Anonymous asked: what's some of the best advice you could give somebody in general?
oooh good question anonymous. here is my list:
- cliche but so true: this too shall pass. literally every shitty situation i’ve ever been in throughout my life has eventually gotten better. it’s so hard to hear but i promise it’s true. time can be a beautiful thing
- live for yourself (but still do good for others). do the things that make you happy and don’t let worrying about other people get in the way. again, cliche but way true. i guess i mean go into the mindset of doing what you love because you love it, and the other people stuff will just fall into place. i have wanted to go to tanzania since i was five years old, and summer 2010 i was able to go with a school group. i didn’t really know anyone in my group and most of them were already friends. but, i went into the expedition living only for myself. i was going to tanzania to live my dream that i had been working for for years. i didn’t care about anyone else. it was about me and the experience i was going to have. not to pull a tyra banks here and talk about great things i have done and everyone else hsould do, but really this is somethign i realized is important.
- work hard play hard. always.
- love your family the way it is. treat them with love and respect and kindness and understanding. accept their flaws, address them in your own life, and then move on.
- be nice to strangers and smile a lot
- seriously just smile all the time
- believe in something. god, gods, spirits, trees, anything really. i guess this could come across as offensive to atheists, but it really makes life so much more rewarding and meaningful if you have a mroe existential feeling towards the world.
okay that’s really all i have but thank you so much for asking!! i’m so flattered!! good luck in your life xoxo sorry i wrote a novel… also sorry some of what i said doesn’t make much sense probably i just took some nyquil…
