National Best Friends Day

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” 
― Bob Marley

Preach it, Bob Marley.

That's the thing with life, it's unfair. Everyone is going to stab you in the back, everyone is going to lie to you, break your trust, and make you cry.

You are going to meet people who put you in the lowest places, you are going to meet people who will keep you in those low places or push you down even further, but I promise you if you look hard enough there will be people who can bring you out of that dark place.

Those people who take you out of there are the best of friends, whether they stay up all night to text you, sit next to you in a hospital bed, or listen to music with you until you feel better.

Diamonds, I swear to you that your true friend is out there, and to tell you the truth, you might not meet them in high school. You might have to wait a really long time to find someone who will say all of the right things, be there for you, and keep all of your promises.

Until you find them, I suggest family. Stay as close to them as possible, because you will be stuck with them anyways, and they have to help you in your time of need.

But never, ever, settle for anyone who makes you feel less than you are.

Teenage Wasteland.

I'd be lying to you if I told you Junior year wasn't the hardest thing I've ever been through, and I haven't even been in it for two months yet.

It's kind of scary when someone tells you that being a high schooler is the greatest time of your life, and it should be.

We should be able to smile more, but we can't when we have to stay up so late and finish essays, readings, formal labs, and calculus.

Being a teenager is suppose to be fun, I shouldn't have to worry about my future as much as I do now, and I worry a lot, I worry to the point of wondering why I try so hard, and why don't I just give up?

And I know I'm not the only one, because I have plenty of friends who consider dropping their AP classes and just aim for community college.

I wish I had the courage to do that, and sometimes I don't know why I don't.

My goal in life is to just be happy, and right now I'm not.

So why should I spend my "best years" not happy because I have the slightest hope that if I'm unhappy now I'll be better in the future?

The Great Escape

Now that school has started we find ourselves consumed in pools of stress.

Staying up into the latest hours of the night, hardly keeping our eyes open in first and second period, and declining invitations to sleepover because you are too exhausted to have a late night gossip secession with your friends (Maybe that last one was just me).

I don't know about you, but I count myself lucky if I can get even 6 hours of sleep on a school night.

What teenagers really need is an escape from their lives, not more homework, or the school schedule to change.

We need a day or a moment just to close our eyes and completely forget the huge bricks of stress sitting on our shoulders.

Everyone has their emergency escape route when things get stressful. I like to listen to music, go on a run, or even just read a book of my choice (Sometime I blog too).

And if you're like me, and it's Junior year, the most critical year in your high school career, I suggest you find your outlet fast, because being the stressed girl in your group of friends, won't help you at all.

Oh, One Who Knows All!

We have many different kinds of friends.

The one who takes fashion very seriously.

The one who you consider your therapist.

The one who you wish you were.

The one all the boys like.

The ridiculously smart one.

All of them are always there for you, and all of them you would consider sisters on certain days.

But today we aren't talking about those friends, today we are talking about your psychic friend.

OK, so this is not an episode of That's So Raven this girl doesn't actually have visions that land you guys in a huge problem, but she's the girl who has always been the first to call things before they happen. She called that couple breaking up months ago, she called that you would all hate that girl by senior year, she called that your teacher was pregnant when she was only 8 weeks along.

Maybe it can get really annoying because at first you think she's just trying to say all these things to start pointless drama, or bring attention to something that's never really been an issue. However I want you to trust me, one day you will have this feeling of, "Oh my god, why did I never listen to you in the first place?"

I'm not about to tell you to start listening to that friend 24-7, because you need to learn the hard way that this person will always be right.

And trust me Diamonds, she's always right.

Change In The August Air.

I'm sure plenty of you now have tanned skin, sun kissed hair, and an abundance of stories to tell your friends when you return to school.

But has anything really influential happened to you?

Something life changing?

Your tan is not life changing. Unless you have Irish skin like me, then you can brag.

I have always believed in Summer, it's the time when your life makes the most unbelievable change, and that's why we love it.

We all claim to love routine, always knowing what comes next and no surprises, but where's the amusement in that?

Where's your excitement?

Honestly yes, we love knowing certain things in our life won't change. Our birthday will always be the same day, our dogs will always wait for us at the door when we come home, our friends will always hug us when we cry, and there will always be a celebrity train wreck.

But I promise you, if you saw who you will meet in the future, where you will go to college, what your career will be, who you will marry, how many kids you will have, when you'll retire. If you saw that all in front of you, you would try to change it. Maybe you wouldn't be able to change it, but you wouldn't want to know everything about your life just like that.

So I guess we can always count on surprises, especially during the Summertime.

If something in your life hasn't changed during this summer, you may feel like you've missed out, but you might also want to feel grateful, because not every change is a good change.

But if it's something you really want, to change your life. Then do it by yourself, it's actually incredibly simple.

Under Pressure

So it's finally Summer, and you've all probably had the sweet taste of freedom so far.

It's finally here homework bonfires, beach trips, late night parties, and smiling a lot more.

Do you guys feel that way? I feel like I just smile more in the summer.

Every summer I have this idea in my head that I've changed because of summer. Every summer I become this new person with an insane amount of confidence and the ability to relax and not worry about all the stressful things going on.

 but I realize that summer isn't what changes me, school is what changes me.

I have a belief that during summer you find yourself, and you get use to who that person is, and during the school year we can re-find that person during weekends and holiday breaks, but besides those few gatherings we lose them, and we become someone else.

Someone who is full of stress and feels the pressure that school puts onto us every day we have to go there, and I feel that is no way to live.

It's no way to live because not everyone can handle that pressure, and a lot of us crack under it.

When people crack or break under that pressure it never goes unnoticed, but things always go unchanged.

Adults try to tell us that there are healthy ways to control out stress, but there really is no way when they keep adding more on to it.

Thankfully we have summer, which is the greatest escape anyone could ever ask for, a little under three months of pure smiles, laughter, and care free happiness.

Summer is where true memories are made.

Don't Let It Be Too Late

Moments.

Our lives are a serious of moments.

From our first cry, to our last words, and everything in between, these are the moments that amount to who we are.

That's important to remember Diamonds, we are the result of every moment we have ever lived.

Some times you don't get as many moments as other people do.

Life is unexpected, and so is death.

You could be on top of the world at one moment, and the next you've hit the ground, and you're gone.

So don't let anything ever go unsaid, unspoken, or unknown.

You don't know what will happen tomorrow, or if there will be a tomorrow for all of us, and I don't want to ever hear one of you say "I wish I had just... before it was too late."

Maybe you fear of the immediate consequences from telling someone something, but don't be. The pain you feel after telling them is nothing compared to the pain you will feel of them gone without ever knowing your true emotions.

Don't ever let it be too late.

Whether you are six, fourteen, twenty-three, or sixty years old, it can always be too late.