As Americans, we are given the freedom to choose exactly what we want in any given situation. As young people, we have so many different opportunities to be exactly who we want to be and sometimes we don’t necessarily take that to our full advantage. Many young people hang onto different situations or people just because that’s what they have always known and don’t know how to do anything any different. Whether it is a relationship, job, friend(s), as a young person you should never hang onto it if it’s not what you want with all of your heart.
Relationships are very hard to get away from when you don’t realize just how toxic it is for you. However, sometimes you do know when it is no longer as wonderful as it once was. That’s when you should just let it go and move on. When you know that there isn’t any more hope and it’s not going anywhere, don’t stay. You want your significant other to be your best friend and someone who can be there throughout your entire life. If that person can no longer offer you everything your heart desires, realistically speaking, then why would you be with that person anyway? Speaking from experience, it’s never good to hold onto that relationship that you’ve had forever; or what has felt like forever, when you know in your heart that it is not going to help you in the long run.
Good jobs are something that are very hard to come by these days, and when you have a good job of course you don’t want to leave it. Sometimes, however, the job can turn out to be not what you expected or what you were told it would be. As a young person, you don’t have to stay there. That’s the best part of being young and looking for a job. New employers always want new people with new ideas and when you’re valued at one place it makes someone else somewhere else think that they could really use you for their team. When you are no longer completely in love with your job, move on and try something new. The best part of a job is when you can wake up and love what you do and then it doesn’t seem like a job, but as soon as you start to dislike something is when it becomes just a regular job that everyone else has. Speaking from recent experience, you will be okay. It’s a very hard thing to do once you have established yourself with a specific company, but you don’t want to spend your entire life at a job that you hate waking up to every morning.
Friends are people who are supposed to be there through thick and thin, no matter what. Sometimes, people that are your so called friends won’t be exactly what they were when you became friends. People change and sometimes it’s not for the better and there is nothing that you can do about it. People will be people and let you down and when it comes to the point of no return, let them go. As you grow older your circle of friends becomes really small, and that’s completely okay! It’s better to have just those few real friends that you can count on no matter what, than those hundreds of friends who can never answer a phone call or text message.
Never let anyone dictate how you live your life, because it is not theirs, it is yours! If you do not like what life you are living, change it. One thing that I have always lived by is to never let anyone else tell me how to feel or how to react to anything. You are the only person who can change your feelings and it should never depend on anyone else. I stand firmly behind that statement because I do not what to live a life where I regret what I did not do when I was younger. I want to be able to tell my grandkids the wonderful stories about the awesome adventures that I took, the wonderful jobs that didn’t really feel like jobs, the best friends that were there from day one, or the man who they will call grandpa. Don’t let anyone rule your life because it’s not theirs to dictate over. Be young and have no regrets overall!
