about a place you’ve seen on TV or heard or read about in a book or seen a picture of. You will feel your heart drop into your stomach. Go there. For a day, a month, forever, but it’s important that you go.

6. The world is so beautiful. Do not let the slumped over homeless man outside the convenience store or the stories of guns and bombs on the television let you believe otherwise. We are all so lost. All of us. We all show it in different ways. I write bad poems. Others start wars. There is no inherent evil, only good people searching too hard.

7. I love everything about you.

8. Money turns people into liars and emotional ghosts. School grades are an inaccurate representation of you. Measure your life’s worth in how many times you’ve nearly lost your life to laughter, how many books you’ve closed with happy tears in your eyes, people whose lives you’ve brought joy to, marshmallows eaten, or countries visited.

9. Don’t ever let anyone tell you to stop crying. Cry if you want to. It’s okay. You’re allowed.

10. My best friend once told me that the most important decision he had ever made was to love everyone and everything. He’s the only person I’ve ever known to have a viewable aura of light around him. Don’t forget to love this world, to love people. Be light. You are already mine.

Source: aint nothing but a thunder storm.

This is why I love the internet. Yes online shopping is great and youtube is entertaining, but the fact that their are so many people out there who are willing to share their inspirational thoughts with the entire world really makes me happy! Xx