Day 325. Do your best

   ...in everything you do. Sometimes you know you won't be able to do it perfectly, but still, try your best. In the end trying counts. 

   Do your best in friendships. Involve, share feelings. If they act like they don't care, they're not the right persons. Move on.

   Do your best in being a good model for others. We are all broken and have issues to be solved, but maybe you can teach others stuff you've been through. Remember to check if they want to be taught first!

   Do your best in being a confident and just listening from time to time. Don't judge if they complain or talk too much about the same thing. Everything one says is a function of that they feel. Complaining or talking too much about it might mean they have an unsolved problem. Maybe you can help. Check if they wanna be helped or just listened to. 

   Do your best in being a good person. You will make mistakes anyhow, but knowing you chose to be good instead of being bad is awesome.

   Do your best in leaving this place better than you found it, be it at your job or just the world around you.

   Do your best to hang on in there. Sometimes you will feel lonely, unloved or unneeded but that's when you have to remember it would be a brilliant idea to become friends with yourself. And love spending time by yourself instead of depending on people to make you happy.

   Do your best. Try. You will fail sometimes, but keep trying. Don't give up. Never give up.

Day 186. The lazy

   We're all lazy at some point. Lazy to do this and that: lazy to wake up, to go to classes, to work, to write the projects... lazy to learn for the exams, to go out and catch up with our friends, to go to the park and to do all the things we used to do. All this because we get to a stage where we think we deserve what we've got and that everything is going to be the same no matter if we do something to keep it alive or not. And then laziness strikes. We find reasons to stop being active, be it because we're too tired of working all day, because we just wanna lay on our comfy armchair and watch movies or because our friends will forever be our friends no matter if we use the cellphone and social networks more than face-to-face hang outs. 

   I saw my best friend today. It's been a while. I'd say our schedules are very tight, but that wouldn't be entirely true. I am tired most of the days but I guess I just got too lazy. And too lazy isn't good. How long has it been since you last saw your friends? Just to hang out and catch up, nothing fancy. Hm?

   We get self absorbed at some point. We think we write the story of our life, that we can control our friendships... but we all know it's never like that. And don't you say "I don't need them to be happy" because you know how much you actually do! You do need people to get silly with, people to laugh with and people to bond with over music and love stories. So throw away comfort and replace it with sacrifice. You'll see how much you'll enjoy seeing your friends again! I bet you'll have the time of your life and at the end of it you'll remember how much you actually missed them:)