By the Time You Read This

Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.

My mind remianed focused on the moment. Tommorow was another day. But I wanted to stay like this forever.

I'd fallen marginally in lust with him

Best friends are a bit special and a bit rare - like sand made out of gold - and when you find a good one, keep her. Treat her the way you like to be treated. And always be loyal.

Perhaps things aren't great. But however bad they seem, remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this.

There's always this build-up to your eighteenth, and when it finally comes around you realize it's just the day after you were seventeen.