In your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong person, underreact, overreact, hurt the people who didn't deserve it, overthink, not think at all, self-sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others.

Deny any wrongdoing.

Not take the steps to make it right.

Feel very guilty.

Let the guilt eat at you.

Hit rock bottom.

Finally address the pain you caused.

Try to do better next time.

Rinse.

Repeat.

I know I sound like a consummate optimist, but I'm really not.

I lose perspective all the time.

Sometimes, everything just feels completely pointless.

I know the pressure of living your life through the lens of perfectionism.

Life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once.

Part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release.

What I mean by that is knowing what things to keep and what things to release.

Decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go.

How will you know what the right choice is in these crucial moments?

You won't.

How do I give advice to this many people about their life choices?

I won't.

The scary news is, you're on your own now.

But the cool news is, you're on your own now.

We are led by our gut instincts, our intuition, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams.

The hard things will happen to us.

We will recover.

We will learn from it.

We will grow more resilient because of it.

And as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, and breathe out.

We're doing this together.

So let's just keep dancing like we're the class of 22.

Thank you.