User blog comment:One Singular Sensation/I am horrible at picking out titles/@comment-3083473-20120212183506/@comment-2219055-20120212184640

I agree with 1, 2, 5, 17, 18, 32, and 36.

As for number four, I'd like to quote the movie Little Miss Sunshine. *ahem*

''Marcel Proust was a French writer. He was a total loser. Never had a real job, unrequited love affairs, gay. And he spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads, but he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. He gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, because they made him who he was. All those years he was happy was a total waste, because he didn't learn a thing. So if you fast-forward until you're in college, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. High school, those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.''

I've been through a lot in my life. Not all of it was good, but it made me wiser because I learned from it. I learned not to be lazy, I learned to take things seriously, and I learned to care.