B B Y T T H

5 things I would tell my 23 year old self: 1. You're not going to be the first person to do anything. Do it anyway. Do it even though you're honestly kind of bad at it. Get better at doing it again, and then again. 2. That being said, know when to quit. Quit smoking, quit judging people because you're insecure, quit overlaying your eyebrows. Actually...maybe bleach them. 3. A lot of things are going to happen that feel senseless and unmanageable. I don't have words of wisdom for that. I don't know that I believe things happen for a reason, but I do think that we give stuff meaning. So when shit happens (and lol, trust and believe it will) you have to be the one to make it meaningful. 4. You weirdly have an ability to be simultaneously passive as hell *and* take things too seriously sometimes. That's fine, some of that will be useful for you, but you will also learn a lot of the things you worry about really aren't that deep, and a lot of the things you're not paying attention to you'll wish you would have some day.