21 lessons I've learned at 21

Life is a journey filled with experiences to enjoy

I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to live 21 elevating years filled with beautiful experiences and moments that have turned into life lessons today. I am truly indebted to God for giving me the strength and courage to get through these years and for the opportunity to share these 21 pieces of life lessons with you. 

1. Situations change just as much as people in your life change. Don’t expect much from the things that are perishing and inconstant, instead, rely solely on God, who is constant. This way, you will never be disappointed and feel let down.
2. You can be busy all day, but so are the ants. What are you busy for? Live your life in a meaningful way and that will make every day worth looking forward to.
3. Love and appreciate the people that matter in your life, but also forgive easily because there's nothing heavier on the heart than the inability to let go of hurt, sadness and sorrow.
4. It’s healthier on the mind and the heart to change your feeling, opinion and perspective of a situation when you can’t change it.
5. Accept that you are a seed that has been planted onto this earth for a very specific reason – to bloom and to give back in a way that is unique. Seek to explore your potential and let your light shine.
6. Be kind to every soul you meet, do a random act of kindness for them for every individual is fighting their own battles, and so be kind.
7. Our mind is a vessel of energy. Our thoughts are waves of energy and therefore we are energy. Be responsible for the energy you bring into any space.
8. Life will present all sorts of situations before you; many may not be the way you want them to be. Be flexible and adaptable through every situation and you will breeze right through it.
9. Always find opportunities to help and benefit others, one day that reward will find its way back to you in ways you could not even imagine.
10. Appreciate the smallest things in life, the nature around you, the people, the skies and all that is in the earth gifted to us by our Creator. The simple things which at heart bring us contentment - not the material things.
11. Be true to yourself and brave enough to be brutally honest about your flaws, then work on it. Every day should be an opportunity to become the best version of ourselves that we can be.
12. Continuously work on maintaining an inner stillness within you which can become a sanctuary to which you can retreat to in a busy and fast moving atmosphere.
13. Be nice to people. Even those who are not nice to you. Why? Because you’re a nice person.
14. WITH difficulty comes ease.
15. The only way to live life with contentment and joy is to immerse yourself into the sea of service.
16. Appreciate even the littlest of things people do for you, for it is not out of their duty or their right but merely out of their good nature.
17. Do not compare yourself to others in a way that is destructive to your being. Accept who you are and know that it is okay to be that way as long as you keep working on your less positive points and you know you’re doing your best.
18. Surround yourself with those that help your being for habits and traits tend to rub off easily – so be sure that it’s the good and positive ones that rub off on you.
19. Less is more and in simplicity lies real beauty
20. Nothing is permanent. Not life; not worries.
21. Let your life and heart be like an open door. Appreciate those that walk in, let go of the ones that leave. 

Stay blessed :)