The things they never teach you in school.
(That you only learn in the painful and proverbial ‘real world’.)
1. That when all is done and dusted, the only people who really matter are the ones who will be with you when you have nothing. When you are nothing. In those precious heady moments of praise from an editor or the delicious glee of a first paycheck (in a long time), it’s easy to lose yourself. Don’t.
2. In that same vein, what Tumblr expounded through reblog after reblog is true: Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
Nothing gold can stay. Including people.
3. People will only be nice to you when they want something from you. Usually either your money or your time. How nice they are is directly proportional to how much they want from you.
4. I spent my youth idealizing the day I’d have work associates buy me nice lunches in fancy restaurants and enjoy an after-work tipple on somebody else’s tab. Now that its happened, I’d trade that any day for a hawker centre meal (on my own dollar) with people I actually care about.
5. If you’re going to give your heart away, do so carefully. Nobody will treat it as well as you do.
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