Holy moley it's been forever! I am sorry. I feel so neglectful. But if you're my kid, you'll probably be used to that. Anyways, things are good; friends have visited, I've visited home...things are looking better on the job front. Here's to an awesome new year of amazing opportunities, fun times, new friends, and other very explicit things I can't even put into words.
I know it's been basically a month since I last blogged, but let's be grateful it wasn't longer (that's what she said! OH! I hope those are still funny during your lifetime).
Why did it take me so long to blog...well, besides being really lazy (I mean, come on, I'm writing this probably YEARS before you come out of any vagina), I just didn't know what the next lesson should be.
Lesson 9: Value the people you love in your life.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately as I try and figure out what the next chapter in my life going to be. Am I going to stay in the Bay Area, am I going to go home to Seattle, move back to New York?...Go somewhere completely different? There's so many pros and cons to each and I don't know if there's really a right answer.
But the common string threading them all together is the people that are there. I hope that I have raised you to be socially competent to be lucky enough to have made amazing friends like I have. I also hope that I have instilled in you a true love for your family. You know, it's weird. Moving around so much, I had this weird thought in my head that it'd be so much easier if I wasn't close with my family and friends...that'd certainly make it a lot easier to leave the places I love...but then I think that my life would mean nothing without these people.
This is such a "duh!" kinda thing for most people, I think. Of course you should love your mom and dad and your sister and brother and your bestfriend and boy/girlfriend, but I think it's hard to put those feelings into perspective. The people who love you, the people you love, occupy so much of your life and enrich it in ways that money and a job can't. I know I talk a lot about finding the right job, but there's a lot to be said about finding the right people that make your life better. It hurts to not be able to hangout with my sisters, see my friends, or have dinner with my mom and dad, but that is just a symptom of love. They say absence makes the heart grow stronger, and I totally believe that to be true.
At the end of the day, your job doesn't hug you back and your money doesn't tell you it cares about you. So take some time and just THINK about how much you appreciate the loved ones in your life. Just that, is a homage to the people in your life, when you think about the people you love, why you love them, and how they have impacted your life.
This is probably the simplest lesson to date...but it's a good one. Learn to love, to be grateful, and know that the people in your life won't always be there, so cherish them while you are able to.
LOVE,
P
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
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