- Date someone who says, “I love you” first.
- End the relationship that makes you act like a lunatic
- Find a hobby that makes being alone feel lovely and empowering and like something to look forward to.
- Go on a 4-day, brunch-fueled bender.
- Go out and watch that movie, read that book, listen to that band you already lied about watching, reading, listening to.
- Identify your fears
- Kiss someone you think is out of your league; kiss models and med students and entrepreneurs with part-time lives in Dubai and don’t worry about if they’re going to call you afterward.
- Learn to say ‘no’ — to yourself.
- Leave the country under the premise of “finding yourself.”
- Lose the friend whose sole purpose in life is making you feel like you’re perpetually on the verge of vomiting
- Make a habit of cleaning up and letting go.
- Make a habit of going outside, enjoying the light, relearning your friends, forgetting the internet.
- Make a habit of telling people how you feel
- Make peace with your parents.
- Meet someone better than you.
- Minimize your passivity.
- Open a savings account.
- Quit that job that’s making you miserable
- Recognize freedom as a 5:30 a.m. trip to the diner with a bunch of strangers you’ve just met.
- Stop hating yourself.
- Suck it up and buy a Macbook Pro.
- Take advantage of health insurance while you have it.
- Take time to revisit the places that made you who you are
- Try not to beat yourself up over having obtained a ‘useless’ Bachelor’s Degree.
- Work a service job to gain some understanding of how to keep your cool around assholes
jan 4 2012 ∞
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