New Years Resolutions That May Actually Change Your Life

1) Live as honestly as you can. As cliché as it is, you could be dead tomorrow. You could get hit by a bus, you could have an unexpected heart attack in your sleep. Tell people you love them all the time. Tell them you're happy they're alive. When someone hurts you, let them know. Stop pretending you aren't bleeding simply because you don't want to appear weak. "There is nothing more beautiful than being honest and being desperate- and there is nothing more dangerous than pretending you don't care."

2) This is how he will leave you: hours after telling you he loves you- silently, unexpectedly, through back doors and basement windows in the middle of the night. He will never call you again. When you feel tempted to call him first, replay the sound of his tires screeching down the street. Recall how his car always reeked of pot anyway, and how he never once bought you flowers. This year, put the phone down and remind yourself that you cannot be abandoned, you can only be released.

3) Wear whatever the hell you want. It sounds simple, but it never has been. Wear knee high socks in the dead of winter, wear neon orange, wear a cocktail dress to the grocery store. If they stare at you, good. Change your hair color, experiment with different eye makeup. You are Van Gogh and your entire body is a blank canvas for you to paint as you please.

4) stop getting wasted with people who don't give two shits about you. Find the people that you can call at 3 am crying- and then do it. Redefine the perfect Friday night. Spend it making homemade tacos and blackout poetry out of old Bukowski books.

5) Live.

6) Live.

7)Live.