Getting carded.

Hey, so guess what?
I'm a legal adult.
Like exactly right now.
Craziness!

I'm pretty sure someone is pulling a prank on me.
Like my father is going to run up the stairs and yell, "Ah! You aren't really a legal adult yet! We have been pulling a prank on you for all these years!"

And I will yell and slam my door, but secretly think that it makes sense. . .

I mean, think of it! Only two years away from my second decade.

A decade seems like such a long time. I suppose it's not though.

So, I was thinking: "Self, what have I learned these past years?"

Here's some information I find important...things I've lived through to learn. "Important" things, aye?

- Friends are like duct tape, they can fix anything, hold you together, and can make the prettiest and awesome things.
- Tea is better when the water is heated in a kettle, not in the microwave.
- Keeping a fish alive more than a week seems to be a miracle for me.
- Never through away your VHS player, because there's nothing like a Disney movie with friends.
- When you fall down, pick yourself up off the ground, laugh like mad, then put on a band-aid. Always in that order.
- When you lose the remote, just get off your butt and press the buttons on the actual television.
- Mirrors are meant to be used sparingly.
- Always try to follow the rules, except when painting and playing checkers.
- The darkest lettuce is the best.
- The best safety net isn't made out of rope, but good relationships with people who love God more than you.
- Locking your door doesn't lock out the bad things, just like keeping your mouth shut doesn't hold the hurt in.
- "Being faithful in the small things shows God that you can be trusted with the big things." -Gary Spear.
- Photography is wonderful and lovely, but you have to learn not to live life through a camera lens.
- Sunshine is a wonderful thing made to make people happy. Use it!
- People all over the world are the same in the way that they all just want to be loved.
- You don't have to travel a million miles to find someone to help. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't travel a million miles to help someone, either.
- Although overpriced on Itunes, music is always worth it.
- There is nothing like a cabin full of girls to make you feel truly happy and loved.
- Hold hands with everyone.
- Find places you are truly happy in and hold onto them, and don't think that it will be somewhere obvious.
- There is no greater blessing than colors.
- You see the trend of the importance of having a critical mind and a skepticism toward everything. But, amidst this questioning society and the heartless plundering through books and thoughts. . .try to find a light in everyone you meet and everything you do and everything you do. That little light, that outlook is worth more than a million books and websites and questions. It has the power to rock worlds, make people smile, and turn dark days into happy days.
- In everything you do, do it for more than just you.