An inside joke on the outside

So there's this new thing people are doing. It's called, sharing your thoughts and feelings. Absurd right? Well, here I am, joining the trend, under the influence of a good friend. However, I do think he'll be slightly disappointed in me. I unfortunately do not possess the ability to write like a poet 24/7. Instead, I write like the human being that I really am - flesh and bones, all that I have. Here goes nothing...

As best friends often do, Danielle and I have made a habit of laughing at my difficult situations. Of course, as follows with friends, we only do so after I've recovered from whatever it is that's just happened and am distant enough to look back and find the humor, whether it takes me 5 minutes or 13 months. One night, after stupidly hopping a curb in a Wawa parking lot in front of, oh you know, only about 20 people, I called her laughing hysterically and she came up with the idea for a book called "Life lessons learned the hard way," starring all of my bizarre and awkward experiences. Welcome to my spin-off version. Kelsey wanted me to name the book "I'm having a bad life," but unless you're me and Kelsey, that won't make any kind of comical sense and it just sounds morbid.

Lessons learned thusfar:

1. Take note of where you park. If you forget that you parked in front of a curb, once the front tires have made it over that curb, don't hesitate so everyone can stare at you even longer, just own it and go for it damnit.

2. If your boyfriend pees on you after you've taken care of him all night, that's probably a great time to tell him goodbye, but only after you've told everyone you know about what happened.

3. Attempting to live illegally somewhere, no matter how appealing it may seem, is never going to work out. Trust your gut and don't do it.

4. Changing in your car in the middle of Philadelphia. Don't know where the lesson is in that, but ya, it happened.

5. Always have an umbrella on your person. At ALL times.

6. DO NOT talk to strange men on the subway, EVER.

7. In fact, maybe just avoid talking to men in general.

8. Whenever anything happens, good, bad, awful and anywhere in between...go dance. Let it go. Experience that anything with everything you have.

There are certainly more lessons that have already been learned, but I'm gonna need my friends to serve as my memory and fill me in. So, for now this is my life, in writing. Me living, breathing and learning each and every day. I'll get it right...one day...hopefully. But, for now, this is it, and this is me.