Jamie Varon

We’d drink whiskey shots straight and he’d smoke weed and I’d think of ways to avoid his lips.

Do anything you possibly can except write the damn sentence.

I think every day is the day people will stop liking me.

People are honestly surprised by how much of a life outside of your relationship you maintain. You didn’t automatically ditch who you were once you got into a relationship and it’s strange how shocked people are by that.

You found this post on Facebook because you are on Facebook all the time now. Your life is Facebook. You’re even playing Farmville.

As someone who writes on the internet for a living, I am well-versed in the madness of comment sections.

Because I think I should. Because I’m punishing myself for not being good enough, for not being hot, for not being thin.

We might be homebodies or introverts or selectively social or whatever other way we’d like to define ourselves, but at the end of the day, we are human. We are human beings who desire interaction and connection with other human beings.

Question the story you have about yourself which runs on repeat, the story which dictates your behavior. Self-awareness is power.

So, as you go into 2015 and you resolve yourself to grand plans, remember to ask yourself whether your resolutions are being dictated by shame in yourself or by love for yourself.

No, I don’t have to be anything by the time I’m 30, but I want to be. I want to have done more. I want to have been young and reckless and stupid just a bit longer.

Practice self-awareness instead of distraction.

You have to let go of the life you think you’re supposed to have in order to step into the life that is yours. This is essential.

We don’t commit now. We can order up a human being in the same way we can order up pad thai on Seamless. We think intimacy lies in a perfectly-executed string of emoji. We think effort is a “good morning” text.

All your favorite pop songs covered by other pop artists! It’s a little self-congratulatory, but you know, it makes for good music.

So, no, you don’t need to make your truth pretty. You don’t need to say things are okay when they’re not. You don’t need to figure it all out and tie it all up and then—and only then—tell your truth.

When they say that the truth will set you free, what they mean is that you will be free from the burdening weight of having to conceal who you are.

I will love you when you are not you anymore. I will love you when you change. I will love you one day, but not today.