#25 -- Clarity

Yes, there will be times of confusion. And it would be unfair for me not to warn you that your heart will be broken on occasion, despite your best efforts in love and friendship.

But just getting to know you over the past two weeks, I see that you are intelligent, and self-assured. Even at only 6 pounds, you insist on holding your head up, and grasping your pacifier with two hands so no one takes it from you. You are a (little) woman who knows what she wants and doesn't mind working a little bit to get it. It's like you are the only one who doesn't know that you are small (or the rest of us are wrong, and you are as big as you think)...

Because of this observation, I know that you are blessed with mental clarity. That even when the winds of change make you feel unstable, and question marks dot your path, you will have peace of mind and confidence in yourself.

On nights when your homework seems like it will take more than the hours in the night -- you will think of a creative way to finish and manage a little bit of sleep. When your bills pile high on your apartment counter, you will rearrange some of your finances and somehow squeek by.

The stresses of life will weigh you down from time to time, but you already have the means to envision your own serenity built inside of you. You really are bigger than your body gives you credit for....