If you have a goal, its important to look up the steps to the goal so you know what you have to do to progress.
For example, picking a major to get to a desired career but failing to realize you need to make a portfolio of projects through college to get said job
If I seriously wanted to go to college, I was going to have to get a job and pay for the tuition on my own, which I did because my parents weren’t going to pay for it.
That my parents are just people, doing the best they could with what they had.
When my mom died a friend told me I am the woman in my life and it hit. I had to do things I didn’t previously know how to do and it’s ok.
I’ve realized the same thing. I guess because the decisions we make as we get older are more consequential, literally more expensive, have a bigger impact on everything else, and are much harder to come back from? I’ve seen it with myself with so many different things, it’s kind of depressing really. When I was younger, I could just roll with the punches or figure out what changes I needed to make to get back on track but nowadays it feels like one bad decision creates a cascade of negative effects touching all aspects of my life. Maybe I just get depressed much more easily nowadays or maybe my depression got worse with age.
My mum and stepdad were strict growing up because they love me and wanted to keep me safe. I should have listened to them more when I was younger. They were always right and if I had just listened to their concerns about my ex I wouldn’t have wound up living with my abuser for two and a half years. Oh and my dad IS in-fact the AH my mum warned me he was, he knew I was being beat and did not support me leaving and didn’t want me to “ruin his life” (ex’s) by going to the police.
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If you have a goal, its important to look up the steps to the goal so you know what you have to do to progress.
For example, picking a major to get to a desired career but failing to realize you need to make a portfolio of projects through college to get said job
You are your own hero
Nobody thinks about you as much as you think they do. Every one of us is too busy thinking about ourselves, our lives.
If you want something done right you have to do it yourself.
I can’t live for anyone but myself
If I seriously wanted to go to college, I was going to have to get a job and pay for the tuition on my own, which I did because my parents weren’t going to pay for it.
That my parents are just people, doing the best they could with what they had.
When my mom died a friend told me I am the woman in my life and it hit. I had to do things I didn’t previously know how to do and it’s ok.
I’ve realized the same thing. I guess because the decisions we make as we get older are more consequential, literally more expensive, have a bigger impact on everything else, and are much harder to come back from? I’ve seen it with myself with so many different things, it’s kind of depressing really. When I was younger, I could just roll with the punches or figure out what changes I needed to make to get back on track but nowadays it feels like one bad decision creates a cascade of negative effects touching all aspects of my life. Maybe I just get depressed much more easily nowadays or maybe my depression got worse with age.
I was wrong about everything, I may not like who raised me but I am thankful to them for keeping me alive, my teachers didn’t know better.
My mum and stepdad were strict growing up because they love me and wanted to keep me safe. I should have listened to them more when I was younger. They were always right and if I had just listened to their concerns about my ex I wouldn’t have wound up living with my abuser for two and a half years. Oh and my dad IS in-fact the AH my mum warned me he was, he knew I was being beat and did not support me leaving and didn’t want me to “ruin his life” (ex’s) by going to the police.
That parents don’t know everything, and life is a continuing lesson
As I get older, the days are getting shorter.
That you can educate the ignorant, medicate the crazy but you can’t fix stupid.
where you go to school matters less than the things you did while you were there
I hate being old….60 sucks
The more I learn and experience, the less I know.
How often married people fuck other people who aren’t their spouse
-Forgive but don’t forget.
“Shake your money maker.”
“Bet your bottom dollar.”
I’ve come to the realization that all the family and friends who cared about you as a child don’t care much at all after you turn 18.