Lessons/Things I Learned In 2021

• Being in love is so hard but so worth it

• Not everyone is who you think they are

• Stop doing everything for everybody but nothing for yourself

• Get your shit together now or it'll be too late

• Start making decisions for yourself, not around what other people want

• You don't need to need people who don't need you

• Start being stingy with the things that are yours

• Always fight for the people who help you remember what it feels like to live

• Care but do not carry

• Be so private you know exactly the things you told to the exact people

• Just because someone loves you doesn't mean you're going to feel loved by them

• Growing and healing isn't linear, and sometimes you'll have setbacks. Thats just a part of the process

• Notice your attachments to your emotions so you can learn how to release the negative effects they bring you

• TAKE. TIME. TO HEAL. YOUR BODY. AND REST!! It doesn't matter how long it takes!

• Stop expecting you from other people

• Evolve or repeat

• Love sometimes isn't enough

• You can't hate yourself into a version you love

• You can't force growth onto a person that doesn't want it or isn't ready for it yet

• If you think you're always right, you leave no room to learn

• You don't really know a person until you deal with them when they're angry, when money is involved, or when you have nothing to give them

• Stop trying to always find the good in people, if there was any you wouldn't need to search so fucking hard

• Stop downplaying your accomplishments that seem small

• In order to make a relationship last, you have to learn how to love every version of them as they change

• Change is uncomfortable, but it can also be exciting

• Nothing in your life is permanent

• The weather weirdly has a lot of effect on my emotions

• Forgive yourself for not knowing better until you knew better

• You'll need to create boundaries with your own mind to control it

• People will literally use your presence to boost their egos

• You don't just have to have one passion or career your entire life

• Please don't become suffocated under everyone's ideas and expectations of you

• We all face the same feelings of hopelessness, it's what we decide to do with it that's different for all of us

• If the mind understands too much about reality it wants to destroy itself

• As you get older your family becomes smaller

• Social media is sooo stupid

• Listen more than you talk

• We live in energy; get rid of everything you feel is no longer apart of you

• Art is anything you want it to be. Theres no creative boundaries

• Fresh air or being outside always calms my anxiety

• Never stop taking pictures of the sky

• You're not missing out because you have different priorities than others

• Sometimes you don't get what you want because you deserve better

• People can only love you as much as they love themselves

• I do everything better when I am alone

• Somethings happen for a reason, but some things are hard to understand. Not everything is meant to be understood

• Gratitude means a lot when you're stuck in a place you don't want to be but are still okay with waiting for something better