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Life Lessons...By an 18 year old child.

1. SHARE THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE. Writing is a form of expression, more so than it is a talent shared from my mum to me. Imperfection is the key to success and being able to dream is the only way to live your life to the fullest without regretting ever day that passes. Expressions like these define the person that shows their world their way of thinking. To pass on knowledge, is a gift to humanity, one that isn't acknowledged enough so therefore to hide the wisdom that you've earned  and not share it with a younger or even an older person than yourself, should be considered an offence against our law. Why not pass on the wonders that you've learned from life? Age doesn't mean wisdom, age means regret. Age means knowing that you could have helped but you didn't  you could have been better or tired harder, but you didn't  you could have expressed yourself, like I find myself doing today, and let others learn from your mistakes, but you didn't  To tell people how you feel, is like picking out of a lucky dip. Why take the risk if the reward you might get could be negative. But then why does life have to have rewards for it to be great?

2. POSITIVE THINKING. I get so caught up with how I feel at that very moment in time, that I’m disappointed when I come back to reality. Recently I watch everyone else move on with their life while I sit and stare from behind the glass. But I guess sadness makes you feel like that, isolated from everyone else. I find myself wishing. That’s it really. Wishing is magic, something that we’re continually told, doesn't exist. But my mum always tells me, that if I think positive enough and wish hard enough, then my thoughts, my positive ones, and my wishes can make it come true and surely, when I find myself in awe at this working, I can then call it magic, right? I wish that life was easy. That I didn't have regrets. That I had been a child that everyone loved to be around rather than one that everyone ran from. Age brings regrets right? I’m only 18. And I could sure write you a list of regrets, but would you even care? Why should you even care? You don’t even know me. Which is positive, because I’m not that girl anymore.

3. JUST WALK AWAY FROM THINGS THAT HURT. That’s the thing with the 21st century. We’re too self absorbed, too caught up with what everyone else is doing rather than looking at the people closest to us and seeing if they need help. I learned to judge from a young age, but I bet you did too. And after that, when I tired to express how I felt to people, even my family, I was judged too. People saw me as dramatic because I screamed, I screamed because people didn't listen. So for anyone, of any age reading this, don’t scream. Don’t even shout, just walk away when people start laughing at how you feel, or telling you that your lying about how you feel or anything important to you for that matter, because you no better, and one day they’ll learn that you where telling the truth and they’ll learn that they were wrong to treat you like they did. I’m not saying that I was perfect. Nowhere near! I was the rattiest child you could imagine, especially when I didn't get my own way, but redemption is the key to growing up not just physically but emotionally too. So walk away from the things or people that hurt you because eventually they find they way back for redemption.

4. FEEL GOOD. You have to feel good about yourself for others to feel good about you. I haven’t yet mastered this one, well I haven’t mastered any of them yet, but I’m perfecting on them.  You only feel fat and you only feel ugly because society casts that upon you. And you know what kind of people who cast that upon you are? FAKES. Be who you are, not who you want to be. I’m sure that person who lays next to you at night and makes sure that your alright everyday doesn't look to see what imperfections you have when they spend every second loving you, whether it be your mother or father or that special person that makes you feel whole when there with you. You can only feel good when you know that what you’re doing with your life is best for you and also the people you care about. Never be self centered  It’s an awful characteristic and I can guarantee you that you’re better than that. Feel good about who you are, what you’re doing and who you’re growing up to be. Your always learning to be a better person.

5.LOVE BUT LIVE. Friends are as important as lovers. Lovers can be friends. Friends can be enemies but at the end of the day if you've got no one to love, then feel free to tell me how you’re living. Whoever or whatever (if they can see us, that is) , created the world we lived, could look at its creation now, would be disappointed. We’re destroying the thing that lets us live and were filling it with people who don’t know how to love and how to rule a community that should focus on loving. Because love is also the key to success. Imperfection is the key to success. So is positive thinking and feeling good because without this you wouldn't be living and if you couldn't live, then how would you share the knowledge you posses from your life time with the people who will shape the new world for our families to live in? Think about it.

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 Lauren Michelle  : )