The Last Letter

by Rebecca Yarros

You can’t over-drown a person. Once they’re underwater it doesn’t matter how much is above them if they can’t swim upward.

In my experience, there are very few people worth making the effort for. I try to give everything I have to those closest to me, and keep that circle small. I’d rather be great for a few people than be mediocre for a bunch.

But I can tell you sometimes the losses are just as important as the wins. The wins feel really good and let us celebrate what we did right. But the losses, they teach us more. They teach us to see where we can improve, and yeah, they feel pretty darn bad, and that’s okay. As you get bigger, you’ll see that it’s not how you handle the wins that make you a good man, it’s how you handle the losses.”

We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.

“You don’t get to be mad at the person who got hurt, or judge them for it, because only that person can tell you how deep the cut is, got it?