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[thebishounen]

I turned 20 yesterday.

How do I have two decades behind me already?

Wisdom (?) of a 20 year old:

• Drama is often self-inflicted and never worth your time.  People who bring this out in you are also not worth your time.
  
• One can meet good friends and say farewell to them within a span of 2 months.  This, however, does not mean that the friendship was not worth it.
• Life does not stop to observe your loss.  As hard as that is to grapple with in the moment, it is a reality of this world.
  
• You can learn a lot from people who are younger than you.
• Micormanaging life must be done at times, but appreciation of life's small miracles takes little time out of the grind and makes existence a lot more managable.
• Much of the beauty found in the universe has its roots in the impermanent nature of things.
• There is a difference between logic and rhetoric.
• You can understand another's behavior without agreeing with it.
• Debates at 10PM with good friends whlie eating greasy food when you have other work that needs to be done is the stuff of life.
• While fate does not exist, only a fool believes in coincidence. 
  
• Taking time to do things that you love, while fulfilling, still takes time.
• You can miss people that you choose to cut out of your life, but that doesn't mean the choice should not have been made.
  
• Compassion is the most powerful weapon one can wield.
• Family is a term that extends beyond blood ties.
• Grief cannot be forced.  It has to be organic and honest.
• At the end of the day, if you can laugh at yourself, look at yourself in the mirror and sleep soundly, you have lived a good life.