#26

26. Pave your own path. Write your own book. Share these ideas with everyone and advise them to do the same. You can't spend this time before college checking off a list. Do things for the memory, not because you wrote them down. Live fast and die young. Be wild and have fun. Leave no stone upturned and no door closed because these will be the best years of your life. Don't stop here. Live your life this way. Be the best person you can be. Feel love and heartbreak, anger and excitement. Rely on others but be independent. Every day is a new adventure, so grasp it. Open every book and look around every corner. You'll never look like this or move like this or think like this again. Love it or hate every second but feel. Feel every thing.

Live Life While You Can

19. Fall in love. Fall in love with people and ideas. Let them fill your thoughts all day everyday. These moments will fade but it's nice to hold on to them while you can.

20. Discover new locations. Explore tunnels and bridges. Find your own spot.

21. Take risks. Eat a new type of food and tell someone how you feel about them. Make your heart explode and your mind race.

22. Dance in the rain. Take that one friend who's just as crazy as you and make fools out of yourselves. Anyone who thinks that sunshine is pure happiness has never danced in the rain.

23. Write yourself a letter to open in ten years. Realize how you have changed and even what has stayed the same. What you promised yourself you would do and if ever did it.

24. Sleep under the stars. Just look at the stars. There the same stars as last week, last year, same as when we were kids. When we weren't even born. In a hundred years no one will ever know who we are, but they'll know those same stars.'

25. Seek Adventure. Never think you've lived life to its fullest if you've lived in the same place your whole life. Move. Travel. Compare different places, accents, cultures, people. It changes you. It's easy to stay with the ones you've always been with but those kind of lives lack adventure

Don't Wait. There Will Never Be A Perfect Time.

14. Embrace your inner child. Growing up is boring. Eat ice cream cones and go to the park. Tell someone you "like like" them. Sleep with a stuffed animal and eat microwave dinners on Saturday nights. Watch cartoons and don't be afraid to look like a fool. Never let your imagination cease. There's plenty of time to be an adult later, but you can only be a child for so long.

15. Have your heart broken. Give everything you have to one person and watch them throw it away. Lose yourself in their eyes and tell them you love them. Watch them break you to the point where you don't think you'll ever recover. Cry your eyes out. Find shelter in a friend. Get mad. Run down the street with tears stinging your eyes  screaming at the top of your lungs. Allow it to hurt. Become so depressed to the point where life seems pointless. But recover. It will only make you stronger.

15. Start writing. Write everything. Your feelings and thoughts. You'll look back on these journals and remember. You'll see the smudges and the creases how your handwriting flows when you're happy and sharpens when you're mad. Even the tiniest details will flood  your mind with images in the future. Trust me you will be grateful.

16. Keep in touch. Call up old friends from elementary school. Get together and go on a picnic. Tell them about your life and reconnect. Some of the most influential people in your life ate the ones you might have to let go.

17. Improve your talents. Find something you're passionate about and practice it. Share it with everyone.

18. Travel. Go as far and wide as you can. never pass up the opportunity to go somewhere new. Your idea of globalization will change and that's something you're going to want to experience.