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I didn’t want to admit that maybe I could be traumatizing other people by constantly bringing up my own traumas. 

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What if you paused, stopped making it so much about you and your need to hear those stubborn words “you were right,” and instead asked, What can you teach me from this? What can I possibly learn out of this?

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I was able to get a chance to know what I love to do, what moves me, and I don’t want to waste that. Not everybody gets the chance to know their calling.

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The ability to see multiple perspectives. People who know themselves look inside and outside of themselves for answers.

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You feel fine apologizing incessantly, but never ask for apologies from other people who have wronged you.

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Vulnerability is not a flaw. It is not a shortcoming, not something to apologize for. Vulnerability is something strong, something raw — a sort of power not everyone possesses.

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You don’t give people a chance. On your 28th birthday, on the way to dinner with you and your friend Dave, she read you like a book. She said you give up on people too easily, and that’s why you were chronically single. Dave agreed.

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It is not cowardice or weakness. It is your sole responsibility to protect your well-being and your emotional health.

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It’s time to give up the idea that we are completely defined by what our brain thinks we are, and to account for the ways we can change and adapt to our environment.

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The thing is, we wouldn’t post statuses, write tweets or upload selfies if we were not looking for something. And that something is validation.