Be intentional. Reach out to people even if they rarely reach out to you. Have food that both fills you up and nurtures you. Make a habit of catching yourself in the act of being overly critical of the things you do or the way you look (and choose to be nicer to yourself). Pick the scary new thing over the safe familiar thing once in while. Life is best lived when it’s lived consciously and with intent.
the most power anyone has over you should be the power to make you wonder where you can improve, how you can move forward and grow and what it is about you that might need a bit more work. you shouldn’t enter any kind of relationship with the impression that you’re not good enough and it’s only a matter of time before you ruin things, but you also shouldn’t enter any type of relationship thinking that you’re as perfect as you can get and anyone who challenges that idea is wrong. have faith in who you are, but don’t give up on who you could grow into. there are lessons to learn about yourself everywhere.
you never know where you’ll be in a year, so don’t worry too much about that. just work with what you have now, the good and the bad. we only have to go one day at a time.
“in life, mistakes are absolutely inevitable. but the best thing about them is that you can learn from them and use what you learned to become even better than you were before.”