Hang In There, Kid

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I don’t fully know what drove me to draw this. Maybe it was ‘cause I was doing a bit of self-reflection. Maybe it was because of my friends. Or maybe I just wanted to put a positive message out there.

Sometimes, when I have those days that just drag on, and it feels like I’m running endlessly only to be going nowhere, I try to remember when I was younger. There were plenty of times then too that I felt I wasn’t going to make it—figuratively and literally. But despite that, I kept going. Next thing I knew, I was an adult. I’m not at all perfect, but the things I thought I’d never overcome I’ve managed to scrabble my way through. I look back at when I was a child. If I could go back in time to talk to myself, every moment where I felt hopeless, or useless, or that I would be better off dead—I’d pick little me up and dust myself off, and tell ‘em “hang in there, kid”.

Right now I’m changing jobs, I’ve got less than $100 to my name, and wrestling with my doctor to get my prescriptions refilled. And you know what? Life is pretty damn great. If I did it back then, I can do it now. That goes for the rest of you lot, as well. It’s a hard life most of us got, but we gotta keep moving. You made it this far.

Sending lots of love to everyone who sees this.

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