- Some things I can't change, so it's best to just accept them. Really. It frees up so much time and physical and emotional energy if I learn to just go with things. Even though that's cussing hard sometimes.
- If I have the choice between doing something and not doing something, usually I should choose the doing something. Within reason, of course. But I remember better and with more fondness the spontaneous ice skating trips with friends than the nights of going to bed early.
- Ice cream is better than no ice cream.
- Exercise in any form is about the best thing for me, especially when it takes place with friends.
- Adopting an attitude of just deciding to love everyone does wonders for my mood. It makes me so happy when I can just look at a person and say, "They are a great person. Everyone is just so great."
- Music is really, really important to me, and somehow helps me define what's going on in my life.
- As much as I like to fly solo sometimes, I think its good to make as many friends as possible wherever I go, because you can really never tell what it will lead to.
- Life is not actually a movie. Things don't always just happen in a way that would sell movie tickets. I have to figure out what is going on when there is a whole range of possibilities, from actually nothing to potentially quite a bit. And it sucks, sometimes.
- I know that I have a lot of people looking out for me and usually things work out as hard I try to make a mess of things.
- If I want something, I've gotta go out and take it. Sometimes things just happen but more often than not it's only because I make them happen (but don't think for a second I make the mistake of believing I'm totally in control here).
- Trying new things, like skiing or country dancing or telling people my feelings (even if they may not be the actual people I should be telling), is scary, but very liberating. Sometimes, it doesn't really go that well, but I laugh and pretend it did, and so I feel that no one can judge me for failing if I really went for it.
- I will probably never be able to completely control my thoughts. Bummer.
- A wise person who probably doesn't remember telling me that "no one really likes it when the other person plays it cool" essentially changed everything about this semester. This person also gave me countless hours of advice and listening time and shes basically been my rock in general and I have no idea what person I'd be right now without her.
- I am one hundred percent sure that I picked the right school, and I absolutely love it. I love being a student in this city.
- Most of the time, everything is really fine. It's just me that goes a little crazy.
- There are a lot of people in this world.
- There are a lot a lot (saying it twice is as effective as finding a better phrase) of opportunities that I've missed, probably a ton that I don't even know about. But there is no use regretting them, the only thing to do is resolve to not let any more (or as many more) pass by.
- You can kill a lot of time if you really put you mind to it.
- I sometimes steal lines from songs/movies/TV shows and use them as my own, and sometimes it works. Such as the previous bullet point (Thanks Ben Harper).
- I want to forever be a learner. There is so much to learn, and everything learned shapes me in some way. I feel like (and I think this may be something I've heard somewhere) I am kind of just the sum total of all the people I've known and the experiences I've had, which means I want to keep experiencing as much as I can.
- It's a wonderful life.
There is so much more that I've learned, I could probably go on forever, but I'll just stop here.
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