12 things I have learned

With each passing day, I get further and further from what I used to be.
Of course I still remember, and miss, a few things from the past--
but I'm getting pretty good at realizing that every time something changes,
it isn't the end of the world-- and to always be prepared for
'see you later' to mean goodbye, and for 'goodbye' to mean forever.

Here are some things I learned the past few months:

1) You can't trust everyone, even people who promise. If you even have to ask yourself if that person is trustworthy, then they probably aren't.

2) Stop trying to put things into order.
Real life doesn't fit into boxes that were drawn for it.

3) No matter what you do, and no matter how you try,
some people are just never going to like you.

4) Being grown up and boring is
a lot better than being young and in jail.

5) I am: left of center, fat, a little cocky, and a lot laidback and indifferent.
But there are a LOT worse things that I could be.

6) Sometimes I just don't FEEL like it,
and that should be okay.

7) In three years, you're not going to know any of these shitheads.
So why try and impress them now?

8) In fact, why try to impress anybody?
Just do your thing and get the hell out of here.

9) No one can give you a timeline. You'll be over it when you're over it,
and not before. Just be patient, and let time run it's course.

10) People are always going to take things out of context.

11) You cannot believe someone who promises you everything. Everything doesn't belong to them.

12) Sometimes you have to let people go to see if they come back to you.
And sometimes when they come back, you have to let them go again.