Things to remember

THANK YOU Brianna West for this:  

Personal high-lights:

1. If there’s anything we should sculpt ourselves considering, it’s that we will never actually know the truth about most things. 

3. We find the most happiness in the little intricacies of everyday life. In them will be the memories that we hold of people we lose, the most intense bits of joy, our day-to-day reason to be. Waiting for big change is fruitless, because when it comes, it will once more fade into an overarching backdrop that becomes nearly invisible to us. But the little things will remain.

5. Nobody is thinking about you as much as you are thinking about you. 

6. Being busy is an excuse.

9. Change is the culmination of alterations so small you barely recognize them. 

11. Blaming your unhappiness and dissatisfaction on anything other than your sheer lack of will to change is not only erroneous, but it cheats you out of yourself. 

15. You do not have a guaranteed life span of another 60+ years. Though it feels that way, and to be cheated out of such feels like an offense to you, it’s not. You don’t necessarily even have tomorrow, and you’ll realize this with crippling suddenness when you lose someone you also thought was also guaranteed the same.

19. There are no “beginnings” or “ends” in life. It’s a constantly flowing, evolving experience. There is no waiting period and acting period. You kid yourself by thinking that “you just have to get through X period of time before you can do this and that.” It puts off the reality that you can’t enjoy yourself now, and the truth is, if you don’t learn to find happiness now, you never will. You will always be waiting for the next “tomorrow.”

21. Your best bet is to spend your money on experiences, not things, though the latter is grippingly tempting.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2013/10/22-things-you-need-to-realize-while-you-still-have-the-chance-to-change-them/