You need to hear this. Whether you know it or not, we all need to be told that we're going to be okay. Nothing ever stays bad forever. Something about the adult world thinking we are adults too, and just sending us out in the world to fend for ourselves, is the biggest joke. Yeah we get it all figured out eventually, but we're still so young and anxious and feel this immense pressure to keep it together. But without the Instagram filter, it's clear we don't have it all together. You're going to crack, you're going to break down, you're going to feel lost. Frankly, if you haven't felt like that yet, buckle up because it's going to hit you soon enough. But when you're feeling like this, you cannot believe that it's over, because it is far, far from it.

Here's some reminders that it's going to be okay.

• You deserve good things. Happiness, love, laughter, all of it. You deserve to be in a good place, and you're going to get there.
• Someone out there wants the world for you.
• Call your mom. Or your uncle, second cousin twice removed, your best friend from 5th grade, etc. Call someone who's going to tell you to calm down.
• Lay down on the floor and don't think about anything. I swear this works. (There's scientific proof, aka me sitting on my floor and feeling better.)
• Someone in this universe is counting on you. Even if it's your dog who needs to be let out at 2 p.m. Someone needs you.

So what? It didn't turn out the way you planned. You didn't get that perfect GPA this semester, people weren't there that should've been, and you're stuck in an emotional limbo between not necessarily being sad, but you're not happy either. It's going to get better because it always does, one way or another. Trying to predict when you're not going to feel like this is almost worse than feeling like this. You can't set an itinerary for your feelings, it doesn't work that way. Trust the system. Life works itself out, and you will discover that you came out on the other side a better, stronger person. It's easy to tell yourself that, and difficult to believe it, but it happens.

And after all this, if you still feel like you have nothing or no one, or that you're going to feel like this forever... well I'm reaching out, giving you an Internet hug, and telling you one last time; it's going to be okay.