Seventeen

17 lessons learned in my 17 years on this earth:
1: NEVER mistake lust for love.
2: Words matter, but so do ones actions.
3: You're worth more than your worst mistake.
4: Live free of the baggage of regrets, for they have made you grow.
5: TRAVEL. TRAVEL. TRAVEL.
6: Don't close your eyes to the beauty that surrounds.
7: Yea, people care; you're not alone.
8: The world is NOT going to stop spinning. Life goes on.
9: Please, for the love of all good, leave your toxic relationship behind.
10: Those 'low-low's' will balance out with the 'high-high's', don't you worry.
11: Write your own story.
12: NEVER mistake kindness for weakness.
13: You never know what actually goes on behind closed doors, despite what you've heard.
14: Take the time to appreciate how far you've come.
15: Embrace the change of tomorrow, for while it may not feel like much, day by day everything changes.
16: A deserving, desirable soul you are. Never forget it.
17: You're only 17. All these years have just been a taste to what comes next.

[ oh how life passes so fast, I can't believe I'm already seventeen ]