Growing up in 2013

Everyone and their mom is about to do some post about all the things that 2013 taught them. Well since I don’t want to miss out on the trend, I am going to spend my last post of this year talking about all the things I learned in 2013. YAY! I need you to control you excitement about the wisdom I am about to instill in you. Now some of what I learned is going to sound like a repeat of a blog post I have already made (since this is a yearend summary) so just suck it up and read it again. Or don’t, see if I care! It is going to be lessons I learned from others as well as the lessons I have learned through my own experience of living and breathing and stuff. So without further ado, here is the lessons 2013 has taught me:

1)      Miley Cyrus taught me that if you want to swing around naked on a wrecking ball while licking a sledgehammer you can because you are your OWN person and allowed to do what YOU want. She also taught me how enticing swinging around on a wrecking ball (clothing optional) can be! It is something to put on my bucket list I never considered before! No, in all seriousness Miley did teach me that when you are young you are going to do things that other people are going to frown upon. People are going to criticize you and say hurtful things about you, but you just have to stick your tongue out to the haters. It is okay to make mistakes when you are young and still trying to find “you”! It is okay to do things other people do not like as long as you stand by your decisions and don’t cave to the pressure of society.

2)      I went to Europe this year and it taught me that one sure way to help discover more about yourself is to travel. To experience things you never have before and probably never will again. It will open your eyes to a whole new perspective on life. I learned to appreciate the things I take for granted everyday but I also learned to appreciate other’s perspective of the world. I have this attitude that America is the greatest and everyone wants to be us! Well I mean yeah we are the greatest but there are some other pretty amazing places and people out there as well. People who can teach me more than I ever could have learned otherwise. I want to see all there is to see. I want to meet as many people as possible.

3)      I watch the television show FRIENDS every night before I go to bed and this year I finally learned the lesson it had been trying to teach me all along; As you get older your friends become your family. They become the people who support you in your decisions even when you have lost your ever loving mind. Yeah having friends who are there any time you want to go out and get crazy are awesome, but having friends who are there when your life gets crazy are THE BEST! No, for real the best. I have learned that I am truly bless with the friends I have in my life. I am now looking at the friends I have to make sure they are worth keeping, if not then I will have to tell them, “You are the weakest link, goodbye!” No more friends who like to pick out all my flaws and make fun of them but ones that have my back and will risk going to jail because I have murdered the little skanks that keep kissing my boyfriend Zac Efron! No more dulling my shine Biatches! You better be here to make me sparkle or you are out!

4)      I have discovered my calling is life is to be Ellen Degeneres’ understudy.  I mean I can dance, I know a lot of corny jokes, I love to talk to people, and let’s face it I’m hilarious. Now I have tried and failed to get in touch with Ellen. For some reason she is choosing to ignore me. I take this as a sign she wants to see how persistent I can be and well I will not give up! Or maybe I am on her list of crazed fans and she has a restraining order against me. Well Ellen if you are reading this, I’m still ready to come work for you. Anytime, really. Anytime at all. Just call me.

5)      If for some reason this whole Ellen thing does not pan out, I have decided upon another career I think will make me happy. When I started school a million years ago I was going to be a doctor and be all Grey’s Anatomy cool. Well that requires you to be like really smart which sadly is something I am not. I changed my mind a few times, graduated and took something us in the real world like to call a “big kid” job (barf). I have realized this is not the type of career I want for my life forever so I am changing my mind again. I can do that, ya know. I can change my mind as many times as I want. I can try something else. I learned that this year. I thought once I graduated I was stuck with whatever career I wanted. It was too late for me. Well boy was I wrong! I can change my mind as many times as I want. Life is bound to be full of a few U-Turns, dead ends and windy roads.

6)      I think the hardest part of like is straight from a Taylor Swift song. The lyrics go, “Oh, I’m just a girl trying to find a place in this world.” Who knew when T-Swizzle wrote about something other than the slew of men she dates, she could right such truth? This year has taught me I do not have it all figured out. I am still trying to find what it is that makes me, me.  It is not easy to do but that’s okay. Life is a journey. I should never stop trying to make myself the best version I can be. I do not have to have it all figured out at age 23. This year I realized that I am pretty freaking awesome! Like seriously, if you don’t know me then I feel bad for you. I rock. But I am still looking to be better and looking for a place in this world where I can truly shine.

7)      I have reached the age of marriage. It is that time in your life where your friends start getting hitched and if you don’t follow close behind you are destined to be an old cat lady. Well I don’t really like cats so maybe I can get dogs, or ducks, or a pig! I’ve always wanted a pig. Anyways. I am not knocking marriage. I am extremely happy for all my friends who have found that person they are destined to be with and ready to take that leap. All I am saying is I am not ready for that by any means. I have to know who I am and where I want to go first before I can give myself wholly to another person. I am not saying I don’t want a relationship. If somebody comes and sweeps me off my feet then I will embark on that journey. I am just not going to go looking for it. It will happen when it is supposed to happen and until then I am going to be happy single and working on myself. I will be happy dating and of course being COURTED!

8)      Some girl by the name of Jennifer Lawrence came onto the scene this year and taught us all some very important things. Like first she taught us that people named Jennifer who come from Louisville are totally kick-ass. Besides that she has taught me to be comfortable in my own skin. Society and other people are always going to have something to say about your appearance but “SCREW THEM”. You HAVE to be comfortable in your own skin no matter what anyone else says. If you are like me and have no curves (besides my Beyoncé butt) then you are too thin and a bean pole and need to eat more. If you have curves then you are too fat and need to go on a diet. Well you cannot win. There is no happy medium anymore. J-Law has taught me to be happy with who you are no matter what others have to say about it. Embrace your own skin and all its faults!

9)      This year has taught me that even though bad things happen there are still people who are truly good people. I have always been told I am too trusting of the world around me. That I am not away enough of the bad things that could happen to me. Well the way I see it is that they COULD happen, not that they WILL happen. I choose to focus on the good side. I choose to see that there is good in everyone and we just have to give people a chance to prove it. There are random acts of kindness every day. People that do these random acts for the sake of doing them and not for the praise or recognition. This is what I need to do more of in the next year. Random acts that make someone else smile. The warm fuzzy feeling that goes along with helping people should be what I work to accomplish. I declare 2014 the year of kindness!

10)  Okay, so here we are, the 10^th and final thing I learned this year. Are you ready? Are you sure?? The final thing I learned this year is that life is supposed to be FUN. Yeah sure sometimes you have to “act like a grown up and do grown up things” but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy them. If you have job that feels like a death eater is sucking the life out of you, quit and find something you like. It is not about money, it is about happiness. It is not about taking life so serious that you let all these little moments pass you by. When I leave this world I want to leave those around me memories of all the fun moments we had together. I do not want to leave them my “worldly possessions”. I want to leave them me. So stop, take a second and have some fun!