1. the friends you have at the beginning of the year can completely change by the end of it. people change, and if they aren't improving your life in some way, it's okay to drop them.
2. take many pictures. don't let it take over your life, though. you don't want to look back and see that you only captured your memories with your camera lens and not within your mind and heart.
3. be nice to everyone. you honestly don't know what skeletons people are hiding in their closets. everyone has their skeleton. every person on this earth has something in their life or past worth collapsing on the ground in unconteollable sobs over.
4. Music has an indescribable ability to connect and heal. let it do it's thing.
5. Her prettiness doesn't make your prettiness any less pretty.
6. Getting close and letting someone in is scary as hell. you know what else it is? worh it.
7. the minute you feel your happiness being dictated by someone else, take a break from them.
8. Feel everything and let in hurt, but don't go back to what broke you.
9. tell people how you feel. even if you're scared it'll burn your life to the ground. you say it loud.
10. Swollen lips and sweaty " i want you's " can make you feel again, but i don't want to feel anything if it means having to sit there feeling like the wind is constantly being knocked out of me when he stops calling back.
11. Sometimes the way you think of someone isn't the way they actually are.
12. you only need youself, but having people by your side trying to understand means a lot more than you might think.