Enjoy "your people" while you've got 'em.

Don't say that you will start making relationships a priority tomorrow, or once you both get your act together. It's so easy to get caught in either of those traps - trust me, I do it all the time.

They say busy is the new lazy.

I can picture how I used to load my schedule each semester. Every hour and minute was jam-packed with activities and causes that are good and important, but I failed to realize this: even though I was around people all day, I was never really present with them or engaged with their lives on a deep level. I didn't make time to know them as people - as people with stories, with struggles and joys - because I had to race from one thing to the next.

Basically, I was lazy in relationships.

Here I am now, struggling to form meaningful, lasting relationships, trying to love people for their awesome qualities as well as their flaws. It's difficult.

Here I am, looking for a few opportunities to lend a helping hand by truly getting involved in lives, not just seeing serving as one more thing to check off the list.

It's a hard road, but at least I've got a shot without overbusyness standing in the way.

Don't wait... especially as a twenty-something, life situations change quickly. A sibling moves out, sometimes far away; friends go off to grad school or get married; people find new niches and hobbies.

And in light of recent terrorist events, I think it's time to wake up from our overproductive, self-focused lifestyles.

I don't want to ever say "I wish" - I wish I spent more time with them, or I wish I gave that relationship my all. At the end of your life, you won't regret more of these things: making memories, laughing plenty, and deepening relationships with the people that matter the most.