Stay awake, long enough to capture the reality in front of you, but not so long that you forget to dream of new realities.

Stay who you are.

Because your voice and your vision and your talents,

they're unparalleled.

But don't stay the same.

Because to evolve is to breathe life into that authenticity. Stay away from those misaligned ventures, the broken places, the empty relationships,

they're not you.

But stay close to those things that are.

Stay in when it's time to invest in yourself.

To chip away at our default ignorance, to turn that curious

soul into a knowledgeable actor. But know that all that other stuff, the fun, the escapes,

the distractions, they stay right where they are waiting should you need them.

Stay the course.

Not just when it's easy, but when it's difficult.

When things for a moment in time feel impossible,

lose their glamour, feel like a burden too costly for you to pay.

Because hanging in there through the storm,

it changes the way we look at life.

Like being able to see the stars for the very first time

and no storm stays forever.

Stay humble.

Because knowing what you don't know is the first step in becoming who you might be.

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