When achieving your dream becomes anxiety and failure becomes guilt, remember: it is okay to leave the pressure to find the passion.
2. You cannot force yourself to love that boy, even if he is perfect. It will only break his heart.
3. When the right boy enters your life, he will be far from perfection: a beautiful blonde mess even your band teacher labels a bad idea.
4. It is easy to be seduced by a picture-perfect image of success.
5. It is impossible to stay practical and balanced when falling in love. Ignore your motherβs advice and let yourself be swept away.
6. A high school diploma represents more than hard work and passing grades: in those four years, you grew into someone you can be proud of.
7. Treasure the present instead of waiting for the future.
8. Don't forget to be yourself even when you are changing.
9. Sometimes, you explode. Do not stop yourself from experience all the ugly emotions.
10. Never rush recovery.
11. Expectations don't always understand that healing takes time.
12. Trust this: you will be okay.
Life is the hardest thing to love though it is the worthiest. Even on those days when the sickness blinds you, life is beautiful. Even on those days when the temptation of kitchen knives and the pill bottle on the second shelf of your motherβs medicine cabinet pull you to pluck your pulse in perfect pizzacto, you must let life remind you: you are worth it.