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"25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25 1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:36:50 -0400

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25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25

1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize that they actually have your best interests in mind or you forgive them for being flawed human beings, you can’t happily enter adulthood with that familial brand of resentment.

2. Kiss someone you think is out of your league; kiss models and med students and entrepreneurs with part-time lives in Dubai and don’t worry about if they’re going to call you afterward.

3. Minimize your passivity.

4. Work a service job to gain some understanding of how tipping works, how to keep your cool around assholes, how a few kind words can change someone’s day.

5. Recognize freedom as a 5:30 a.m. trip to the diner with a bunch of strangers you’ve just met.

6. Try not to beat yourself up over having obtained a ‘useless’ Bachelor’s Degree. Debt is hell, and things didn’t pan out quite like you expected, but you did get to go to college, and having a degree isn’t the worst thing in the world to have. We will figure this mess out, I think, probably; the point is you’re not worth less just because there hasn’t been an immediate pay off for going to school. Be patient, work with what you have, and remember that a lot of us are in this together.

7. If you’re employed in any capacity, open a savings account. You never know when you might be unemployed or in desperate need of getting away for a few days. Even $10 a week is $520 more a year than you would’ve had otherwise.

8. Make a habit of going outside, enjoying the light, relearning your friends, forgetting the internet.

9. Go on a 4-day, brunch-fueled bender.

10. Start a relationship with your crush by telling them that you want them. Directly. Like, look them in the face and say it to them. Say, I want you. I want to be with you.

11. Learn to say ‘no’ — to yourself. Don’t keep wearing high heels if you hate them; don’t keep smoking if you’re disgusted by the way you smell the morning after; stop wasting entire days on your couch if you’re going to complain about missing the sun.

12. Take time to revisit the places that made you who you are: the apartment you grew up in, your middle school, your hometown. These places may or may not be here forever; you definitely won’t be.

13. Find a hobby that makes being alone feel lovely and empowering and like something to look forward to.

14. Think you know yourself until you meet someone better than you.

15. Forget who you are, what your priorities are, and how a person should be.

16. Identify your fears and instead of letting them dictate your every move, find and talk to people who have overcome them. Don’t settle for experiencing .000002% of what the world has to offer because you’re afraid of getting on a plane.

17. Make a habit of cleaning up and letting go. Just because it fit at one point doesn’t mean you need to keep it forever — whether ‘it’ is your favorite pair of pants or your ex.

18. Stop hating yourself.

19. Go out and watch that movie, read that book, listen to that band you already lied about watching, reading, listening to.

20. Take advantage of health insurance while you have it.

21. Make a habit of telling people how you feel, whether it means writing a gushing fan-girl email to someone whose work you love or telling your boss why you deserve a raise.

22. Date someone who says, “I love you” first.

23. Leave the country under the premise of “finding yourself.” This will be unsuccessful. Places do not change people. Instead, do a lot of solo drinking, read a lot of books, have sex in dirty hostels, and come home when you start to miss it.

24. Suck it up and buy a Macbook Pro.

25. Quit that job that’s making you miserable, end the relationship that makes you act like a lunatic, lose the friend whose sole purpose in life is making you feel like you’re perpetually on the verge of vomiting. You’re young, you’re resilient, there are other jobs and relationships and friends if you’re patient and open.

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- January Nelson, 06/25/12 (via pale-afternoon)

I’m think I’m gonna do this

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Do all this!

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Tue, 21 May 2013 15:37:44 -0400

nedahoyin: receptiveapprehension: Erykah Badu & Janelle...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:32:19 -0400

nedahoyin:

receptiveapprehension:

Erykah Badu & Janelle Monáe Introduce 2013 Billboard Icon Award Honoree: Prince

i ‘YAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS..!!’ed so long and loud at this my dad almost kicked me out of his room.. lmao..

they look so FIERCE HUNNY!!!!!

motivationblog-org: New Post has been published on...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:15:42 -0400

motivationblog-org:

New Post has been published on http://www.motivationblog.org/amazing-poster-about-mistakes/

curly-essence: jaryd540: Gigi the dopest! one of the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:34:33 -0400

curly-essence:

jaryd540:

Gigi the dopest!

one of the homies!

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Next pay I will be organizing my closet I am so excited 😁

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:34:19 -0400

Next pay I will be organizing my closet I am so excited 😁

I don’t know if its just me or my style change but forever 21 used to be my place to shop. Now...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:29:57 -0400

I don’t know if its just me or my style change but forever 21 used to be my place to shop. Now I don’t even see one thing I want to buy anymore.

milesjai: HOW

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:22:58 -0400

milesjai:

HOW

emorenita: why aren’t these being reblogged more often?i rather...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:55:06 -0400

emorenita:

why aren’t these being reblogged more often?
i rather see these than “keys in hand”

the-bulls: Nate Robinson blocks Lebron James.

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:33:30 -0400

the-bulls:

Nate Robinson blocks Lebron James.

whoissugar: dollface-galactica: lulz-time: This post has been...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:21:11 -0400

whoissugar:

dollface-galactica:

lulz-time:

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

AHAHHAHAHA!!

Lol

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Sun, 12 May 2013 12:18:18 -0400

Erykah Interviews Kendrick Lamar

Sun, 12 May 2013 06:06:08 -0400

BADU: How do you choose chicks from backstage?
LAMAR: How do I choose chicks from backstage?
BADU: Yeah, what is the protocol?
LAMAR: I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid.
BADU: [laughs] So you just pass?
LAMAR: I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head.
BADU: So who is your asshole-checker?
LAMAR: Who is my what?
BADU: Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole.
LAMAR: I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element.
BADU: What’s your favorite cereal?
LAMAR: Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks.
BADU: What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?
LAMAR: There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…
BADU: That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me.

When I Find Myself With Free Time, I End Up Spending All Of It Watching Natural Hair Tutorials And Trying Them Out

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:52:41 -0400

curlycaramelchels:

I’m on vacation. Time is unimportant to me nowwww. muahahahha!

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teairachanel: QUEENS BY: Charles Mitchell

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:46:16 -0400

teairachanel:

QUEENS BY: Charles Mitchell

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homeandinteriors: fairy lights I would not mind making sweet...

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:26:43 -0400

homeandinteriors:

fairy lights

I would not mind making sweet long and passionate love in this bed.