30 Things I've Learned (and one extra)
- Know when to try and know when to experience - science class in college
- Expensive champagne is better than cheap champagne
- Move to a place where going home isn't an option when shit hits the fan
- Live with roommates
- Live alone
- Know at least one good bottle of wine
- Be broke
- Pay off debt
- Do something that could kill you
- Impulsively buy a ticket to travel
- Always wash your face before bed
- Burn the candle. Use the nice silverware
- Quit a job
- Take a solo cross country road trip
- Own at least one really nice pair of shoes
- Have a list of non-negotiables
- Be curious
- Graduate from college. Get a job. Find your passion. Take a cheap class
- Listen to the words
- Read ACTUAL books
- Pack snacks
- Have things no one can take from you
- Advice gets tainted over the years
- Fall in love with the wrong guy
- Know where you want to go but not how you're going to get there
- Always give love another chance
- Learn the difference between having sex, fucking and making love
- Travel. Anywhere. Everywhere.
- Have girlfriends. Date them. Seriously.
- Break your own fucking rules
30 Things. There are so many more, these are just the highlights over a lifetime of learning. I'm not one for advice, but if I were it would be simple. Never give up. It didn't make the list but it's not something I've learned, it's something I've always known. It's something I've experienced. I've been tested on it time and time again, but perhaps never as much as throughout the last 3 years. I restarted this blog as a way to let my friends and family down South know that I was surviving. I wanted a way to let everyone know at once how I was doing, without the individual phone calls, the individual acknowledgement of something I couldn't yet talk about out loud. Somewhere along the way though the writing became my therapy. Somewhere along the way I started piecing myself back together again and crawling back into myself. Never give up. Somedays it was this simple fact that got me out of bed. Somedays it was this simple fact that kept me there.
I have in no way lived life perfectly. I have fallen hard. Quick. I have gotten up slowly. In many ways I'm still learning to walk again, in others I'm at the end of a hard fought marathon. Life changes at a rapid rate, which is good - even amongst the bad. I haven't always understood this in the moment. I haven't always accepted the changes. I've let go of people too soon and held on to others too long. And there for awhile I let go of myself. But in hiding behind the words, I stepped out in front of everyone. Quite simply - this blog helped bring me back to life.
Never give up - Relationships. Friends. Second chances. Self........dreams.