2010

a new year. somehow, a new start. i don't know what my resolution will be just yet, but i do have a list of things i learned in 2009

1. you have to love people for who they are, not who you expect them to be. otherwise your whole relationship is built on false pretense.

2. one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to see someone as an idea, a paper person, rather than a living and breathing and feeling human being.

3. not everything gets uglier the closer you get. (sorry to disagree with you there, john green.)

4. "happiness won't find you when you can't see part yourself; the only dreams that matter are your own." is actually a logical statement.

5. the international baccalaureate program was developed by sadists for masochistic teenagers.

6. so were myspace and facebook.

7. music is absolutely everything.

8. sometimes fictitious characters are the devoted reader's closest companion.

9. love can make you do the stupidest, most reckless things ever, but it is, hands down, the best feeling in the world.

10. sometimes you have to give up everything you once had, or have it stripped from you, and rebuild your ideas of yourself.

11. true connection to one or two people trumps friendship with a larger group.

12. family is necessary, and it is heartwarming.

13. appearances aren't nothing, but they don't truly mean anything.

14. sometimes a dog is a better friend than a human can possibly be.

15. happiness can't be measured in quantity or quality alone.

16. naps are the most glorious idea anyone came up with.

17. running from problems only makes them get exponentially bigger with every day that goes by.

18. love gets exponentially bigger with every day that goes by.

19. sometimes you have to be a bitch.

20. you have to appreciate the little things.




my first day of 2010 was the best(: