Over the summer, I kept a journal for the last two weeks. which I will be posting excerpts from as I see them to be appropriate.

Most of the time, they were complaints about work, other times they were notes I had just written on my phone and pieced together. But as meaningless as they may sound, they all meant something to me at the time.

Here is entry number one:

1. Best friends are the people in life that make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.

2. Life is weird. First you wanna grow up, then you wanna be a kid again.

3. Sometimes you can't explain what you feel for a person.

4. Nothing compares to the stomach ache you get from laughing with your best friends.

5. Tomorrow is never promised to anyone, so dance until your side hurts; say I love you to those you love for tomorrow may never come.

6. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

7. If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.

8. Don't over think. Don't regret. It's a waste of time.

9. Sometimes the only blessing you need to count is your heartbeat.

10. People will change, memories won't.

I often find quotes like these in my notes on my phone and have literally no idea why they are there, but sometimes I am so glad that they are. They remind me to appreciate what I have.

“People will change, memories won’t” is so true to my life, because even though I have lost friends and drifted apart from some I still remember our good memories together with a great fondness. How can you not? If you find someone is a bad friend, I don’t think that should taint your memory of the good times you had with one another, it is like erasing a part of your life because of one bad detail and we should not do that.

Life goes quickly and every experience is a good experience if you flip it the right way.

--Quote by me, July, 2016