1. Wake up at 5am or wake up at 9am or wake up at 1pm. You don’t need to wake up at the time someone else tells you to wake. Some people like seeing the sun rise when they get up, some people like seeing the sun shining bright in the middle of the sky when they get up. You decide. 

2. Drink coffee. Drink tea. Sometimes drink both one-by-one. Some days drink it black some days add too much milk. Somedays you can add too much sugar and some days none at all. But drink tea, and drink coffee.

3. Write your heart out, or draw your heart out, or sing your heart out, or paint your heart out, or dance your heart out. Just do something - one thing - until you’ve poured your heart out into it. 

4. Cuddle with your pillows, your stuffed toys, your bedsheets, your old sweaters, your mom’s sweaters, your dad’s sweaters, or sweaters in general.

5. Read a book. Don’t read just any book. Go to the bookstore and spend as much time as you want. You may take 1 hour or you might take 6, but take your time. Look for that one book you want to read; that one book you really want to read. 

6. Decorate your room. Make silly cut outs out of old cardboard. Randomly splash paint on your walls. Take down old hangings and put up new ones. Add pictures. And plants, lots of plants.

7. Get rid of old clothes. You can give them up for charity or to your younger cousin or you can dump them in the dumpster. But first, take them out of your closet, where they have been for more than a year. In them lie the memories of when you were different, your memories from when you wore this shirt every third day, the memories from when you sat on the grass with that someone and the wet soil dirtied your shorts but you didn’t care. Take those clothes and neatly fold them, like how your mother taught you to fold clothes that day when you told her you’ll move out soon, and she smiled and told you how you can barely barely fold your clothes the right way and can’t even keep your room tidy. Take them and put them all in a box and label it ‘memories’. Then get rid of it. 

8.  Hug a lot. Hug your mother, your brother, your father, your sister, you friends, your aunt, your uncle, your cousins, everyone you know and are comfortable with. Hug people. 

9. Wear hoodies all day, or wear a cute dress all say, or wear PJs all day. You can wear your baggy pants and a t-shirt when you go shopping for groceries as well as when you go shopping at the mall. You can wear a dress for when you go shopping for groceries as well as when you go shopping at the mall. Buy the same t-shirt in 3 different colours just because you want to wear it everyday or buy a dress and wear it once because it only looked nice for that one time. Wear shorts or jeans or skirts or pants or whatever you want. You decide what goes on your body. Not anyone else.

10. Say sorry to yourself. For every time you’ve said no to a slice of cake, to pizza, to that pastry that looked so good. For every time you’ve looked at magazines and imagined your face on the figure of the model. For every time you’ve stood in front of the mirror and imagined how you would look if you lost a few pounds. For every time you’ve sucked in your tummy and held your chin a little higher. Say sorry to yourself.

(via haztic)