move to a new city. smile at all people. compliment your friends on their peach coloured sunglasses and their sunshine yellow hoodie and their high heeled boots. find small cafés run by old french couples and speak their language to them while you try their entire menu by turn. take people you love there. get yourself an apartment high up in a skyscraper and teach yourself to stop being anxious about wind blowing against your front door. teach yourself that not everybody you meet is going to hurt you. sleep at 9pm and wake up at 3am. make notes with post-it's and highlighters. start a studyblr. walk around the city aimlessly and take all the stray kittens you find to shelters. convince your friends and roommates to adopt some. use a typewriter instead of your macbook for your poetry. keep in touch with your closest friend even though they're in a different county. fedex them those shoes screamed their vibe when you saw them and your mother that perfume that smelt like something you'd associate with her. buy yourself that starbucks drink you've been wanting without worrying about how many calories it has. watch the rain from your balcony. read a book while you inhale the scent of good health from your cup of carrot juice. monitor how many vitamins you have each day and allow yourself to feel proud. go for a run first thing in the morning. miss the people you're miles away from. do not let the missing drown you. ride its wave and call them instead. value the people you have around you. make your bed every morning. paint your nails electric blue, and each time you feel your confidence dropping, look at them, and convince yourself that you rule the world.
-how to be reborn| 10:45pm
