hope

In 1885, the painter Vincent van Gogh remarked to his brother Theo in a letter regarding his art, “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if it looks like grass at first.”

Even if it’s not clear to everyone else what you’re doing or how you’re going to be successful, know that you own your value—it is not assigned by anyone else. You know you are wheat even if all that’s visible right now is a blade of grass.