1. Unless that still small voice inside is telling me I’m the reincarnation of Eleanor of Aquitaine, I can trust it knows more than any of my big, loud voices.
2. My life has been one long cycle of remembering and forgetting. Remembering our time here is fleeting, forgetting the same. I remembered to remember a little more this year and ended up eating a bit more chocolate than is probably healthy, but I also lived and loved a little more deeply.
3. Whatever we’re not willing to confront, controls us. The more monsters I wrestle out from under my bed, the better I sleep.
4. If we’re lucky enough to make it to adulthood, none of us will leave this earth without a good-old-fashioned-back-breaking-slip on a banana peel, a major heartbreak, and an unbearable loss. The question is not whether we will have to withstand these things, but rather, will we have to do it alone? It is the doing it alone that is truly unbearable … Real Friendship Is Everything.
5. I no longer have time to be in a hurry.
