Adulting

People will come to care about you, but only if you give them a valid reason. Don’t assume they’ll give you love like your parents, emotional support like your best friend, and cheerful feedback like a soccer coach for seven-year-olds. Because they won’t, unless you give them good reason to. And even then, they still probably won’t.

Look comfortable alone

Don’t get hurt when the world doesn’t care about you
It’s not as depressing as it sounds.

Adult isn’t a noun, it’s a verb. It’s the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our day

You can have nice things — if you treat them like they are, in fact, nice things

Live cheaply, celebrate your poverty, and strive toward the day when forty dollars doesn’t seem like too much to pay for pants

We don’t remember the fourteen things we do reasonably well; we remember our one arena of miserable failure.

We all sense our own dysfunction so clearly. And because we can’t do that one thing —

Chances are good that person is looking at you the same way.

This is supported by the popular, though incorrect, perception that you’re surrounded by people who have it together