January Nelson

Be clear with your intentions. “Hanging out” is not dating, and if you aren’t interested in someone enough to go out on a limb and ask to take them to dinner, you probably aren’t interested in them enough to be dating them at all.

Wrap people in hugs more often than you wrap things in paper.

Everybody has a past they don’t talk about. Not publicizing difficult (or traumatizing) experiences doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You never know who is carrying a burden, and often, it’s the people you’d least expect.

Just reading up until this point makes you want to click off and completely disregard it altogether.

Essentially, we turn to Twitter more than we ever turn on a TV station (at a rate of 61%, specifically) and while this is likely increasing our awareness of what’s happening in the world, it is also decreasing our open-mindedness.

Essentially, genuinely intelligent people are not the most quick-witted, confident or certain.

While men are under the pressure to succeed at one thing, women are held to a different standard: do it all, and do it well.

It’s really weird when you ask whether or not we have frequent threesomes, please stop.

Nobody is driven to create out of comfort.

You shouldn’t feel anxious and depressed, but you do.

We’ve all been called the same old nickname of “babe”. These pet names for girlfriend are perfect to get creative with what you call your love each day.

This whole time I thought you were just some emotionless zombie who didn’t really care about me but I now know that’s not true. You don’t delete someone from your life if you don’t care about them.

You spend an inordinate amount of your time freaking out about the things you’re potentially missing out on but are too paralyzed by anxiety to do anything about it.

You can’t afford a shrink so reading your horoscope will have to do.

You’re old enough to know that hurting yourself doesn’t feel good anymore but you’re too young to know how to really take care of yourself.

There’s something to be said for monogamy, for getting to know one body so well that you have it down to a science. With a single touch, you can send someone barreling towards ecstasy.

Can sit in silence with you for hours at a time without feeling any pressure to talk. Ah, what a gift!

Eat, Pray, Love AKA The Basic Bitch Bible changed your life. One day, when you find yourself trapped in a loveless marriage to a rich man in Connecticut, you’re going to leave him to go find yourself through extensive prayer and pizza.