i hate it when i see a situation and i can predict the horrible outcome, but i can't do anything about it.
yesterday i saw my naive self in a stranger. i recognized it. and i wanted so much to tell this person what would happen. i wanted so much to draw her a map of her future. i wanted so much to spare her the trouble and the pain that awaited her.
but i don't know this person.
and she wouldn't have listened to me anyway. she wouldn't have believed me anyway.
i know she wouldn't have.
how do i know this? because i didn't listen to them. i didn't believe them.
some things you just have to experience for yourself.
and in the end, i guess it is better for you to have experienced them. because after the trouble and the pain comes so much strength and unbelievable faith in yourself.

but wow, it must be so hard for parents, watching their kids go through the same things they did...