Learned wisdom
You can only be responsible for your own happiness. In hand with that, only you are ultimately responsible for your own happiness. I do not believe that this disallows you from contributing to another's happiness, or vice versa.
If someone is interested, they will make the time. If they are not willing to make the time, they are not sufficiently interested to be worth your emotional or time investment to pursue. This is not meant to apply only to "love" interests but to interests of any sort.
Don't take shit from other people. You've already got your fair share. You don't need any of theirs.
We all travel different paths to get where we are. Do not judge someone for the path they have taken. Take them for who they are now. The best of paths can lead to the worst locations, and occasionally the nastier paths bring us to rare scenes of beauty.
Try it before you knock it. This does not apply to everything. ;) but if you have not tried it, try not to knock it. If you feel it just is not worth trying then own up to not knowing; to knowing that you do not know.
It is always no unless you ask.
In some cases, it really is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
We do not know what the future holds, no matter how much we believe otherwise. A single day can flip everything on its side.
Life IS a point of view. Not just an opinion. It is the conglomeration of all our past experiences. It is how we interpret events, how we react. And with sufficient effort, or a strong enough event, the relative reference can shift.
When warranted, when not warranted but neither is anything else: smile. Frown, scowl, and grimace when appropriate. But otherwise remember to smile.
Do not be afraid to cry. It is not weakness. It is healthy: emotionally, psychologically, and physically.
More to come. A statement of life as well as this note.
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