- Call your parents. Cry because you don’t call more.
- Make new friends. Have a falling out with all of them.
- Set a reminder in your phone to make a dentist appointment. Ignore it for three years.
- Stalk your ex’s fiancé on social media. Jealously send screenshots to your best friend, who assures you that you’re prettier.
- Gain weight in your midsection. Wonder if you will ever look the way you did at 16 again.
- Figure out the difference between alone and lonely.
- Cry over losing a childhood pet. Cry harder because you weren’t there when it happened.
- Feel guilty for loving your new dog.
- Get invited to a night club. Learn you’re actually more of a homebody.
- Compare yourself to a photo of when you thought you were happy. Realize how lost you are.
- Call your best friend. Use any excuse you can for the phone call. Finally admit you miss them.
- Break a sentimental wine glass. Understand why your mom saved fancy things for special occasions.
- Feel like you’ve wasted so much time. Make a list of things you want to accomplish. Watch it collect dust.
- Pride yourself on being the shoulder to cry on.
- Ask God for a favor. Try to remember the last time you prayed for anything selfless.
- Realize how hard it is to make friends after high school. Question if there’s something wrong with you.
- Make a bumble account. Deactivate it. Activate it. Deactivate it, again.
- Go on a blind date.
- Buy your first home. Fill it with a few pets and colorful decor.
- Cry yourself to sleep.
- Quit your job. Make a drastic career change. Hope that everyone who told you not to is wrong.
- Smile at a baby at the grocery store and watch her give you a toothless grin in return. Pray that parenthood is in the cards for you.
- Make a new group of friends. Only one becomes family.
- Find a new love for flowers.
- Start an expensive hobby. Get busy and forget about it.
- Move back to your hometown and miss the new friends you made, the ones who finally made you feel like you belong.
- Scroll through photos of your high school boyfriend’s new family. Hope that they’re really happy. Smile to yourself because you actually mean it.
- Buy a new pair of jeans. Surprise yourself by how good it feels to not squeeze into a pair that doesn’t fit anymore.
- Notice how much the face staring back at you in the mirror has changed. Try to figure out where the time has gone.
- Overthink every time you hang out with the friend you always say too much to.
- Find a way to laugh at yourself.
- Hear that someone you thought was a friend doesn’t care for your loud, happy and energetic personality. Try to listen to everyone who reassures you that you’re a likable person.
- Write down the first time you meant it when you called yourself beautiful. Return to it every time you catch yourself feeling unloved.
- Fall in love with reading again.
- Try to change a few insecurities. Question halfway through if you’re doing it for you, or them.
- Drink a bottle and a half of wine. Make it a one time thing.
- Reconnect with a few childhood friends. Swear you will be better about keeping in touch.
- Donate a few shirts that you’ve been holding onto for too long. Find ones that fit your body and your personality better.
- Sell your first home. Still picture your future family living in it.
- Wake up one day and find yourself obsessed with how loving and intense you are. It suddenly feels impossible that someone ever made you feel ashamed of who you are.
- Accept that life is full of ups and downs.
- Spend thousands of dollars in veterinarian bills.
- Contemplate how you ever lived your life without the people who are currently in it. Thank God for them daily. Ask if you can keep them forever.
- Catch yourself telling others that it’s going to be okay. Because you’ve been there, and it was okay.
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