Hey everyone. So as you all know my birthday is coming up really soon, THIS WEEK ACTUALLY OMGGG, and this birthday is a special one. I’m turning 20!!!! Can you believe that. Because I can’t. I still feel like a ten year old. I mean I still love high school musical and girls aloud and cheese puffs so I’m not far off to be fair. But as this birthday looms it means the start of a new decade and a new chapter in my life and I’m so bloody excited for it. Everyone says your 20’s are a crazy and wild ride and I’m so excited to start the ride and see what happens in this next decade. But I’m mainly excited to leave my teens behind because honestly it hasn’t been the nicest chapter of my life… school days ARE NOT THE BEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. Parents you fucking lied to me. But I’ll come to that another time because I have many feelings about my teen years that I wanna talk about and reflect on. Anyway I thought I would share this post as a little reflection of what I have learned about life so far even though I am still so young. So here are my 20 things that I’ve learned in 20 years. Some personal, very personal, and some quite meaningful too. As well as random crap because we all know I cant take anything seriously. 1. Music will always be a crucial part of my life. Earphones in, World off. 2. You have to choose wisely when you are choosing who you want in your life and who you open up to. 3. I am very good at binge watching TV shows. 4. I will always be a foodie because food > life and snacks solve all the world’s problems. Salted Pretzel chocolate from Aldi I am talking to you here... 5. If something is affecting you in a negative way you have to remove it asap. Whether it is a something or a someone, even family. No exceptions. Your happiness comes first. 6. You can’t be scared of what other people think of you. If they do talk about you it’s because you’re doing something cool and they have a reason to talk about you. It’s outright jealousy and the issue is with them and not with you. 7. It took me nearly dying and wanting to end my life to really want to start living life to the full again. I wasted too much time hating on myself. But thankfully now I am in the happiest place I’ve ever been with myself. Loving myself and having good mental health is essential to being happy. I learnt this the hard way and it’s been a long journey. But recovery and healing IS possible. 8. Distance or age in friendship means absolutely nothing. If the friendship is strong and real, distance and time between seeing each other or how old you are won’t matter. My best friends now don’t really live anywhere near me but that doesn’t change how much I love them or how much they mean to me. It just makes it even more special when we do see each other or meet for the first time. I also have friends that are not my age and I love them to pieces. Oh and also: Internet Friends are REAL FRIENDS and that’s that. In fact, often better friends… oooof. Yeah I said it. 9. If you’re doing something that others don’t understand or is alien to others that doesn’t mean it’s wrong or not cool, it just means you’re different. Keep doing you boo. Don’t stop and follow the crowd instead. 10. Experiences > material things. Always. 11. Kids can be just as cruel as grown ups. Sometimes. People suck. Generally. 12. Being chronically ill doesn’t have to define you and it doesn’t have to stop you doing ANYTHING. 13. You have to say fuck it sometimes and just do something. Whether it be going on a night out, buying something, booking a flight or doing something spontaneous that’s out of your comfort zone. 14. Hangovers are shite and I still haven’t learned when to stop drinking. 15. You can’t please everyone and not everyone will like you. That’s fine. You do you boo. 16. Life is too short, so say I love you to the people you care about as often as you can and be present with your loved ones. 17. Embrace the good days and the good times because you never know when it’s gonna change. 18. I like men. I like women too. I’m bisexual. Hello. :)))) 19. If you don’t ask you don’t get. And that goes for anything in life. The worst thing that can happen is being told no. And then you try again. 20. I can be perfectly happy on my own. I am fiercely independent and I think I always will be now. I have myself and I love myself and that’s all that matters now. I don't necessarily need others to make me happy, I can make my own happiness. Being single is bloody good fun. And there we have it. In this mess that is life that’s what I’ve gathered from it right now. I’m sure I’ll learn so much more in the next 10 years. If I am still blogging when I turn 30, wow that sounds well old right now loooool, it’ll be interesting to look back on this and see what’s changed. I also hope you noticed the little announcement that’s in there too. Please be nice. I've had this announcement planned for months, I've been waiting for the right time to share it and starting a new decade felt like the right time to do it. It’s scary to reveal something like that to the world. But it’s who I am and it’s not gonna change and that’s it. The real ones won’t care. I hope you enjoyed that and enjoyed getting an insight into my thoughts and feelings a bit. Thank you for reading if you got this far, it means the world. But for now I’ll say bye and I’ll see you all soon for a new post. Love Jade xxx Comments are closed.
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