Throughout 2016, I hope you learn to love yourself. I hope that you surround yourself with the most positive of people. I hope that when people ask you how you’re doing, you can say that you’re doing great and truly mean it. I hope that you fall in love with the world around you, and end up loving life. But most importantly, I hope that 2016 is the year that everything in your life falls into place, and you finally start living.

1. Your skin may never be perfect, and that’s okay. 2. Life is too short not to have the underwear, the coffee, and the haircut you want. 3. Everyone (including your family, your coworkers, and your best friend) will talk about you behind your back, and you’ll talk about them too. It doesn’t mean you don’t love each other. 4. It’s okay to spend money on things that make you happy. 5. Sometimes without fault or reason, relationships deteriorate. It will happen when you’re six, it will happen when you’re sixty. That’s life.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.