Lessons from my Life

Lessons from my Life

1) If you're great at making friends but not at keeping them, that's completely fine. Remember to always leave the people you meet with the most beautiful parts of you. When you become someone's jar of fireflies on a cold, hopeless night, their goodwill and love will always find its way back to you.

2) Write letters without taking names. Don't address it to anyone or sign off at the end; for once make the message more important than the people in it. Send them to people you love and ones you want to. On some days when the world seems unfair, you'll have a stack of nameless letters next to you, and when you read them, you'll feel like every single one is addressed to you, just to remind you how much you are capable of.

3) Always be grateful. To people, to experiences, to random acts of kindness. Never forget a kind word, never forget to say a few from time to time too.

4) Never let attention change you. No matter how much or how little you get of it, remind yourself that you're far more than a label or a tag the world tries to stamp you with.

5) The hardest thing in the world isn't chasing your dreams, it is far tougher to earn your right to keep them. Be paranoid about keeping what you love, whether it's your job, the people close to you or anything else. Lose sleep over it. Let it consume and fuel what you do at the same time. You'll find that your life's far more meaningful that way.

6) If you do art, do it well. There is nothing sadder than half-written letters or incomplete poems; wasted potential is a hollow, regretful feeling. When you write or create something, it becomes a reflection of you. You don't want the world to see you as a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces, do you?