soopastryheart

Let’s be better people. Let’s be better planners and better follow through-ers. Let’s be better promise keepers. Let’s go on more walks.

Let’s be better friends. Let’s be better listeners. Let’s stop using our schedules as excuses. Let’s make time. Let’s meet for coffees instead of texting. Let’s celebrate our life choices instead of criticizing and/or comparing.

Let’s call our parents more often. Let’s not forget that they miss us everyday.

Let’s realize and accept that despite our situations or backgrounds, we’re not that different from each other. Let’s embrace the fact that our feelings, no matter how isolating they may feel, are universally understood. Let’s stop shutting each other out because it’s the only thing we know how to do.

Let’s count to three and calm down. Let’s let the small things slide. Let’s take deep breaths and let the anger subside before we begin spitting out words because words are mean and they can hurt. Let’s try to see things from the other side, from a different perspective, and then reassess.

Let’s put our phones away in the presence of company. Let’s put away our phones.

Let’s put more focus on our accomplishments than our deficiencies. Let’s be less vindictive. Let’s use skepticism and rejection as fuel to get us where we need to be.

Let’s save more and spend less.

Let’s stop being so hard on ourselves. Let’s stop lamenting over where we are in life if we’re not quite where we want to be. Let’s stop feeling sorry for our poor selves. Let’s stop blaming others and take responsibility.

Let’s learn to balance our lives better. Let’s stop telling each other that it has to be one or the other. Let’s understand that our lives are interweaved, and each strand can help us grow as a whole. Let’s believe that if you felt so inclined, we are capable of having it all.

Let’s forgive each other. Let’s forgive ourselves.

Let’s become better versions of us than the year before.