Have the resilience to rise again, even after mistakes. Give yourself permission to grow through it.

Please, painful, have the resilience to get back and fight again. I tell you this with all my heart, that you would make mistakes, you will, but that's because you are doing something. Just allow yourself. You see, I've survived different spiritual environments. My pattern has been the same from family to campus to churches to the nation and even to the con— it's been the same pattern. Something I see ahead, I take different routes. People sometimes become too religious to see those things. Don't let anybody make you a good boy or a good girl against your convictions. Because our generation celebrates a type of the past. It gives us a sense of certainty. You may not fit in. That's the truth. You may just observe that you are not fitting in. Do your stuff. I'm a pastor, but there are many things I don't believe in. I deal with life like God doesn't exist. I deal with God like I don't know any other thing. That's the way I see life. So allow yourself— the one who has never failed may look flawless, but maybe because he has never tried, he lacks experience. And just when you fail, fail forward. Please fail forward. Have the resilience to get back and fight again.