Things I’ve Given Up

1. Trying to get people who don’t like me to like me.

2. Trying to write blog posts without lists in them.

3. Consistently clean floors.

4. That I can be as happy off medication as I am on medication.

5. Wearing a bikini.

6. That, as my mom told me in middle school, my eyebrows would thin out as I aged.

7. Trying to let other people’s ideas about my life mold my life.

8. Sit ups.

9. Thinking I need a better house/body/relationship/skirt/moisturizer to be happier/prettier/more fulfilled.

10. The days of updating this blog frequently.

11. Any type of bra that is manufactured for girls who don’t need bras.

12. That my opinion is more important than anyone else’s.

13. Being angry for someone cutting me off in traffic.

13a. Being angry for someone doing something mean. They don’t mean it, and if they do, they deserve my sympathy, not my anger.

13b. Okay, I’m trying. I’m not Gandhi over here.

14. Being mean, even if it’s just to myself.

15. Caring if I take shitty photographs.

16. Keeping up with trends, or food fads, or celebrities.

How about you?