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Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old,
of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:"
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9.. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry..
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.
Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
26. Always choose life.
27. Forgive everyone everything.
28. What other people think of you is none of your business.
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
32. Believe in miracles.
33. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do..
34. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
35. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
36. Your children get only one childhood.
37. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
38. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
39. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
40. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
41. The best is yet to come.
42. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
43. Yield.
44. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
No idea why is there only 44... But its still uplifting (:
Saw this on someone's blog:
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Before you can grow up, you must fall in love 3 times.
Once you must fall in love with your best friend, ruining your friendship forever.
This will teach you who your true friends are,
and the fine line between friendship and more.
Once you must fall in love with someone you believe to be perfect.
You will learn that no one is perfect,
and that you should never be treated as any less than you deserve.
And once you must fall in love with someone that is exactly like you.
This will teach you about who you are, and who you want to be.
And when you’re through with all that,
you learn that the people who care about you the most are the ones that you hurt,
and the ones that hurt you are the ones that you needed the most.
But most of all,
you learn that love is only a concept and is not something that can be defined,
it is different to each person that experiences it.
And you will learn to respect each and every person on this earth,
knowing that everyone only wants to be loved.
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Who I am and who I want to be.
Communication is a funny thing.
We never say the things we mean to.
And we sometimes dont mean the things we say.
And then there are the times where we mean what we say,
and yet people dont know what we mean.
And communicating upset feelings is the worst of it all.
I never imagined myself to be a person that sucks at communication.
I mean, we do it all the time right?
We girls talk and talk and talk.
And I am pretty sure people get what I am trying to say most of the time.
But I never had to really talk about being upset.
Whining and bitching and complaining aside,
ever tried talking about something that bugs you, to the person that bugged you?
It's freaking hard.
There's the pain that comes from what has been done.
There's the confusion that comes from how this person can be so different from you.
There's the anger that comes from wondering why the person did it.
And then there's the pride of not wanting to admit how something or someone can get to you so much.
And I can't deal with all these emotions and try to communicate them at the same time.
So I linger between being hostile and simply not saying anything at all.
Both of which don't really get me anything or anywhere.
Except more upset feelings and the cycle continues.
So weary.
