💐 10 Unsolicited Rules To Live By 💐
💐 10 Unsolicited Rules To Live By 💐
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Love to be back landing in your inboxes on a weekend! A true joy! I hope you’re sipping coffee/making out with someone cute/LOVING being solo/slowly waking up from a hot fun night, or, you know what, just like, unwinding in your little life the best way you can right now.
This week I’m bringing you a list of rules to live by! Not that you asked (unsolicited, lol), but I think you’re gonna love it, and, as always, I wanna hear what you have to say in the comments.
If this was the final sequence in the movie of my life, and the supporting character came to me on my dying days asking me what I wish I knew when I was starting out in my 20s, this would be it.
Ten unsolicited rules to live by
1. Treat friendships with the same amount of energy as romantic relationships
Friendships are the family we choose. They’re the energy we inject into our lives. The bones we build around us. They’re how we feel less alone in the world and how we see ourselves reflected back at us. Treat them that way. Remember their birthdays. Write them notes. Drunk text them funny shit. Don’t be afraid to call on them when you need them. They will change just as much as you will and not always be around forever, but for those windows in time (large or small), they can bring you just as much attention, sense-making and affection as romantic relationships can. Loving people is a verb. Treat it as such.
2. Freedom is the best feeling you can chase
The best moments of your life will not come from the manicured, perfected, sweated-over slivers of time in the limelight. They happen in the green rooms, the side moments, the in-between, hair-falling-out-of-its-bobby-pins, barefooted, spontaneous spirited frivolous times you didn’t plan for or couldn’t reconstruct if you tried. Chase those. Know how fleetingly they arrive. Know they won’t last forever. Know they will come back. Know you’re lucky to feel them when you do.
3. Resolution only come from yourself
Things will disappoint you. People will disappoint you. You will disappoint you. This is inevitable. But what isn’t is how you deal with it. You can drive yourself wild with anxiety trying to control other people’s reactions and responses to things. You can wind down the window and scream at the apartment block of someone who hurt you all you like. But at the end of the day, making peace with things that have happened is a destination only you can arrive at. And once you do — you are set free (see note above).
4. Generosity will change your life