1. Live every other day like it’s your last one on earth, then live the other days like you’ve got all the time in the world.

2. Get a life, not a career. Never trade in the first for the second. Make a career out of life, not a life out of your career. The amount of money you get annually should not be the measuring standard of your life’s accomplishments. Money depreciates every year. Your time does not - it grows more valuable, the older you get.

3. Facebook is not your ongoing autobiography. Tumblr is not your sense of humor. Google is not the sum of your intelligence. So get out of the house every now and then and watch a movie. Introspect in a park. Call up some friends and plan a trip. Tell a joke to someone in person. Repeat.

4. You’re only as fat as you think you are. Have a banana, have a chocolate bar. Some days you’ll feel thick and bloated, other days you’ll feel svelte and sexy, and this will not be a question of diet or appetite, but a question of attitude.

5. Fall in love as many times as you wish. Fall out of love as many times as you wish. It is not your fault for wanting to end a relationship. Settling for a man or a woman interested in their own needs because you’re afraid of being alone, is not a relationship. Being alone is being with someone who doesn’t love you as much. Break hearts, including your own. Don’t be afraid to say no.

6. Don’t be afraid to say yes.  Say yes to people who want to help. Say yes to skydiving, or cave exploring, or adopting a kitten. Say yes to the opportunities you want, no matter how ridiculous or when everyone else says you shouldn’t. Say yes to nice geeky guys from school who awkwardly ask you out on a date. Eight years from now, you could be telling him ‘I do’. Eight years from now, you could be laughing beside him in bed, debating whether or not Sir Elton John should be required to fight for England in times of war. (He think Sir Elton should.)

7. Argue. Fight for the things you believe in; you have the right to an opinion. Learn magnanimity when you think you are right. Learn humility when you know you are wrong.

8. Write like an asshole. Write like a saint. Write like you’re on death row. Write like you’re on reprieve. Write on the very best day of your life, and write at your absolute worst.

But write.

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