“Focus on yourself. Sometimes, we put too much energy into other people, and we forget that we have to put just as much energy into ourselves instead of doing it for other people. Make sure you’re checking in with yourself and making sure you’re okay too. [Over this past summer] a few tragic things happen to people that I care about and that made me [focus] on other people and trying to make sure that everyone around me felt fine. But I didn’t really ever think about how I felt. [I didn’t] ever take the time to make sure that I was okay.” – Lila Kayser, 9