1. You are not dictated to be friends with someone simply based on the number of years you've known them.
Good friends can be bad people. Walk away. It's okay.
2. Take bad pictures. Take blurry pictures. Do not delete them. Take imperfect pictures because you are never more real, more human, than the flawed you in those moments.
3. Take more pictures of what makes you happy. Delete the dark, drab, sad photos from 2008. Capture blurry photos of your friends, cool flowers, sunsets, capture moments that you'll look back at and smile, not ones that will make you cry.
4. Eat clean. When you feel groggy and bad pack a salad instead of greasy food. You won't regret it.
5. Smile. Every day is new. The sun came back up and gave you another chance. Don't let it slip by.
6. Go for it. That job interview your scared for. Playing for the first time in front of a crowd. Trying out for the basketball team. Go for it. You have nothing to lose if you try but everything to lose if you don't.
7. You're still young don't stress it to much. Get done what has to be done, do it well and then have some fun to reward yourself for a job well done.
8. Sleep on it. Everything is
overwhelming at 3 a.m. Sleep on it and then decide.
9. Don't let a "best friend" be the reason you do something. Sadly that best friend isn't a saint. She isn't you. Do things because you want to, not because she said it was cool.
10. It's okay to not have every detail of your future in line. Have a dream and some hope. You'll be fine.
11. Don't listen to sad songs and drive. They don't lie in drivers ed when they say you need ALL your focus. Your life isn't worth the sad chorus of an Arctic Monkeys song tearing you up and distracting you.
12. You're not to young to fall in love, but when you fall out of it don't feel to bad if you land on your ass instead of your feet.
13. You are more than your parents. You can be someone else, you don't have to be like them. Just be you.
14. Your friends are not you, your boyfriend is not you, you are you. Don't change for them. They'll leave and you'll be stuck with you, so you better make sure you can look in the mirror and live with what looks back.
15. It's not cool to smoke, it's not cool to cut, it's not cool to drink, it's not cool to destroy yourself.
16. Fuck what people think. Question things, search for answers, never be satisfied with an answer you haven't looked to solve yourself.
