"Okay, listen carefully. You will fail here. All of you."

I just saw this on TV, and I thought it was really worth sharing:

College is not the culmination of your high school career. It is the beginning of your adult life. Only it's a slow sweet beginning that feels nothing like life and all of its attending obligations will eventually bring. So fail here. Be bad at things. Be embarrassed. Be afraid. Be vulnerable. Go out on a limb, or two, or twelve and you'll fall and it'll hurt, but the harder you fall the higher you'll rise. The louder you fail, the clearer your future becomes. Failure is a gift, welcome it. (read more...)

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There are people who spend their whole lives wondering how they became the people they became. How certain chances passed them by. Why they didn't take the road less travelled. Those people are not you. You have the front row seats to your own transformation and in transforming yourself you might even transform the world. And it will be electric. I promise you it'll be terrifying, but embrace that. Embrace the new person you're becoming.

This is your moment. I promise you it is now. Now, not two minutes from now, not tomorrow, but really now. Own that, know that, deep in your bones knowing and go to sleep every night knowing that and wake up every morning remembering that and then keep going. Keep going.

Source: Grace McCallister (Christine Lahti), Episode 2: Better Days, Season 1, Jack & Bobby.

Picture source: 1x02 "Better Days", The Jack & Bobby Chronology.