• talk before it's too late

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• it's way cooler (and easier) to be kind than to be hateful!

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• vocalize what you want!

>> this may sound funny, but reddit quite literally gave me the push i needed! picture me, thinking “i really want to hang out with this person again as i had so much fun, but they haven’t told me anything... what if they don’t want to? after all, we kind of have just met. what if they dislike me!?”—when all of a sudden, i remembered this very, VERY long AITA post i read just the day before. it was about a couple struggling with their relationship, all because they didn’t communicate properly with each other—which made me realize that this person couldn’t possibly know that i wanted to hang out with them unless they were a mind reader, so i should voice it if i want it to happen. plus, it doesn’t necessarily had to mean that they dislike me: after all, i myself have a lot of friends who i really appreciate but don’t usually ask them to hang out! so, that’s how i went and i send them a text, they said it was cool by them, and we are close friends now.

• compliment people to make their (and your) day better!

>> to be honest, before i wasn’t the type of person who would compliment like, ever—but my exboyfriend was. when we were together, he would compliment me randomly and tell me words of appreciation: which made me wonder why didn’t i do so too since it was such a kind gesture! people love compliments and being appreciated, specially if it comes from the heart. i remember this one time when i saw a guy wearing the coolest jacket, and he was beaming when i let him know that i loved it. it made me feel really happy about it too, thinking that i may have brighten his day like someone brighten mine the day i was feeling insecure about a bow i was wearing. i was literally thinking “is it too big? why didn’t i just left it at home?” before somebody approached me and took me out of my thoughts by saying “i really like your bow, it looks great on you!”. that’s why i now try to do it as much as i can, since it makes us both feel happy and i can change somebody’s day for the better!

• talk to make up!

>> my best friend and I, whenever we forgive each other after an argument, we always come to the same conclusion: if we had talked things through, we would have made up way sooner. it’s funny because later, we always go on and on laughing at ourselves as we still struggle with that (even if everything turns out okay at the end)! plus, i’ve come to realize that it just isn’t worth losing my best friend over a silly argument—and i think they did too, as we both are quite stubborn but we have started to apologize right after for our friendship’s sake.