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Lessons From Someone Who Is Still Learning

A few things I've learned in life.

Feb 22, 2016

Lessons From Someone Who Is Still Learning

While everyone around us seems to look like they have the world figured out, absolutely no one does. As someone who is about to enter their final year of college, the world is spinning at a fearsome pace under my frozen strides. I am right there with the rest of the lost children searching for the star to find Neverland. I feel if people shared their own mistakes or lessons, we could slowly figure it all out together. So, here are a few things I have learned in my 20 years of existence. Hopefully, you can gain some perspective.

There are a lot of things people care about that have no reason to be on the forefront of anyone’s mind. I can not stress enough how much easier it is to go through life when you stop caring about things that will have no effect on you in the long run. With that, if you truly did not care about something, you wouldn't go out of your way to point out your lack of caring. Just really consider the magnitude of what it is you’re stressed over in the grand scheme of things.
Negative people have no place in your life. This is a hard lesson to learn because it is hard to point out a negative person. Either way, people who bring you down and don’t make you want to be the best version of yourself should not have a part in your life. While you think their negative energy will not keep you down, it slowly makes you crumble into a state of zero positivity, and from personal experience, it is hard to dig yourself out of that hole.
There is nothing a few nights with good people can’t fix. No matter how broken your heart is or how bad you messed something up, spending a few nights with people who are there for you will take the sting away. In the moment, you will feel like you can't heal, but the people who will hold your hand while you cry are the people who will help hold your heart while it is putting itself back together.
Before you become a pile of cynicism, believe there is good in everyone. It will help you find people who actually have good in their soul. Not fake good, but genuine, refreshing goodness. And don’t squash those people, either; there is not enough of them in the world to ruin the few there are. In life, there are lessons to be learned every day, but sometimes, the lessons can be made easier knowing someone else has gone through them, too.

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