17 Lessons for 2017

1. You can’t love someone into loving you. 

2. People don’t change, they are only revealed. 

3. Be the person you want to love.

4. Frendship is love as much as any romance.

5. You don’t leave the people you love alone.

6.The opposite of loving is not hating, but leaving.

7. If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

8. Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone you care about.

9. There is no way to know why someone has not contacted you, until they contact you and explain themselves.

10. No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

11. There is a difference between privacy and secrecy.

12. There are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.

13. Sometimes sorry doesn’t always mean, “I’m sorry.” Sometimes sorry simply means, “I don’t have words to explain what I’m feeling.”

14. Don’t equate your experience with someone else’s. Experiences are never the same.

15. Universal struggle does not make the struggle universal. 

16. It’s a lot harder to forgive the same offense again every time the memory recurs - you just have to try harder every time. 

17. Don’t wait too long. Life happens when you are busy planning.