Happy Friday and happy birthday to me! I'm currently writing this blog post on my birthday from Panera because Comed decided to shut off our power today to do some work I guess, so here I am beginning my celebrating with a bagel and a coffee. I thought this would be a fun post to do because I really feel like I've grown a lot in the last year between moving out and learning to balance that with working full time and going to school. I turn 22 today and looking back I remember being 13-14 and just having such a hard time with everything, so today I decided to kind of write a letter to my younger self sharing some things that I've learned over the last 22 years.
1. Spending time with family is always a good idea whether it's spending a weekend at home or just an hour getting lunch with mom.
2. You don't always have to wear makeup. Sooner or later you'll just get more comfortable without it or become too lazy to always put it on. Either way, go you.
3. Getting a complement about your personality makes you feel a lot better than getting one based off of your looks.
4. Having a few great friends is better than having a lot of not so great friends.
5. What other people think of you really doesn't matter, if you do your own thing you'll be so much happier.
6. Some (if not most) things won't go as you planned but just try to go with the flow, everything will work out eventually.
7. Dad is right 98% of the time... "people suck."
8. When you get the chance to travel DO IT. It might be the only chance you ever get.
9. Don't get sucked into people who are manipulative. Even if you think he's the greatest thing ever, listen to your girlfriends when they tell you to get rid of him.
10. Hold the door open for people, say hello, smile at strangers..it makes everyone happier.
11. Getting drunk at home on a Saturday night in your pajamas is completely okay.
12. So is laying in bed hungover on a Sunday.
13. If your gut is telling you something is wrong or right, listen to it.
14. You will meet the most important people in your life in college, so not having the best time in high school is not a big deal.
15. Your annoying little brother will turn out to be one of your best friends.
16. Drink more water, your skin will thank you.
17. You'll grow apart from people that you thought you never would and that's okay.
18. Staying home for college will give you a whole new definition of the "college experience" and it's not too bad. You'll get to do a lot of things that others don't get to do.
19. You've always been cautious, you're always going to be cautious. Enjoy being the mom of the group for life.
20. Wait for the guy that you can sing as loud as you want to in the car and he'll sing along with you.
21. Mom's always right. She's always your supporter. She's always going to be there.
22. There's always time and room in your brain to learn more. Learn as much as you can while you can.
No comments:
Post a Comment