Please take road trips.

Please take chances.

Please do that scary, exciting thing.

Please love your body. It will return the love tenfold.

Please write.

Please create.

Please be kind.

Please learn something new. All the time. There’s always something.

Please have adventures.

Please go to that tiny coffee shop you always pass by on the way home from work.

Please give strangers compliments.

Please dance.

Please allow yourself to love and to be loved. I know it can be terrifying. Do it anyway.

Please speak your mind.

Please let yourself cry, whether it’s in front of a thousand people or alone in your room.

Please let yourself laugh. Your laugh is lovely, I promise.

Please pick up the phone when your dad calls, even if you’ve just had a fight. He won’t be around forever.

Please read books.

Please listen to rain.

Please live your life.