into it

it is so easy for you
child
you are so excited
and ready
and scared by what comes next
it is so easy for you.

you have been protected
and so you think
you always will be
and perhaps
you are one of the few
who will be
or who won't be
but will never need saving.
I hope you are
and I hope you aren't
because I don't want you to be boring.
I don't want you to feel half-done.

Promise me this.
Promise me
that the decisions you make
you never make out of fear,
that the life you create for yourself
is built on the things that actually matter.
I don't expect you to know what those things are yet
but they aren't necessarily what you've been told they are
except when they are
and it is up to you to know the difference.

because it is easy for you
child
it is easy
and it doesn't have to be
and you are lucky.

because it may not always be easy
child
it may be more difficult than it has to be
and you will still be lucky.

know that.

trust that.

and jump.