1. Love Fucking Hurts
We've all fallen in and out of love, our twenties will undoubtably bring us heartache. As a women in her early twenties, I've been assured it gets easier, it takes less time to put down the ice cream and turn off Adele.
2. It's Hard To Save Money
Don't I know it. It's easy to spend half your pay check on ubers, food and countless asos orders but when you have a 5 year plan and expensive car taste is it really worth it? The price of living goes up but your salary remains the same, so no matter how much you need those ripped jeans even though you've got 20 pairs just like it, put it in your basket and "forget" to check out. Trust me your bank account will break up with you if you continue to abuse the plastic.
3. Health Is The Most Important Thing
Health is detrimental to your happiness. It comes before boys, careers and everything and anything else.
4. Online Banking Is Life Giving
Transferring money, checking your dreaded bank balance and paying bills is always painful but doing it all from the comfort of your bed makes it a little more bearable.
5. Stress Is A Real Thing
All I can say is take each day as it comes. Don’t let stress consume you, live your life and work through struggles and hardships with a positive attitude.
6. Some People Are Only Meant To Be In Your Life For A Certain Amount Of Time
This is a difficult one to accept, but sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is let them go. Relationships can become toxic and you’ll end up resenting the person more and more as time goes on. Is it worth all that energy? I thought not. Work on building and maintaining relationships you already have.
7. School Didn't Teach You Shit
How to do your taxes, how to manage your bills, how to be an adult. I don't have a clue on how to do my taxes but I'm sure the binomial theorem will come in handy. The truth is you just learn to become an adult, life has a way of teaching you life lessons to help you along your way, but if you ever get stuck just refer back to your A-level maths text book.
8. Love Yourself First
If you don't love yourself, how do expect someone else to?
9. Mind Over Matter
My friend Ali once let me in on a little life lesson, one he lives by. I feel like I'm doing my good deed for the day by sharing it with you. 'Mind over matter. I don't mind if you don't matter.' Wise words from someone who once asked me how to make a pot noodle.
10. Never Leave Things Unsaid
Ever heard of a thing called closure? You can’t attain closure if you leave things unsaid. Fact. Communicate with each other because without communicating you’ll never know how the other one truly feels. No-one ever wants to live their life with ‘what if’ the same rules apply, because leaving things unsaid can ultimately make or break any relationship.
I am a firm believer that nothing in life is handed to you, you work hard for opportunities and experiences in life. Everyone makes their own successes and along the way we need to learn to balance a working life with a healthy social life. Everyone has different driving forces in life, and your career may be one of them, but live a little, check a few things off your fuckit list.
12. Life Is A Game Of Give And Take
It's not easy figuring out how to juggle it all. But spending time being worried about what everyone else thinks and trying to make everyone else happy is the fastest way to lose your balance and make yourself miserable. Relationships and friendships are a two way street, you can't expect to be chased all the time but at the same time you shouldn't be doing all the chasing either, if it's mutual it'll happen naturally.
13. You Won't Always Make The Right Choices
But you always have the power to try to make your choices correctly.
14. You're Always Growing
You should never be afraid of things you are yet to achieve or experience. Life will give out slaps as well as a helping hand. Appreciate both, because life isn't plain sailing, its about time you realised that. Appreciate that the past has shaped you into the person you are, you will continue to grow and look back at it all the good, the bad and the ugly and you'll be thankful you experienced it.
15. Success Is The Best Revenge
Enough said.
16. That One Love Your Mother Warned You About
Every mother knows the pain of your first heartbreak. The first is often the worst, but there is that one love that she warns you about. The one that breaks you but ultimately makes you you. Try not to resent that love because no matter how painful and ugly it became, it was love.
17. Don’t Hold A Grudge
If you need cut someone out of your life, go ahead but holding a grudge will drain your energy. Set boundaries, but don't dwell over the reasons why you had to establish them.
18. You Can’t Make Everyone Happy
This is something I struggle with, I’m a people pleaser and I find it difficult to say no, but sometimes that can cause more harm then good. Learn that not everyone will like you and that’s okay. Personally I struggle with the idea of knowing someone hates me. I’ll admit it dents my ego but I just have to learn to live with it. Every situation is unique with circumstance ranging from severe to worse, but someones opinion of you shouldn’t matter if they are no longer relevant in your life. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, you may not agree or like it but don’t waste your energy trying to change something that isn’t detrimental to your personal happiness.
19. Admitting Mistakes and Apologising Is A Sign Of Strength, Not Weakness
I used to think that apologising was a sign of weakness. But now I know that ignoring your mistakes and being full of yourself, by having a huge ego is a sign of weakness. If you are wrong, admit it and apologise.
I used to think that apologising was a sign of weakness. But now I know that ignoring your mistakes and being full of yourself, by having a huge ego is a sign of weakness. If you are wrong, admit it and apologise.
20. No One Is Perfect
We're all a work in progress. People may seem like they have their shit together, but thats not the case. Everyone has something they are working through. Perfection is not attainable, but we can always better ourselves, so strive to be your best self.
We're all a work in progress. People may seem like they have their shit together, but thats not the case. Everyone has something they are working through. Perfection is not attainable, but we can always better ourselves, so strive to be your best self.
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