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So what if you’re alone right now. Embrace it. Go get coffee alone. Shop alone. Drive alone. Watch movies alone. Get to know yourself. Nothing bad can come from riding whatever wave to self improvement you’re blessed with in the moment.

something I think people, especially young people, don’t have enough gratitude for life. This year I sort of began this journey of falling in love with life after going through hell. And I realised that I’m so incredibly lucky to be alive each day, taking in a breath, being able to see, being able to see in colour, being able to bend my arms, having arms and legs to bend! I don’t think we are appreciative enough of these simple things! My mother was practically immobile while she was pregnant with me because she was informed that she had a 90% chance of having a miscarriage and when I was born, there wasn’t a doctor present and my umbilical chord was wrapped three times around my neck! I’m so frickin grateful! To be here! And I’m not going to let anything stop me from achieving the best I can with my life now that I’m here! So take a breath and name three things you’re grateful for. Do this as often as you can. Take out your headphones out and go for a walk in nature and let yourself fall in love with life.

reminder: you can start over at anytime. your day is not ruined. your world is not over. take a deep breath. start over.

sometimes you need to do the hard thing. study for your test even if it’s boring and you want to avoid it. get up an hour early to exercise even if you feel like death. go out of your way to help someone else even if it’s inconvenient. do something alone even though you’re afraid of being judged. go somewhere new even if it’s scary and disorientating at first. confess to the person who makes u blush even if it means risking rejection. let go of your old habits even though it feels like you can’t live without them. it’s supposed to be hard. life isn’t going to have amazing rewards if you’re always feeling comfortable.

Motivation

“Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have?” - Kerry Johnson

the sad thing is, everyone thinks they’re so forgettable, or they don’t mean anything to anyone. but you don’t see your high school friend, smiling to themselves, when they think about your quirks or how dramatic you used to be whenever you got a crush. you don’t see the person who saw you around a lot but was always too shy to talk to you. you don’t remember the person you helped, and maybe you didn’t do much for them, but you didn’t know that they were having a shitty month and you sparked their first real smile in weeks. you don’t see the person that secretly loved you too, who never forgot the soft words that you said, or the way you smiled whenever you saw them, or how you reminded them of sunshine and flowers; and how the thought of you pops into their mind more than you will ever know and in the randomest of places. you will never know that a soft song or strawberries or a sunset will remind someone of you. they will go to the beach and think of you for some reason, until they remember that the last time they saw a color as beautiful and as profound as the ocean was when they looked in your eyes. no one knows their impact on people, or their worth. no one thinks they will be missed when they leave, but they don’t know that once you go into someone’s life, even for a fleeting moment, you stay forever, and you take up a soft place that no one else could ever replace.

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt