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People achieve different levels of success at different ages. Gabby Douglas is nineteen years old and has been to the Olympics. Malala Yousafzai is seventeen and has won the Noble Peace Prize. Harry Styles is twenty one years old and is a part of the most successful boyband since the Beatles. You are probably between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five and you have probably not done any of those things. Guess what... That does not make them more successful in life or a better person than you. 

You can argue with me. I mean, most people want fame or fortune. We want to get rich early, do something great at a young age so we don't have to worry about all of it later. The thing is that you will achieve something. It may not get you an interview on the Today show or an invite to meet the Queen or the President but it will be an accomplishment.

You cannot measure your worth by the successes of the people that are within your age bracket. Everyone excels at different times in different ways and if you lay around, moping about how you'll never be as great as the young people on television then you will never be great at all. Measure your success in how proud you make yourself, how happy you are. At the end of the day, you're never going to have the opportunity to be Gabby Douglas, Malala Yousafzai, or Harry Styles. You just have to be yourself. It's about time we stop comparing ourselves to other people, don't you think?

catch you later,

Karleigh

“Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.” // Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban