My dear, Truth is, none of us actually knows what we’re doing. We’re all just moving forward bit by bit hoping we don’t trip on our own shoelaces. We’re all just going from point A to point B hoping it all means something. We’re all just a bunch of people who’ve learnt how to delude themselves into thinking they are grandeur than all the world. Let’s face it, we’re all just a bunch of fucking...

My dear, Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. I write for kids. I write for kids because they haven’t given up on themselves. I write for kids because they’re troublemakers, openly. I write for kids because they don’t hesitate to give you hugs when they see you down. I write for kids because they do what they like, and the thought of whether or not someone else is judging them doesn’t even cross...

My dear, Be the kind of woman that people make way for. Be the kind of woman that takes responsibility into her own hands, and does something with it. Be the kind of woman whose accomplishments makes people stutter when they talk to her. Be the kind of woman who doesn’t let the fact that she doesn’t have it all figured out hold her back. Falsely yours, A....

My dear, People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. The truth is, you knew exactly what you had; you just thought you’d never lose it. The truth is that the best things in life are the things we notice least. We never notice the person who’s done a good job quietly for years, but we notice the one day they don’t. We don’t notice the person quietly carrying the burdens of the world on...

My dear, Don’t even think about stooping low. Don’t bring a change of clothing. Don’t pull up your sleeves in anticipation of the fight. Don’t train months in advance on how to manoeuvre in mud. And please don’t try to educate yourself on the psychology of pigs to maybe get a grasp of how they operate. Don’t do it. It’s a horrible waste of your time and attention. Just walk away from the pig.....

My dear, Losers wait for the moment when everything’s right in order to start. Winners wait for no such moment (who know’s when it’ll appear), winners start now. Losers wait for inspiration before putting in work. Winners work first, if inspiration comes it’ll find them working, not waiting. Losers see all the obstacle and give up, saying things are against them now. Winners see all the obstacles and trudge on,...

My dear, If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. “We do, we do,” we say. “We’ve learned all we need to from history and those primitive versions of us,” we say. “We’re smarter and thus our actions are different and better,” we say. “We’re more learnt that those people of the past, how could we possibly make the same...

My dear, Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. Normal’s horrible if you really think about it. But most of us keep to it because, well, because it’s normal. Being abnormal might as well be...

My dear, I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Mainly because that term ‘everybody’ includes everyone. I don’t think it’s wrong to please the people who you actually like. In fact, the opposite. I think doing things that please the people you like in turn pleases you, and over time I think it actually attracts to you the people you like to be around. I do think...

My dear, If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. Don’t go for that try, try again stuff. Get something now. Usually what the losers gets is experience and an opportunity to grow, and this more than makes up for the loss. But see if you can get something more. See if you can get a cherry-on-top. Don’t go for that try, try again stuff. Don’t listen to the people who say you have to go through a...