Time is ticking...

Time is ticking. Passes us by like a waterfall. It doesn't stop. Everyone I've talked to about it somehow sees it the same way. Although on the one hand it seems as if Corona has always existed, time has passed us all by so quickly in the last year and a half. I was 16 then and now I'm 18. I was allowed to vote, I've come of age in the meantime. From one moment to the next, you're thrown in at the deep end, suddenly you're allowed to decide almost everything yourself. Some people would say that I am a grown-up, young lady. But I wouldn't necessarily say that.

I don't think I'm an adult yet, not by a long shot. There is still a long way to go until then. You don't have to be able to do everything at 18. At 18, you're just starting to learn a lot of things that you weren't allowed to before. I also have to say that I still look up to my elders. Just like before.

When I was thirteen, I looked up to eighteen-year-olds. I admired them and thought at eighteen you had everything under control. You can handle anything and you look grown up, especially on the outside. I can reassure you, it's nothing like what I thought back then. Sometimes I still look twelve when I don't feel like styling myself. I still don't really have my life under control and I still have the same problems as I did back then - only differently.

Sure, I approach the challenges differently because I was able to take a lot with me over the years, but the basic structure is still there. But this is exactly the process of growing older, of becoming an adult - that you grow from the challenges and become stronger in order to approach things differently in the future.

Nevertheless, you are still allowed to have setbacks, to simply let yourself go. That is one of the most important, if not the most important point. Don't focus on what was and don't focus on what is coming, but let yourself fall right here and now, no matter what you are doing. Fall in order to be able to get up again afterwards.

Because you have mastered that all by yourself. Be proud of yourself and get to know yourself and your worth in order to notice exactly these small feelings of success. I believe in you. Many others do too.

Now only you are missing.

October, 2021

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