I am apologizing for my grammar in advance, this is candid and from the heart. I hope your 2018 is filled with everything you want and more.
- don’t be afraid that you’re “too much” or that you’re giving someone too much of your attention. Life is way too short to hold back. If you love someone, show it.
- following lesson #1, a great friend of mine once tweeted: “You will be too much for some people. Those people aren’t your people.” And, not to be dramatic, that has stuck with me ever since I first read it.
- KEEP YOUR EXPECTATIONS SLIM TO NONE. This sounds glass half empty but I swear its glass all the way full. Disappointment becomes rare.
- eat like you love yourself. don’t go days without eating, your body is beautiful, deserves to be loved, and really, is the one that will always be there for you in the end.
- speak your mind, always. too often we fear being heard, say it loud and say it proud, even if you’re speaking alone.
- there are some opinions that you will not understand, but it is important that you still respect them. (no matter how dumb they seem)
- it is okay if the most important thing you did today was get yourself out of bed. it isn’t always easy, so good job, I’m proud of you.
- tell your family members that you love them. (i struggle with this a lot because I’m not very good at expressing how i feel) don’t rely on the fact that they know you love them, it always feels good to be able to hear it too.
- stop sitting around wondering if you’re good enough for some people and start wondering if they’re good enough for you.
- don’t beg for people’s love.
- “someone who values you would never put themselves into a position to lose you.”
- your feelings are valid, and how you feel is how you feel and that is okay.
- don’t make yourself small just so other people can feel big.
- sing all of the time, sing with friends, sing in the car, sing alone, just sing. it heals the heart.
- fight for what is right. even if you’re standing alone, even if you’re afraid that it will bring your life to the ground, you fight.
- watch good TV shows, appreciate representation when it applies to you, relate to characters, fall in love with stories and moments and relationships.
- drink enough water. again, you are important and your body deserves the very best.
- ask for help!! this goes for anything as small as changing a lightbulb to anything as big as your mental health. nobody can do everything on their own.
- acknowledge your privilege.
- it is perfectly okay to be a girl who likes girls or to be a boy who likes boys.
- take lots of pictures of the people you love. get them while they’re laughing or eating a bagel. the smallest moments end up being the biggest in the end.
- stop waiting for friday, stop waiting for after school, stop waiting for summer vacation. your life is right now, value every moment.
- don’t believe everything that you hear. people can say literally anything. I could say that I’m Michelle Obama, that doesn’t make it true.
- some people will surprise you. This can be both good and bad. Im saying that some people end up being exactly who they swore they weren’t and some people are worth sticking around to get to know.
- life is too short not to have cool hair, dye it, cut it, it grows back.
- pick up everything in your room before you vacuum it. then the little things you desperately try to get the vacuum to go around won’t get sucked up into the filter and your mom won’t get pissed at you.
- social media is a gift, be careful with it.
- education is a privilege so don’t skip class and don’t dread getting up in the morning. there are people who are fighting and dying for the right to go to school right now.
- don’t refer to the united states as ‘America.’ you’ll sound like an idiot. (south america, central america, north america…)
- your worth is not dependent on your ability to finish the 30 day ab challenge.
- “trouble don’t last for always, better enjoy life before its too late.”
- money is nice, but it isn’t everything and it isn’t going to make you happy. no, you have to search for that.
- learn to play that instrument, learn that language, introduce yourself to the new exchange student. new things are just new, they don’t have to be intimidating, and they could change your life for the better.
- that person you’re in love with at 17 is not going to matter when you’re 35.
- live your life for yourself.
- your grades are not everything and your future isn’t going to erupt into flames just because of one failed test.
- you’re not too cool to get excited about things. thats a sad way to live. i’d rather be fulfilled and lame than cool and empty.
- stay away from lonely places.
- just because you do a bad thing, doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.
- don’t settle for temporary validation or temporary happiness, its like eating empty calories.
- when you love someone, you might have to give some things up. you might even have to give them up.
- “even an ‘understanding heart' grows tired of being understanding and never understood.”
- literally just ask yourself what you would do if you weren’t afraid. and then do it.
- twenty one pilots once sang that we’re all battling fear. and if nothing else, that is something you will have in common with everyone you meet. even people you think you are completely opposite of.
- humans are human and they are capable of anything. (literally, look at ripleys believe it or not, we are literally capable of insane things) but the lesson here is anyone is capable of anything and just because you think you know someone that doesn’t mean they can’t turn around and surprise you.
- if you can believe in santa, or the tooth fairy, or the easter bunny for 9 years, you can believe in yourself for 10 seconds.
- love like you’re not afraid to not be loved back.
- remain humble and teachable
- it is inconvenient to be extraordinary
- the people who love you will show you.
- compliment people, you never know how their day is going.
- eat healthy but its okay to take a break and eat some ice-cream or sugar, life hard enough.
- don’t let things like glass ceilings scare you from doing what you love and becoming the best version of yourself
- celebrate progress, not perfection.
- don’t let people make you feel lame for liking what you like. they’re lame.
- look for silver linings everywhere.
- the nights you spend with 2 or 3 friends laughing until your stomach hurts are going to mean a lot more to you later on in life than the nights where you’re at a party pretending to be somebody you’re not.
- smile with your teeth in pictures, you’ll look like you actually want to be there.
- you are all that you have, so you have to be enough.
- all things grow (except like manufactured things obviously, ugh. capitalism.)
- don’t let little dumb things ruin your happiness
- sally from your third grade math class didn’t mean what she said, learn to let things go.
- monogamy is cool polyamory is cool, whatever. as long as everyone in the relationship is comfortable and consenting and aware.
- just be nice!!
- consent is everything.
- if you ever lose someone because you care too much, or you’re too aggressive, you have too much heart, you’re thinking too deep, you love too hard, you’re standards are too high, whatever it may be…well, honestly, the loss isn’t yours.
- say yes to go to the beach or the pool, you can always wash your hair again. don’t rob yourself of memories.
- fat and ugly are not synonymous.
- respect peoples pronouns.
- double text, triple text. whatever. it is okay to show people you care. don’t play the game. you usually end up losing.
- don’t slut shame. its lame.
- just throwing this out there because it seems like something that should be universally agreed upon but for some reason it isn’t, but black lives matter.
- we tend to just accept things because of comfort. i deny that. question things! if something doesn’t feel right, thats probably because it isn’t.
- help make people believe that they are lovely.
- put hot sauce on your eggs and thank me later.
- don’t judge people. you never know whats going on. (if its for religious reasons: if its not okay with God, God will let them know when they check out. for now, you are human just as they are. you are in no position to judge. also, life is more fun when everyone can just be your friend.)
- following #76, it is totally okay to believe in whatever you want and it is totally okay to not believe in anything at all.
- use things, love people. not the other way around.
- scratch your friends back and play with their hair if they ask. they’re small gestures to show you’re love. friendships are like plants: they grow if you water them.
- its important to think about what you’re parents and loved ones want for you. HOWEVER, whats more important than that, is to think about what you want. don’t let expectations of other people completely control your path. its your path and yours alone.
- put yourself in other peoples shoes before you judge their distance.
- good people deserve good people.
- the only person you gotta be good enough for is yourself!!
- there is nothing that you aren’t worthy of.
- try to say no to drugs, get high on life (cringey, but safe)
- people will pretend that you’re a bad person just so that they don’t feel guilty about the things that they did to you and the way they made you feel.
- you are stronger than the walls you build. open up to people, let people be there for you.
- vulnerability is beautiful
- call people things like intelligent, breathtaking, witty. words with weight.
- age is just a number. you can be 17 with your priorities aligned or 49 with no conscience or maturity.
- hangout with your parents. they aren’t around forever.
- love doesn’t hurt you, people who don’t know how to love do.
- i don’t see whats wrong with seeing things in gray, not everything has to be black and white.
- no means no.
- cereal is good at any time
- you deserve people in your life that treat you like you matter every single day. not just when its convenient for them.
- be somebody that makes you happy
- everyone that you keep in your life should make you feel “!!!” inside
- feel everything deeply. some people wish that they could feel anything at all.
- don’t eat that spicy tuna roll if its brown. again, you’ll thank me later.
- if at any point in your life or in 2018 you find yourself unhappy with the choices you’ve made or the person you’ve become, you always get a new day to start again. treat every day like new years day, every day is a new start. every day you should wake up wanting to be better and happier than you were yesterday.
Happy new year, you beautiful human beings of the internet, I am hopeful that the best is yet to come.
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