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This will be super lame, but I don't even care :)

I know that a lot of people are stressed out with school & stuff right now, so I wanted to write something that would maybe make things a little easier :) So here is a short little list of super amazing things that are happening right now that we should all try to remember when we're feeling a little crappy. Life is too amazing to spend all of our time being stressed. A smile is the most beautiful curve on our bodies, so go show it off :)

Right now, a surgeon is in the middle of literally cutting a person open & saving their life - wow:) A cancer patient just found out that he is in remission. Somebody is smiling because of a memory with you. Somebody just put their extra change in the charity jar at a grocery store. A soldier is out fighting so you don't have to. Somebody who suffered a severe injury last year is back up on their feet & walking. A friend is helping a friend rise above her suicidal thoughts. Hundreds of cute, old couples are celebrating their 50th anniversarys together :) A future world leader is playing on the slides at recess. A little girl just took her first few steps without falling. A new mom is holding her baby in her arms for the first time. Someone is singing in the shower at the top of their lungs :) A firefighter is running into a building to save a complete stranger. An alcoholic is celebrating one year of sobriety. There's somebody in another part of the world studying their butt off, so they can maybe someday be in the position that you are in right now. Somebody is laughing so hard that they can't even breathe.

Think of all the simple pleasures that get overlooked every single day.. Accidently hearing somebody say something nice about you. Random good hair days. Dropping something & grabbing it before it hits the ground :) When questions on your exams give you the answers for questions on the next page. Being next in line. When the song on the radio ends right when you park. Accidently saying something that rhymes. Hitting all green lights. Finding money in your jeans pocket.

I know it's super cheesy, but I think we could all use being reminded of how lucky we are sometimes. Things suck sometimes. School & work get to be way too much. But hey, life isn't easy. There's a lot that we have no control over, you're going to fail at a lot of things before you figure out where you belong. You won't always get what you want, not everybody will like you, and you're going to have a lot of really really sucky days. Somebody will always have it "better" than you. But at the same time, somebody is always going to have it worse. In the end, things always work out the way they were supposed to.

So I guess all I wanted to was to remind everybody of how lucky we actually are, even when we don't always feel like it. And if you feel like you're just really stressed & have no idea what you're doing anymore, if there was ever a moment to follow your passion & do something that matters to you, do it now. Do what makes you happy. Make sure you take plenty of time for yourself & really figure out where your priorities are. Life is way too short to keep putting things off until later. Take advantage of being young & having the amazing opportunites life is handing you right now. Theres no such thing as "risk free". Everything you do, & everything you don't do, comes with some kind of risk. Remember that you have so many people who really value your friendship, & that you might have made a bigger difference in somebody's life than you realized :)

"If you want love, give love. If you want friends, be friendly. If you want money, provide value. It really is this simple."