I would first like to say that I hope I do not meet you for a long time. I mean this in the most sincere way possible. I want to provide for you. I don’t want you to struggle in your beginning life all because I made a decision I wasn’t ready for. I promise that I will only have you once I am ready for all the responsibilities that come along with you.

I promise to provide for you in any way I possibly can. I want to see you succeed in life and I know I am a big part for that to happen. You need help in school? Come to me. I will spend all night with you at the dinner table trying to solve that one math problem until you understand it. I’ll go out late at night when you procrastinated your science project to buy your markers and glue.

I promise to be there after a rough day. I’ll give you the space you need to calm yourself but when you want to talk, you can always come find me. I know what it’s like to be a teenager and I know what it feels like to have everyone against you but I promise you things will get better. You live this life to learn and experience so many different things and that is exactly what you will do.

You’ll have people come in and out of your life, some harder to lose. But you have to keep in mind your ultimate goal then you have to question if that individual was helping you succeed that goal. I can tell you that I have a couple life long friends and they have not once brought me down. I just hope that you will differentiate those types of people and keep them around.

Even though I hope you become a softball star one day (only if you are a girl might I add), I will be open for you to join groups and do the sports that you want. I promise that I will go to all of your after school activities, cheering you on. I want you to learn from your mistakes. It’s important that you are independent but also have individuals in your life that will be there to help you.

I promise all of these and so much more that I can’t fit into an article but I just hope that you can promise me a few things too.

I want you to promise me that you will do whatever makes you happy and whatever will help you prosper in life. Watching ones you care about so much fail is a big fear of mine. Therefore, try your hardest in whatever you do. I will push you along the way, probably so much that it will annoy the crap out of you cause let’s be honest, that’s what parents do. But the outcome of your life all depends on how hard you push yourself.

Once again, I hope I do not meet you for a while not because I don’t want you but because I am only a senior in high school. I have my own life to live still. I have my own dreams to chase: my own goals to accomplish. But one day in the future, I hope to be your role model, the person you want to make proud even though you have nothing to prove to me.

But until then,

With great love.

Reagan Clay