College is different. It's going to be this weird time of your life where you have responsibilities but aren't an adult in the full sense of the word. You will grow and crash and figure things out but among all this, don't forget who you are. It’s easy to lose yourself. So easy. We can lose ourselves trying to please others or trying to be the most important person to a friend. We forget who we can be to ourselves.

Above all, we need to realize the harsh truth is that the future is uncertain. Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow or a year after or even the next minute. We just go through the motions thinking and hoping that it will be alright. In the same way, we don't know who will stay with us through our whole book and who will leave after a chapter or even a page. The worst feeling in the world is realizing you are willing to invest so much of yourself to make a friendship - or any relationship for that matter - work but the person on the other side is not willing to do so. I feel that being mature is realizing people out there have their own agendas, their own feelings, their own life plan and if you aren't in it, you can’t force your way into it.

You will be causing a disservice to yourself and when anything gets in the way of how you view yourself, it's time to let go.

Because as much uncertainty as you have in your life, one person is always going to be there for you if you let them. Yourself.

The cliche of falling in love with yourself before you fall in love with anyone else applies not only to your romantic or sexual relationships but also any friendship. You must realize you are the most important thing you have and hold on to your worth.

So, take yourself out on dates, treat yourself with your favorite show, go to movie theaters alone, listen to music in a crowded cafe, buy yourself cute things, and fall in love with yourself. Find out what you like, what you want, and what makes you happy before figuring these things out for another person. As I said, in the end, who do you have? Yourself.