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To The Girl Who Thinks Too Much, I Dare You To Live

There are songs you haven't sung and people you haven't kissed and memories that are waiting for you.

Lana Cho

Feb 07, 2018

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To The Girl Who Thinks Too Much, I Dare You To Live

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As I cozied up in the booth of a dimly-lit restaurant across from my new girlfriends, I was suffused with warmth and happiness and the realization that this is what it's all about. Jazz music and genuine conversations and laughter that makes you throw your head back in joy. The moments that fuel your soul.

I have an impressive track record of being unable to let go and enjoy the moment in front of me. I couldn't believe what I had been missing this whole time. There was so much life and beauty and happiness that I had let slip past me because I was too preoccupied with stress and heartbreak and the things that have no right to take over our lives.

So here's to living.

I dare you to go out after a long week and flirt with that stranger from across the room and dance until you feel nothing but sheer bliss, even though your heart's still sore from the boy who didn't text you back.

I dare you to wake up early on a Sunday morning and put on your sundress and laugh over sunshine and mimosas with your girlfriends, even though you've got too much on your plate and the dread of that seven-page paper you have to write for your least favorite class has been following you around all weekend.

I dare you to grab your jacket at five in the morning and sneak up to the roof of the tallest building on your campus and watch the sunrise, even though the thought of heights scares you and you could probably use the sleep and the very thought of leaving your room once gave you a panic attack.

I dare you to go out and live, even though you always have too much on your mind to be fully present, and you're always expecting the worst, and you tragically believe at your young age that happiness never lasts.

I dare you to live because there are songs you haven't sung in the car and people you haven't kissed and memories that are waiting for you.

I dare you to live because this world will not love you until you start to love it.

I dare you to live because you deserve to.

So here's to living. Here's to being here, in the moment, and being alive.

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"Uh? Eating? Am I Eating? Yeah..."

"Oh, yeah. I've been eating super healthy"

"Sorry, I can't talk! I'm studying!"

"I aced my final! No worries!"

"My grades? Uh..my professor hasn't updated them in awhile.."

"Everyone failed that test. Not just me!"

"I go to class literally every day. I'm NEVER late"

"I really try to just spend money on necessities.."

"No, I didn't call just to ask for money.."

"I'm feeling really motivated about the coming semester.."

"I'm really right on track to graduate"

I'll be there for you.

1. MONICA: Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You’re gonna love it!

2. JOEY: You can’t just give up! Is that what a dinosaur would do?

3. JOEY: Here come the meat sweats.

4. WILL: We started a rumor.

RACHEL: What rumor?

PHOEBE: Oh, come on Will! Just take off your shirt and tell us!

5. ROSS: Wow, you guys sure have a lot of books about being a lesbian.

SUSAN: Well, you know, you have to take a course. Otherwise, they don’t let you do it.

6. PHOEBE: Come on Ross, you’re a paleontologist. Dig a little deeper.

7. JANICE: OH… MY… GOD!!!!

8. CHANDLER: WHOOPAH

9. JOEY: Well, I’m sorry if I’m not a middle-aged black woman. And I’m also sorry if sometimes I go to the wrong audition.

10. JOEY: Hey, Ross, I got a science question: If the homo sapiens were, in fact, HOMO sapiens… is that why they’re extinct?

ROSS: Joey, homo sapiens are people.

JOEY: Hey, I’m not judgin’!

11. PHOEBE: If it’s a girl, Phoebe. And if it’s a boy, Pheebo.

12. CHANDLER: Hold on, there’s something different.

ROSS: I went to that tanning place your wife suggested.

CHANDLER: Was that place the sun?

13. JANICE: 15 Yemen Road, Yemen.

14. JOEY: Paper… Snow… It’s a ghost!

15. JOEY: Is it obvious I’m wearing six sweaters?

16. PHOEBE: THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION!

17. JOEY: What’s not to like? Custard? Good. Jam? Good. Meat? GOOD.

18. JOEY: It’s a moo point. It’s like a cow’s opinion. It doesn’t matter. It’s moo.

19. PHOEBE: Oh I wish I could, but I don’t want to.

20. CHANDLER: Condoms?

JOEY: We don’t know how long we’re gonna be stuck in here. We might have to repopulate the world.

CHANDLER: And CONDOMS are the way to do that?

21. ROSS: PI-VOT! PI-VOT! PI-VOT!

22. JOEY: Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

23. PHOEBE: Je m’appelle Claude.

JOEY: Jet aplee blooo.

24. CHANDLER: I’m not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?

25. JOEY: JOEY DOESN’T SHARE FOOD.

26. JOEY: I swear to god, Dad. That’s not how they measure pants!

27. ROSS: You could not be any more wrong. You could try, but you would not be successful.

28. ROSS: So, uh, what did the insurance company say?

CHANDLER: Oh, they said uh, “You don’t have insurance here so stop calling us.”

29. CHANDLER: Gum would be perfection.

30. JOEY: Look at me! I’m Chandler! Could I BE wearing any more clothes?

31. MONICA: My motto is get out before they go down.

JOEY: That is so not my motto.

32. RACHEL: Oh are you setting Ross up with someone? Does she have a wedding dress?

33. RACHEL: Hey, just so you know it’s NOT that common, it DOESN’T happen to every guy and it IS a big deal!

34. JOEY: How you doin’?

35. JOEY: That’s right, I stepped up! She’s my friend and she needed help. If I had to, I’d pee on any one of you!

36. MONICA: Fine! Judge all you want but married a lesbian, left a man at the altar, fell in love with a gay ice dancer, threw a girl’s wooden leg in the fire, LIVES IN A BOX.

37. RACHEL: Go tell him he’s cute. What’s the worst that could happen?

MONICA: He could hear me.

38. PHOEBE: But they don’t know that we know they know we know!

39. PHOEBE: Smelly cat, smel-ly cat, what are they feeding you? Smelly cat, smel-ly cat, it’s not your fault.

40. JOEY: Suppose we’re a divorced couple.

CHANDLER: Okay.

JOEY: And I got custody of the kid, right? Now, suppose the kid dies and I gotta buy a new kid.

41. JOEY: Oh, sorry. Did I get ya?

CHANDLER: No, you didn’t get me! It’s an electric drill. You get me, you kill me!

42. ROSS: WE WERE ON A BREAK!

43. RACHEL: He’s a transponster!

44. MONICA: SEVEN! SEVEN! SEVEN! SEVEN!

45. MONICA: You were my midnight mystery kisser?

ROSS: You were my first kiss with Rachel?

MONICA: You were my first kiss EVER?!

CHANDLER: What did I marry into?

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