Life is all about making mistakes, taking chances, and learning lessons. Making mistakes is easy. All one must do in order to take a chance is to simply jump in to the situation, but learning lessons takes time. Some lessons can be easily learned; the lesson to not touch something hot is learned immediately when one burns themselves. Other lessons take longer to fully comprehend. Self love is something that I have struggled to achieve for years. I still haven't reached the epitome of self love yet, but I am on the way. Learning to fully love oneself despite one's flaws and other's opinions is truly one of the hardest lessons to learn. Middle school is pretty much universally viewed as '"the awkward years". As a child, my insecurities and
