A letter from Dec 18, 2023

hey, Ferlyn! happy birthday! as for your 14 year old self, she wants to spend her birthday with Gillian at life 4 cuts. i do hope that you are friends with people who doesn't make you wonder if they are really your friends. you're already.... sixteen! i hope you find a way to go out and spend time by yourself. when it feels like the whole world misunderstood you, i hope you try to understand yourself. please, forgive your self for the mistakes you've done. remember that you didn't know the things you know now. i hope that you are no longer insecure about the way you look. i hope you don't go through the phase of begging God to take your life. it will get better. life gets better. i'm still undecided about the career i want, but for sure i'm a stem student now. i hope you are spending your birthday the way you want to spend it. again, happy birthday!