Dear Gianna,
Tomorrow you will be a freshman and I will too ( just a few hours apart and a few grades ahead). I wanted to share with you 18 things I learned in high school.
Remember the feeling, as you place your shaky hands on the wheel and drive to your first place by yourself with your new license safely tucked away in your wallet. Remember the feeling of the butterflies before your first date. Remember the nights spent calculating the exact time you have to leave to make it home by curfew. Remember it all, because it will be over almost as fast as it begins.
1. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “Will this matter five years from now?”
2. If you’re going to be late to school, you may as well grab a coffee and have a nice breakfast.
3. Life isn’t fair, but it's still good.
4. In order to move on, you need to realize why you felt that way for so long and why you no longer need to feel that way.
5. The only people that deserve your time are the people that seek it.
Nobody is ever “too busy”. If they’re interested, they’ll make time. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Reciprocation does not happen all the time. Do not be too hard on yourself if that is the case. The right person will match your effort.
6. Everything is temporary – no matter how good or how bad.
7. We must give time, time.
However good or bad a situation is, it will change. All that matters, in the end, is that you loved because that is what we were made for. Act accordingly.
8. If everything you do is for the approval of others, then you aren’t really doing anything at all.
9. Always leave people a little bit better than you found them.
10. The unexpected moment is always sweeter.
11. You don’t meet people by accident.
What is for you, will be for you and what isn’t, isn’t. If you meet the right person at the wrong time, chances are they’re not the right person.
12. I know I don’t have to tell you – of all people – this, but pay attention in your ACT class…
13. Send a nice “Good morning, I hope you have a good day,” text to that friend you haven’t talked to in a while.
14. Proverbs 3:5 (oh, and Ephesians 2:19-22).
15. Surround yourself with people who make you feel loved and valued, and it is equally important to be that person for others.
16. See it for what it is, not what you want it to be.
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
17. Invest in people who invest in you.
You can’t hold onto anything that wants to leave.
