words to live by.

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10 things my mother taught me when I was 13

1. Sometimes it's going to hurt. You're going to sit on the floor screaming at the ceiling and pulling your hair and trying to tear the skin off your bones. You're going to fall asleep with tears burning holes in your cheeks and praying that you won't wake up. But you will. You will always wake up. Be glad. It's going to stop hurting.

2. Do things you love. Kiss the boy from down the street because he told your best friend that he thinks you have pretty eyes. Sleep on the floor because your bed doesn't feel right. Cry because you miss him. Smile because you're going to be okay but he's always going to be a mess. Laugh until your stomach hurts and you can't breathe. Fall apart and put yourself back together again.

3. When the boy you love gets drunk and kisses another girl and his words hit you right in the heart and knock the wind out of your chest, try to remember that the world isn't caving in on you even though it feels like it is.

4. Nothing really matters as much as you think it does.

5. The sky is blue because it's sad, but the clouds are white because there are still little wisps of hope flying around in the air and sometimes they fill the whole damn sky and that's how you know you're going to be alright.

6. When you were born, I put a barbed wire fence around your heart for protection. Any boy who gets there is going to have scraped up knees and blood pouring from his hands. If he sticks around, help him clean up the cuts.

7. When you're convinced that there's nothing left inside you, remember that you've got the entire galaxy under your tongue and the world in your bones. There are flowers growing from your cheeks, sometimes you just need to water them a little, crying helps.

8. When someone says they love you, believe it, chances are they mean it.

9. Don't waste your time crying over people who hurt you. You're giving in. You're letting them win. And baby if they don't have you then they've already lost, so don't give them the satisfaction of breaking.

10. Try not to grow up too fast.

so by ed sheeran.