Stop having set “qualifications” for a boyfriend/girlfriend. Being a lover is not a fucking job, and you’re not hiring a fucking employee. and yes, they will make mistakes. Yes, they will be different from what you expected. They’re human, and they have no fucking clue what they’re doing. But they love you, and they love every minute of you. So please, give them a chance.

45 Lessons plus 5 to grow on

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.

8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.

12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.

16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.

18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In five years, will this matter?”

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.

35. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.

36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.

38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.

41. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

42. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

45. The best is yet to come.

46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

48. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.

49. Yield.

50. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.

by: Regina Brett

When Things Started To Scare You Off

So, you know what guys, today was sooooo much fun with my pals BUT it was pretty exhausting at first. This reminds me that exhaustion might taste the sweetest even when you think you're screwed. To start this off, I'm saying that today was free day from school and so as if it was planned long before, some of my friends who are joined in an organisation is going abroad to the US today. It's US. US. It's like, half of this mother earth away from here and they might or might not come back here. we are not afraid that they won't come back because of course they would, either it's in a month, a year or ten more years to come, but rather we're afraid that changes would come and so we can't be friends anymore.

I'm going to lose a lot of friends this year just for one reason: they're moving on with their lives. You know, it's not a good feeling; letting go of people you care about or at least you used to. I don't know how to say this but they are clearly pretty amazing people; I mean my friends who are going.

At the airport, I met Andri. she was there for her friend who is also departing with the same organisation as my friends and I remembered that she's also leaving later this month. My first thought of it was, "Hell, I thought it's gonna be the last friends leaving, in fact she's still in the queue." I know that this is what things are gonna be like next year, because im a high school senior and we'll definitely find our own ways together, and each of it with different pathways. I always thought that life wouldn't be that bad even if it happens but truth is, it's not happening yet and it feels hard already. Because it's not that easy to keep saying, "well, we're friends" because let's face it, I've been there before: losing my best friends. I've been there several times before and though I might don't feel anything in fact that's my own loss. and I am not going to make the same mistake again.

Is this a warm up?

(okay, I'm blabbing again I'm sorry)

I Can't Stop You Fighting To Sleep

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at the Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy but it’s always there—fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were message of hate or revenge—they were all message of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion… love actually is all around.

Love Actually

I Love Parks Too, Agy

Agyness Deyn and Miles Kane at Hampstead Heath Park (in case you don't have a GPS, it's in North London)

Oh and if you are such a music moron, Miles Kane is the frontman of bands The Rascals and his famous side project with Arctic Monkeys' (and Alexa Chung's) Alex Turner. That is the reason behind this uber cool double date:

I love you, I think we're supposed to love each other

I Am Mock-ingbird

I loathe some specific kind of people and therefore I could be such a mock-ingbird.For now, I would think of people who try their ass to look as if they are rich and can do or simply just get whatever they want. Because there’s no such a thing. If you got no money, you got no money so don’t pretend as if you can eat around, order fancy food or simply just do what they want.Like, you have to owe someone just so that you can buy a Starbucks or have a hair treatment at the saloon? or maybe, you have to BEG to some people so that they can pay your meal?I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but people will accept you just the way you are. If your friends ask you to have lunch, that’s because they can afford their own meal, and if you know you can’t, just say no, or, well, order something you can. You can just order some water if you really have to stay in the circle!Do not follow trends if it’ll kill you. Do you really need an expensive thing to look rich?

YES?

Then congratulations. you are who you are.

 MIDDLE CLASS.

 Those two behaviors are so middle class. You don’t need to owe. Or beg. You’re not a begger, are you? Just be true about who you are. People would understand. Fuck prestige, fuck friendship. You might lose someone’s trust just because you have to owe them MONEY.

We'll both forget the breeze most of the time

"I fell in love with her, Alice." 

"Oh, as if you had no choice? There's a moment, there's always a moment, "I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it", and I don't know when your moment was, but I bet you there was one."

Fallin' in Love?

I don't know :))))))))