Life will always throw things at you that you may or may not be ready to handle. Things may get bad. I love my life, I have had so many ups and downs and I love that. It helps shape me, build me into who I'm meant to be. I will never stop learning from life and I don't think I ever want to. I want to laugh and cry and laugh through crying. I want to scream and sigh and breathe and explore and be bored and catch colds and be healthy and live. That's the beauty of life, the going through the motions.

The thing we need to understand about this world is that things won't always work out how we want and we have to take that as a good thing. A learning opportunity, a growing opportunity. We will be let down time and again, and we will cry or be angry but something miraculous happens when we come out even stronger than before.

For example, I'm an actor. Do I think I'll get every role I audition for? Absolutely not, because that's unrealistic. There are more no's then there are yes's sometimes, but what do you think that does for me? I get stronger in my field because I practice harder, and I work my ass off harder at the next audition. I hone in, I will never master my craft because I will always be learning new things about it, and about myself, but I will always continue to get better. Whether there is a yes or a no, because when one door closes another opens.

Listen, it's hard. It's hard when you put so much of yourself into something only to be let down. This can be anything, school or work or competitions. What I take away from it, and of course I'm still learning to deal with things like this, but what I take away is just to let myself feel it and then get up the next day and be stronger and better. Stay positive, even if the world around you is giving you every reason to be negative. Let yourself find the moments of happiness and live in them.

We are humans and we are sad, depressed, anxiety ridden, angry, happy, scared, emotional and sensitive and real and we absolutely HAVE to let ourselves go through the motions. Live through the hurt and come out stronger. No one can tell you how to feel or how to ride the waves, but I can promise you that you will make it through. And if anything, I believe in you.