Well, the countdown to the apocalypse has officially begun, so I figured I'd do an end of the year post before I transform into particles of nothingness. Some of these items will contradict, but guess what, I don't care because LIFE is contradictory.
I am going to add more as I reflect on the year...
1. Treat others as they treat you.
None of this golden rule bulsh**. We are not children anymore, and it is delusional to think that everyone has good intentions. Some people are motivated by poison and will eat away at your conscience, slowly but surely. There is no moral obligation to be nice to people who don't deserve it. Know when to be fierce, and know when to be indifferent. And when dealing with poison, walk away - walk away for good before you are infected. Poison is contagious.
2. Living alone is more complex than it seems.
I'm not talking about the struggle to balance university, a job, and the countless amount of house chores. I'm talking about something that is only felt when alone. It is only when we're alone that we learn who we are; when no one is watching and you're entitled to your freedom; to think, to act, to grow, to question, to say, to feel, to reflect. You learn who you are when no one is around, because you're not performing a social role that is deemed appropriate in any given setting of people. This makes your actions and choices genuine, therefore they are a clearer reflection of who you are as a person.
3. Your intuition knows the answer to everything.
You just disregard its red flags, because somewhere and somehow, there is an ounce of hope left in you that life will do a total 180 and maybe, just maybe, your intuition is wrong. But you and I both know that we know the answer to the question that keeps reproducing itself at the core of our very conscience.
4. Sometimes it is better to be feared than it is to be loved.
Love is fantastic and insane and indescribable, but more often than not, it is responsible for the weakness we face in vulnerable times. I hope that you fall in love at least three times, but never gamble away your dignity and know when to wear your poker face. Both good people and bad people can pick up on signs of weakness to feed off of - do not consume so much of it that love becomes the end of you.
5. Opinions are enormous nothings.
Do not succumb to pressure from others. You are perfectly capable of making decisions - who is anyone to tell you how you should live your life? Everything is temporary. If something makes you happy, then f*** the sweet nothings that are whispered in your ear time and time again - opinions don't mean anything but personal projections of what life should be. Same concept with advice - stop asking for advice; you already know the answer.
6. Education does not equal wisdom.
Knowledge is power, but knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is abstract and intangible and it is earned through a combination of adversity and delving into the mind of another with nothing but pure empathy. It is also ever-changing and can never be pursued as a fixed quality, because wisdom has no limit; therefore wisdom never stops learning, empathizing, or exploring. Perhaps it follows that wisdom does not exist as a quality.
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