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19 Things I've Learned By Age 19

Only one more year until 20?

Abigail Sannizzaro

Mar 20, 2017

Bryant University

Abby Sannizzaro

There are a lot of lessons I've learned over the past nineteen years, but these are some of the most important:

1. Keep a journal

Keeping a journal may sound silly or childish, but it is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Getting out bottled up emotions is easily done through writing down your thoughts. The best journals are the kinds you kept when you were really young - those you can read and laugh about now!

2. Don't be so hard on yourself

It’s easy to blame yourself for every little thing. But if you don’t mess up occasionally, how do you ever learn? Don’t take yourself too seriously, it is not always your fault.

3. Just wait and see

You can’t plan everything, and a lot of the time, the things that happen unexpectedly are the most special.

4. Talk to your family

These are some of the most important people in your life. Treat them like that. They’ll always be there for you, so talk to them and share with them.

5. Tell the people you love just how much you love them

You shouldn’t ever be afraid to be vulnerable. Make sure the people you love know how much you love and care for them.

6. Laugh obnoxiously loud

Honestly, turning heads because you’re laughing with your friends is kind of fun. Never apologize for being happy.

7. Take risks

Do all the things in life that scare you.

8. Travel when you get the opportunity

See the world and meet all the people you can. You can learn a lot from other people and gain new perspectives.

9. Be a try hard

Trying hard in what you care about is not a bad thing. Unless you’re one of those people that treats high school gym like your training for the Olympics. Then you might want to cool it.

10. But know when to not be a try hard

See the second half of part nine!

11. Tell people how you feel

Always and truthfully.

12. Always be there for your friends

These are people you chose to have in your life. Make sure you are there for them like they have been for you.

13. Realize the friends who are not there for you

You don’t need people in your life that consistently let you down.

14. Do what you love

Don’t waste your time doing things that won’t make you happy. It’s not worth it.

15. Take time for yourself

It’s okay to need time to recharge your mind and relax.

16. Try new food

What’s the worst that can happen, you don’t like it?

17. You will lose someone you love

And this will break your heart, but there is no way around it. Just know how lucky you are to have loved someone enough that it could possibly hurt this bad to see them go.

18. Sing really loud when you know the words to a song...or even when you don't

Singing is honestly the best.

19. Life is going to move really fast, and time moves quick when you’re spending it with the right people

Find those right people, and don’t let them go.

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The struggles of having an RBF are all too real

1. People asking if you're mad at them.

2. Those people who hand out flyers don't always try to stop you.

3. Creepy guys telling you to smile.

4. "I thought you were a bitch when I first met you."

5. People telling you you'd be "so much prettier if you smiled."

6. Doing your makeup and looking great, which somehow intensifies the bitch face.

7. Regularly explaining "it's just my face."

We all go through certain stages when we have a crush, Tina just explains it better.

That moment that someone you never looked twice at suddenly makes you do a double take out of no where.

But you can't have a crush, that's outrageous. It's all in your head.

Because you don't have a crush, there's no reason to tell anyone about anything. Right?

But then they do something irresistible and you start to lose it.

Now accepting the fact you have a crush, you have to keep it under control.

Then there's the part where you tell your friends who will claim they called it.

They'll be excited and cheer you on. That's until they realize that your crush is all you'll be talking about.

Your obsession has become so bad, that your Facebook stalking is getting out of control.

But your friends will try and help move things along any way they can. That doesn't mean it will be any helpful though.

As time goes on, you start having fantasies about the two of you and it's starting to scare you a little.

You can't focus on anything because all your attention is on them and everything they do.

Anybody who comes near your crush is now an enemy, and you are willing to fight for your crush.

When you see them, you act like an idiot. Trying to hide your feelings may not be as discrete as you think.

Keeping your feelings inside will start to be harder and harder until you can't keep it inside anymore.

Who knows, maybe it will work out? Take a chance.

Everybody hurts sometimes.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

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4. You may feel a little down sometimes.

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10. You continue to grow.

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