I recently saw the film Before Midnight at my local theater. I would highly recommend it to everyone, but make sure you watch the first two installments of the series, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. After the film was over, an older woman probably in her 60s came up to my group of friends to ask us what we thought of the film since we were clearly discussing the series and were fans. We told her we enjoyed it and she proceeded to tell us about her life as it related to the film (it deals with getting older and life ambitions), and she mentioned that she missed being very ambitious and motivated like she was in her late teens and early twenties. This really struck me because nobody had ever mentioned that to me before. I’m 19 and I am very motivated on the things I want to do- my pipe dream is to be a screenwriter and I work on my scripts daily with little to no foreseeable hope of them being made into anything, but I still enjoy the process because it feels like my purpose. Ever since I talked to that woman, I try to stay motivated and ambitious every day, and I will throughout the years now that I know it can fade.

I guess I think that we should all remember what it feels like to be just starting out with life and how everything is a challenge that can be tackled. Who knows if I’ll ever sell a single script, but I’ll keep working on them because deep down I truly think something will come of it. Start what you want and believe it will come to something even if you’re surely deluding yourself.

Talk in person and end the logistical mix ups. One of the first things that can make relationships better is to make it habit of only using texting to have day to day conversations and not to talk about big issues or problems and concerns. The texting mix ups are avoiding the bigger problem of this relationship which is the confusion of where the relationship stands.