Courtney Dercqu

We resign to the belief that if we change, the person we lost will come back to us.

It’s easy to look backward and see where it all went wrong. 

The reason why yoga doesn’t work for me is because I’m just not the kind of girl who likes to do yoga. And when I try to develop my happiness based on someone else’s routine, it overshadows my own.

I don’t want a baby because they will absolutely ruin my life.

Maybe there’s more people out there, like me, who are simply trying to figure out what their next move is or what’s going to make them happy. Maybe all of that is normal and widely accepted.

Alexa, remind me that I deserve the kind of love I tell my best friend she deserves. Because I’m tired of trying to convince myself otherwise. 

Alexa, play a song that will lift my spirits.

The five stages of grief don’t happen in succession.

Don’t give in to feeling guilty.

From an outsider’s perspective looking in, it was hard to understand. So, I want to explain. 

Analyze your friendships in 2020. Just because you have a history with someone, doesn’t mean that you have to force the relationship to thrive if it has already started to die. Friendships are meant to bring us joy – not judgment, anger or resentment.

Had I loved you first, I would have told you every day what you meant to me. I wouldn’t try to pretend that saying “I love you,” was derivative or that I was somehow too good for your generosity.  

Realize that part of your capabilities are recognizing that it’s okay to feel burdened, confused, or lost, but that you’re also capable of changing it at any time.

No one gets through life unscathed. No one gets through life without loss and death and grief.

1. Experience will only take you so far on a job interview; you have to show them that you have the passion and determination to get the job done.

It’s much more than the cost of a wedding that is luring millennials toward elopement; it’s the familial pressure to conform. 

Actual grief—from the anger to the depression to the eventual acceptance—doesn’t benefit from platitudes because you’ve finally emerged wiser and with a content understanding that how you feel is valid.

You’re not as easily rattled when you find out someone doesn’t like you.