Things I now for sure!

1) If you want to feel better about yourself, join Facebook. You will soon realise how messed up some people’s lives are and you will feel 100 times better about your crappy situation! Just make sure you have popcorn, the drama you are about to encounter is THAT good!

 2) That being said, if you want to feel worse about yourself, join Facebook. Nothing will depress you faster than seeing how amazingly lavish your school buddies are living while you are stuck in your dead-end job. Even if they have 400 children and a cheating husband they will somehow make it seem like that is the life to be living. Don’t feel bad that you are a 27 year old woman with no children or husband living with your mother and you don’t have a house on your name yet. I mean for example now.  

3) If you want to feel all warm and happy inside. Don’t get a boyfriend. Get a dog. Nothing will make you happier than a puppy will. 

 

See? Looking at these pics, don't you feel happier already?

 4) Exercise makes you feel energised… funny how that works hey? You go to the gym for a work out and you end up feeling more energised, yet you sit at work for 8 hours and you’re exhausted by the end of your day.

5) Friends will come and go, but boyfriends are forever! Psyche! Sadly, they both come and go. The trick is finding friends very early on in your life so that by the time they grow up and realise you are a horrible person they are stuck with you. I met my best friend, Ziningi, when I was 5. I have so much dirt on her from the first few years of our friendship, that she wouldn’t dare leave me now! 

6) Nothing will make you feel older than going to a night club in your late 20’s. Geez, forget the night club, the fact that I just mentioned that I am in my late twenties makes me feel old. 

7) A good hair day will make you feel like the sexiest woman on earth! Even if you are wearing granny panties! 

8) Traveling internationally is a bug! And it does bite! Its a good bite though. It makes you want to see more and experience different things. Makes you excited to interact with people from different cultures and backgrounds and try their cuisine. I think the government should subsidise international travel at least once in a person's life. (Problem may come in where once we've left S.A we wouldn't want to come back home)

9) Crying at night makes you look ugly in the morning! If you can avoid it, try not to cry yourself to sleep. Actually, crying anytime in the day makes you look ugly. Your eyes go all red and your nose starts running. (It's like your eyes and nose are in competition to see who can excrete the most fluids) Im planning on having my tear ducts removed for this very reason. Girl needs to look her best at all times. Aint nobody got time for tears!

This is what you look like to others while crying! 

Funny enough, having a good cry is sometimes all you need to feel better again. Ok, so maybe ignore what I said about not crying, just remember not to cry yourself to sleep at night. 

Don't let any-one tell you they look cute when they cry! It's not possible!

 10) You will not get along with everyone you meet! Sadly, as nice as you are and as kind-hearted as you may be, not everyone is going to like you. The trick is not to let it get to you. And this seriously is a trick... something you will need to learn. There will forever be people who will not like your personality and your face and your dress sense... and thats fine. They are entitled to their opinion. Even if their opinion is wrong! *insert Jacob Zuma laugh here* It used to bug me when people disliked me, even if I hated them they needed to like me. Why? Because I am so likeable DAMNIT! Then I grew up I suppose, and now when I encounter people who dislike me based on things they believe to be true (which isn't) I stick my imaginary middle finger up and shrug it off! When people dislike me for a valid reason, I still give them my imaginary middle finger! You cannot please every-one you meet... you are not chocolate!

Sooo... that's me. Those are the things I know for sure. So you see, being in your late 20's isn't that bad you learn things. I also have a list of things I don't know for sure... and yes, that list is a lot longer!