Are You Ready To Jump?

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I trust you have the strength to start over.

This is life.

People will screw you over. You’ll fight with your family. You’ll witness things that will change you forever. You’ll blame new lovers for things old lovers did. You’ll lose best friends you thought would always be there. You’ll come to realize that everyone has a past.

You’ll cry, you’ll laugh, and you’ll embarrass yourself.

But then, you’ll find your very own moment where none of that matters; where you can sit back and realize that shit happens to the people who can handle it and that this is who you are, and that no one should want to change you, including yourself.

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup.

It’s never occurred to me before; I’ve never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

It’s amazing how at one point in our lives we will be extremely close with someone and then later they will become a complete stranger.

You will pass by them without a word. Without a single acknowledging look. This person, who once knew you so well, who once knew your fears, your desires, your dreams, your past, is now walking right past you, seeing right through you.

Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling, deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.

Don’t you long for something different to happen, something so new and exciting it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?

I’m not going to spend my life chasing people.

You wanna leave? Fine then, go ahead.

‘Cause I’m done with chasing and caring for people who never had interest in me.

Nothing lasts and people change.

I’ve learned love is hard and life is strange.

At this age, everything is changing. Day by day...we don’t notice, but just look back over the past year and you will realize everything has.

People you thought were going to be there forever aren’t, and people you never imagined you’d be speaking to are now some of your closest friends.

Life makes little sense, and the more we grow the less sense it will make.

So make the most of it now, before it all changes once again, because in the near future, all of this is only going to be memories.

You’re afraid to do things or try something new, but in the end, if you don’t take chances, you’re going to shut out the best things in life.

You know it’s been said that we just don’t recognise the significant moments of our lives while they are happening. We grow complacent with ideas, or things or people and we take them for granted and it’s usually not until that thing is about to be taken away from you that you’ve realized how wrong you’ve been that you realized how much you need it, how much you love it.

At some point, you’ve just got to jump.

There's only so much you can learn in one place. The more that I wait, the more time that I waste.

I haven't got much time to waste it's time to make my way, I'm not afraid of what I'll face but I'm afraid to stay in one place.

I'm going down my road and I can make it alone, I'll work and I'll fight till I find a place of my own.

Are you ready to jump?

Get ready to jump, don't ever look back...just take my hand and get ready to jump!

I've  learned my lessons from the start...that the only thing I can depend on are my friends.

Life's gonna drop you down like the limbs from a tree...It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see.

Are you ready?

There's only so much you can learn in one place, the more that you wait, the more time that you waste.

We will make it alone, Dan and me.

You’ve got to quit being scared of the “maybes” and “what-ifs” and just fucking jump.

Quit cheating yourself out of the best thing that could ever happen to you, and just fall. Fall hard, fall long, and fall forever.

When you start to see people change, you start to wonder if they were like this in the beginning, and if you just never noticed it.

But don’t forget you once loved who they were before. Don’t take it out on them for changing, because nobody stays the same. We all grow and we all change.

People leave and things they change.

You will never get all that you want, that’s why we gotta learn to live with what we’ve do have. And no matter how much, or how little, always take comfort in knowing that someone, somewhere loves you with all of their heart.

You might not know who just yet but I promise you that there is someone out there who will give you their all, with no hesitations.

Sometimes, there are things in our life that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes, change may not be what we want.

Sometimes, change is exactly what we need. And sometimes, saying goodbye is the hardest thing you think you’ll never have to do, but sometimes, saying hello again is the thing that breaks you down and makes you more vulnerable than you ever thought possible.

Sometimes, change is too much to bear.

But most of the time, change is the only thing saving your life.

No matter how long it takes, it will get better. No matter how many tears there will always be a time when your eyes stop crying and your eyes start shining again. Just know that everything will be alright no matter what you, he, or she thinks. Because life is nothing but a big elastic band. Stretched to one end, it will always bounce back the beginning, in the end.

I don’t think feelings change, nor people. I think situations change.

I know that it’s possible to dislike someone after loving them so much or to love someone after feeling so much hate towards them but, it’s not because people change, it’s because it’s not the same anymore. It’s because something made you think differently, something opened your eyes, something caused you to see everyday the way it is at last.

It’s like days.

Days can be cloudy, or days can be sunny but days don’t change, the weather does. And nothing can play a part in that or fix that, they can just let it be.

Are you ready to Jump?

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