What I've learned

I was cleaning up my hard drive last night in preparation for upgrading to Windows Vista ( which is a whole other totally cool story ) when I came across a Word document called "What I've learned" which I thought was worth sharing.

What I've learned :

• We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
  
• No matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you just forgive them for that.
  
• True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
  
• You can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
  
• It's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
  
• You should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
  
• You can keep going long after you think you can't.
  
• We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
  
• Either you control your attitude or it controls you.
  
• Regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.
  
• Heroes are the people who do what has to be done, when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
  
• Money is a lousy way of keeping score.
  
• My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
  
• Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.
  
• Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
  
• Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
  
• Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
  
• It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
  
• No matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
  
• Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
  
• Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other and just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
  
• Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
  
• Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.
  
• Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.
  
• Credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
  
• The people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.