- Some friends will believe in you more than you believe in yourself. Those people are gold. Keep them for as long as you can.
- When working in an institution where a hierarchy exists, if even vaguely, remember that those around won’t always take your moving up as well as you will.
- Stay neutral in situations where gossip exists. Birds chirp and not all their songs are beautiful.
- The way your truest friends react to disagreements will reveal more about their soul than it will about their opinions.
- Taking responsibility for your actions is never a sign of weakness, but a sign of courage.
- Stray cats can be scary. Cute, but scary.
- Networking can be as simple as going for crepes with a friend. There may just be a Vice-President of a big corporation ease dropping on your conversation. That said, make more clever jokes. Vice-Presidents like those.
- Set more goals. Eat more greens. Don’t downplay your hard work.
- The Universe doesn’t give a fuck about your feelings, if there’s a path waiting for you believe that the Universe will make you walk it.
- When people are cruel stand up for yourself with a giant smile on your face: know your value systems and refuse to compromise.
- The people you surround yourself with are apart of the village that raises you. If they suck, you should move.
- Call your mom. She loves you.
- Self-love is like food and water. Don’t go out looking for a soulmate if you can’t recognize the importance of your own soul.
- Peppermint oil is good for headaches, so is a diet with less cookies and more cucumbers.
- Never lower your standards. Fuck People Magazine and their 70 Tips to Catch a Hot Bachelor.
- Taking some time away from school isn’t a bad thing. You’re allowed to have dreams that are different from that of your peers, your paths will never be identical so stop thinking that they need to be.
- Optimism is not a sign of naivety, but a way of giving yourself a small nudge in the right direction.
- Always give grandma a kiss before you head home.
- Try to understand that people accustomed to privilege will take any method for equality as oppressive.
- Sometimes you’ll want to lie in bed all day and you fucking deserve it.
- Don’t use the opinions of others to validate your existence. You won’t last long that way.
- Just because you only got 3 likes on that essay you wrote does not mean it isn’t good.
- “Be attached to nothing and open to everything.”
- Carry Tupperware to any and every social event. They will always have extra food and will always want you to take some home.
- Dishes aren’t so bad.
What I’ve learned/known in the Last 120 Days
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