36 Things I Wish I Figured Out Sooner
- Fluff rice with a fork, never stir it with a spoon.
- Vaseline is the best night time eye cream on the market.
- You can buy alcohol and chips with your parents’ gas station credit cards.
- If you force something, you’ll break it. That could be good or bad.
- It’s important to read the care tags on your clothing and follow those instructions.
- Related: don’t wash and dry j. crew wool sweaters.
- Changing your car’s oil is not optional.
- Whatever physical objects you acquire you will one day have to put into a box and move.
- You’re allowed to disagree with negative feedback.
- It’s always worth reading the instruction manual.
- Nostalgia, like any drug, can be a poison or a remedy.
- Pets are like human friends but better in every conceivable way.
- Good doctors listen more than they talk.
- You can’t fix a burned roux.
- Floss.
- Just because someone is an authority figure does not mean they are intelligent/competent/right.
- Measure twice, cut once.
- Get your nice jeans and dress pants tailored by a professional.
- If you’re uncomfortable wearing it you will not look good.
- You’re not required to drink alcohol while in a bar.
- There are a few things that cure all ills: the beach, your favorite album on vinyl, and fresh garlic.
- Kindness is not weakness.
- Baking soda is not baking powder.
- Taking Excedrin P.M. while still in public is not advisable.
- Terrible people will succeed. Wonderful people will fail. The world is not fair.
- Appropriate footwear is always key.
- You can absolutely be too forgiving.
- Real humor punches up, not down.
- Reading the assigned chapters will actually help you learn the material.
- There are no adults. Everyone is as clueless as you are.
- Applying eyeliner well is a timeless art.
- You can always leave. Awkward dates, suffocating jobs, hometowns that you outgrow, relationships that aren’t growing in the right direction.
- You can always come home again.
- But it won’t be the same.
- Life is too short for bad books, boring movies, shitty people, and margarine.
- Never underestimate the importance of eyebrows.
